The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-05
WOMEN AS WIVES.
Or. So DDER BELIEVES THEY
vikE HITTER HELPHATES.

In,e IN S,mpathizc WIN Their Husbands
In Their Daily Toll Capable Of Going
Back 10 Self-SuppOrt and Therefore
Trc, WIN Always he We'll Treated,
TIE Rev. John l.. Souddcr, the pastor Of
the First congregational Church, Bergen
and BOYD avenues, Jersey City, preached
lsa' evening on the subject: Business
Womon. DO They Reduce the Number Of
Na~riato, ard Do They mako Good Wive5?"
He aid among other things;
There Is much said in these days about
the new woman but the newest thing
about the modern woman is her taking
tos+e.-ion Of the business world and be-
coming independent of the sterner sex.
OF these industrial women there are be-
tween four and five millions in this country
end their yassage from the domestic sphere
to mercantile careers il making changes
in our social life.
The business woman Of to-day stands
ont in told relief and forms a strong con-
trasr - her sisters who have preceded
her. Nho helives in personal freedom
end self support and refuses to he a mere
apreudaCe to a mere man, a tender to a
masculine steam engine. To-day she is
her own locomotive, and if she marries,
she marries As an equal and not as a de-
pendent.
9Th. question of feminine support must
to answered in one or two ways. Either
the woman must gain. her own livelihood
or become the beneficiary of man. Father
and mother cannot last forever and even
tuaIly support must come outside Of the
ancestral home The young miss Of indie
..,r., I--1. - -. -
says I can Use these and earn my own
bread or, II intellectually inclined, she
gives a toss to her head and says; Women
have brains as we'll as men. | will try
and 500 what pecuniary return the con-
fonts p' my Uranium will bring me-
Herein she differs from the maiden Of
the vast centuries who tried to solve the
problems hy attempting deliberately to
capture a husband and make him pay the
hills. When she succeeded she practically
rave ny her liberty, and too often she be-
came the slave OF man, for money Is might
ana the ruler is usually the one that sup
plies The funds. If she failed in her quest
sNe often felt a. If her life was a failure,
ant trcEbled lest she should be called an
oh maid
-Durrg the long, dark centuries Of the
Tast woman has, generally speaking, been
f'Iheerrlent to man, and her condition has
icon anything hu, enjoyable. Man has
been the unit and woman the cipher.
"Pohlnd US IL barbarian, where woman
fas been the drudge OF man. Even to-day
IN luns and Alg!ers a wife can be bought
forthc price OF a mule, and in India the laws
Of Menu declare hat the wife must be the
slave o. her husband and the widow the
slave oi her eldest son.
Even in England less than twenty-five
year, ago if a man stole a knife and bunch
OF key he got five years of penal servitude
but if he knocked his wife down or kicked
her in the face he was only sent UP for
three months. In ages past man has domi-
reered over woman because might made
right and his strength compared with hers
was in the ratio of 20 to IS.
Woman has often sighed for freedom
but not until thiss stage of human evolution
has woman been able to secure it. In free
America she now has unlimited opportunity
to secure her independence, and obtaining
this she is not so anxious TO marry as she
was formerly. She certainly will not marry
unless assured of considerate treatment.
She will not give up an $500 job for a 5000
man, unless he Is kind and she is very much
in love.
This bachelor maid is proud of her
ability TO support herself and refuses to be
uneqLay yoked with any man, She in
sists upon the omission Of the word obey
IN the marriage ceremony in fact, | dropped
that ursIghtly word out of the rite Of ma tri-
mony many years ago. ] ~sympathize with
this independent spirit of the modern
woman ana 'elieVe she is lar happier IMAM
e ~ ~ heL NrA "no nave preGeoea her.
~" isels helseli 70 nc something more
than . mantrap. She stands erect in the
o aIH on her lhuustflal value ana
snil.ty 10 laaaie her own canoe. she is not
Sms,ug ABOUT ara peTfe'usIly waiting Tor
c iTt.Ler'
ndar these circumstances, of course,
We must expect fewer marriages in pro-
portion to the population. The industrial
tD1.Ln lpDnltp into n y 30 MIA of anon rptn.
iiner r, y, .I ! noa ~ ~, y, IN cmSen wi we
I'M, X ono sd feo,,,r, 81 modarn co an