The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-24

fashion is the chief aim of existence. and even to vaule her husband in &C., cordance with the amount of money he can afford to give her for extrava- gance.
 Nor is this all An idle woman's heart is the devils workshop, and the epitome of all that Is disgus.. is the type of flirt that Is bred by the board ing house. You may find her in every one In the land--a poor. weak, vain. frivolous woman who is disloyal to the bread she eats that she complains to other men that the honest, hard working man who is slaving to sup port her Is not worthy of her and does not understand her. Such a women never notices her husband except to vent some tart witticism on him at the boarding house table, and as you watch her ogling other men and coquetting with brainless little counter jumpers you are filled with pity as well as aver sion, for you know that she would have made a decent, sensible. respec- table woman If she had lived in her own home and had plenty of work to do.
 Laxiness Helps to Make Boarders. Why do women board? Because they are lazy. They are not willing to roll
 up their sleeves. fguratively speaking. and do their part toward making home as they expect their husband to
 do his toward making a living. If they have any trouble with servants the first thing they do is to store the
 household lares and penates and fly to boarding house. This Is not only
 cowardly, but dishonest Few men
 marry for the privilege of continuing
 to board. They expect their wives to
 keep house and make comfortable home, and when a woman fails to do
 this she has defaulted on her part of
 the marriage contract. Of course the servant question is given as an excuse for this hegira of women away from | their own homes and into boarding houses and hotels, but this apology is valid only in the case of invalids. In these days of modern conveHienocs there is no reason why any healthy woman can't do her own homework. | with such help as she can get, and
 when one refuses to do it 1t is be. cause she prefers to sit up in rock ing chair and talk scandal in a board | ing house to making her husband com- | fortable and happy.
 Children Who Have no Home. | As for raising children in a hotel or
 boarding house. it is a crime that ought | to be actionable by law, and women
 must have neither heart nor
 conscience who are willing to do such
 a thing. The little waifs of the streets
 without home or uplifting home in- | fuences, are not more unfortunate than
 are the children of rich people who are
 reared in hotel corridors. and the sa-
 cred memories of whose early lives arc l riding up and down in a hotel cleva-
 tor, or sitting around hotel lobbies lis- | tening to the smutty stories of sporty | ladies and gentlemen.
 The most needed reform in this coun-
 try is the return of families to indi- | vidual homes instead of herding to- l gether in hotels and boarding houses.
 It would do more for the abolition of
 divorce, the suppression of immortality. | and the advancement of child culture
 than anything else in the world, and
 it is earnestly to be hoped that the | husbands of the country will form | themselves into a home keeping league
 for the reformation of wives and the | cure of the boarding house habit.