The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-14
Marriage As It May Be in the Future
Will Woman Wed to Get Good Cook and Have Her Children
BrOusM Up ~ Specialists While She DcVotcs
Herself to Making Money!

A favortte topic OF late with lecturers at
w0men's club meetings has been the rela-
tive position Of men and women in bust
ness life and their wage earning capacity.
The grandmothers Of these lecturers never
thought Of broacf ing such topics at sewing
'bees and quilting parties, for the reason that
the oldfashioned woman was not conspio-
iuous In the business world. When, for in
stanos, B. =. Hamilton Of Saco, Ne, IN 1854,
hired two women clerks 10 walt on the GUS
toners in his dry goods store the town
almost threw fits. For time the store, the
proprietor and the clerks were boyootted.
In that not very distant day women clerks
IN stores were practically unknown, and
The community evidently resented their
lIntroduction-at least the community Of
Maine did. To-day the woman olerk
abounds in almost every State Of the union
and the country is entirely compliment.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. president Of
ehe Rational Suffrage Association, In oom-
amenting on this story remarked that t was
significant Of the change in industrial oOn-
ditions a. relating TO men and women In
the last Nsf century and Of the changes
which might take plaoe in the next fifty
TOars.
Mn. Gait, by the way, was quoted IN
print the other day as declaring, before a
injecting Of Jersey City clubwomen, that
man was being crowded out by woman.
When confronted with this report she said
she didn't mean to convey exactly that
idea.
Possibly said she, @the reported state
ment was the outcome Of a story told
that day. Here Is the story;
Il was dining one day at the house Of
the president Of a well known college.
Several Of his professors were among the
guests. The dinner was 90 good that
could not help congratulating my host
on the possession Of 20 good cook, where
upon be said:
I have had a man cook for a number
of years and he 10 treasure He added:
The lady who Just left the table Is his wife
She Il professor Of Greek in the college.
I meant this story 70 illustrate, a. Il
does, ! think, the fact that II woman IL in
Tading certain avenues Of emplo yment
formsrly occupied solely by man, man,
on the other hand, has taken away from
woman many Of the occupations once
considered peculiarly her own.
Man has taken occupations out Of the
home and put them into factories, and work
IN the home u becoming more and more
specialized. In the old days women made
not only the clothes they and their husbands
and children wore, but 70 some extent the
fabrics represented In the clothes. In
these DAYS, on the other hand. even bread,
cake, pickles and pies are bought outside
OF the home,
sThe ve5y pleasures ofthe oIdtime woman
offered merely more chances TO work
When abe went visiting she took her KNIT ing
OF her sewing along; when visitors dropped
IN upon her ahe never dreamed OF enter
tanning them while her banda remained
idle. Huaking beoe and quilting sociables
also meant more work for the hands.
The housewife OF q century ago had little
~ no leisure, ctrcu instance which aoOOunts
lrgoly for the wage Gaming desire Of 40,
1nany married women today, and for tfi1