, 1905-01-25
Wednesday, January rs, 1905.
Feminine
Snapshots
Object Lesson on How to
Spoil a Man

Lately | spent an hour in the COM
pany of Il mother and her sixteen-year-
old son, 1t would be truer to say "a
aixteen-year-oid son and his mother"
!or the son was sit there. The hour
was a distressful one. The mother was
rather a brainy woman, lively and
pleasant, but she was just too in
tellectually lazy to exercise her brains,
so let them rust. AT the same time she
was the typical fool mother who makes
n door mat of herself for her children.
The fool mother calls this affection,
which it is not. 1t is Stiffness. | tried
to draw out the mother in talk, but
that brassy youngster would butt in"
every minute and force himself in the
foreground. He contradicted his moth
err. told her she could not have in the
house something she had n fancy for
and instructed her in matters she had
known all about before he was born.
Worst of all, that foolish woman weak
ly settled back and let him take the
lead. She ever seemed to have a kind
of pride in the ill bred boy, as if to
say, See what a splendid, superior
creature | have given to the. world!'
The cold faEt was that the Lac meet not
a bit superior to the average youth of
his age, only conceited, impertinent and
extremely offensive to almost every
body but his mother, who was directly
responsible for his bad qualities. She
was breeding into her son a contempt
for the whole feminine sex. No boy
can possibly respect a mother who lets
him boss her in that way, and if a man
respects not his own mother, then what
woman will he respect in the whole
course of his life? The woman who
panders to masculine vanity is guilty
OF a grave wrong. 1t is the common
grievance of our sex that men look on
women as inferior. How can they do
otherwise when brought up by fool
mothers? The wise, strong willed. no.
BILE mother who enforces respect from
her IONS is the one that builds for the
future of her sex.
In wealthy families wages for a
skilled woman cook range from $40 to
500 a month, with usually a cooks
helper kept in addition. The cook has
a good home and no expense except for
clothing. There are now training
schools in all our large cities where a
woman may in a short time learn thor
oughly the science and art of cookery.
The average pay of a woman teacher
in the United States is $40 a month
during seven to ten months in the year.
with nothing doing to earn money dur
ing the other two months. Who would
not be a cook?
Miss Ida Galbreth. Il public school
teacher of Columbia City. Ind, has re-
ceived from President Roosevelt a let
ter of thanks and his photograph for
defending him in ringing words against
attacks made on him in a public speech.
Blessed be the oma who does
things and makes no fuss!
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Lately Il woman who has made a ia.
nous of her own married
life made a violent and silly attack
violent attacks are always silly-on the
going out of girls to work in stores
and shops instead of staying at home
and learning to cook. Her objection
was that such work made girls unfit
for matrimony. Such stuff makes one
tired. Unless the girls went out to
work how could they get anything tic
cook at home?
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Secretary of Agriculture Wilson re
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