Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-04
MARRIAGE IN FUTURE.
Will Woman Wed Then to Get a Good Cook ?-Ihe
Possibilities of Such State of Affairs.

themselves are charry about giving up
| an independent income to marry a man
who, perhaps. earns less.
Il remember the case OF 4 young wo-
| man who u good many years ago held Il
government Office III Washington at 4
yearly salary OF $1,000. In the same de-
partment was young man who got
| only $1.410.
THE two fell in love ard wanted 20
marry, which meant that one or the
other had to give up his or her office as
| the rules of the service believe. forbid
that husband and wife shall be employ
| ed Mt the same time III the same de-
partment.
BY using influence, the young NO
man managed to have her hancc put
into her place, which SHE resigned, ana
the pair were married ana lived Oh the
incon" which once had been hers alone.
and which the man never increased.
"A good many years later he died,
and his widow, unproy idcd for, and
with 10 pull 10 get back her old job.
was up against a problem Of beginning
at the foot of the ladder, when past
middle life, To support herself. 1t is
such cases as this which scare off som"
women from marrying and incite so
miny others To lit themselves for &C.
onomic Independence"
II was interested to learn from thu
statistics Of the national commissioner
OF education that in She three years
from 1889 TO 1902 the increase i'll the
number Of college women was 1871 per
cent, IS against IN Increase Of 50 per
cent. Of mon.
Assuming that mar iaee is on the
decline or has been for thc last decade
or so, ma turc is gOinS 10 resent his I'M
natural order of things sooner or later
ana eventually there viii E'- conditions
under which women may marry AMI
yet maintain their economic indepen-
dencc."
"MranWhile do you think il is true
that women are crowdinE men out Of
The money-mHking occapations?'
ION the whole. no. Some women may
haze driven some men out Of some oc-
cnpations. but every time a woman
gets work il does not mean that neccs-
sarily some one man is pushed out Of
that place
FOR instance, the proportion Of
school teachers ana principals in the
TO b., and many persons believe that
the women do the ncttcr work. Their, |
too in the majority of the low priced
occupations, whore employees are re-
cruited from the lower social ranks |
women greatly predOmind;c.
But look at the other side of the |
question.
The most famous .lressmakers and |
body who can afford it employs, pre-
fcrably, a man cook and displaces :.
waiIress to make way for a butler in
the hotel, and higher grade boarding
houses only men walters are wanted.
Then the many recent inventions
have increased tremendously the num-
Der of bread winning occupations open
TO men. More than 1.Uo1 go men. am
told, are employed by electrical con-
Germs alone.
Therefore, if woman drives man by
her cheaper labor gu. Of certain Occu-
pationa, il is only because there are !
other occupations which he alone can |
take up, and i'll the case of the higher |
occupations and The professions il |
would Seem TO be a question Of The sur
vival of the fittest
1T must be admitted that woman is
fast catching up with man in her ability
as Il wage Garner. and that the transition
al process through which Sh. has been |
passing from an unpaid laborcr to one
who must be reCkoned with on something
Ike an equal money basis shows plainly
that she has made and will continue TO
make a steady effort in the direction OF
economic independence"
Does not upward movement not indi-
cate that in time woman will surpaSS
man in many lines OF work?'
Il would hardly say il. 1t certainly
does mean. though an upSetJin@ Of old
fashioned ideas as to what constitutes Il
wom;n's work, and. perhaps. Il different
adjustment Of IN" work of some men and
Scmc women. both married and single"
IF the present ratio Of the increase in
college women keeps on indcfinitclD is il
not going TO be difficult for n large per |
centagc of women TO find conCrnial |
mates? Will not the teacher Of Greek IL. |
Obliged to marry a chef or 4 man miliner
If she would enjoy welded bliss"
Now. for mercy'S sake, don't ask me |
to solve any matrimonial riddlcS." said ,
Mrs. Gait, with deSpairing wave of the |
hand Il am not Il matrimonial prophet.
There is no telling what may happen |
In the old days highly educated and quite
distinguished mon thought they had n
treasure when they secured wife who |
knew how 10 cook well, to get IN Il fine
dinner unadcd, and. apparently, they
were perfectly cnntcnted with the part