The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-02-16
THEY WILL DEMAND REGULAR
WAGES FOR WIVES.

WAGES FOR WIVES. /
Happy thought! A woman's club of
Chicago has hit upon the idea of hav-
ing the Illinois Federation Of women's
Clubs to demand Of the legislature a
law requiring husbands to pay their
wives regular salary, says the Dallas
News whether such salaries are to
be demanded IN addition to the enor-
nous sums taken out of the breeches
of the husbands and otherwise extract
ed is not stated. but better regulation
OF any kind is always in order
Nnetenths OF. The wives Of the
country are home women, declares the
author OF this proposition, ana have no
property rights whatever The woman
who has property rights is protected
by the laws, but the home woman is at
the mercy OF her husbands generosity.
The husband can dictate just how
mu,h she hail spend. II the husband
wants to buy a pair Of expensive
trousers. he can do 80 without consult
ing his wife. but If the wife wears the
trousers the husband reserves the
right to regulate the cost. Manifestly
this is unfair. Il takes the spirit of
independence out of woman. say
these ladies' and they argue well
They admit for arguments sake,
thar she may get along very well in
the home, where her interests and
those of the selfish brute she lives with
are in common, and where he must be
decently liberal to be comfortable. But
without money OF her own to spend as
she pleases. and. above all, without
absolute independence of her husbands
domination, she never can be at her
best and lead her fellows. The Kan
sas City World considers the argu-
ments OF these ladies aGd grows un-
fair and ungentlemanly over it. 1t is
pngallant enough to add:
She car never so gadding about con
ventions, demanding the emancipation
of women who do not want TO be
smanclpated from that sweet depend
part OF a woman's nature. She can not
cut her hair and split her skirts and
stand before the world as an example
that woman Is equal to man in all
things-not while she must go to her
husband for permission to buy a pair
of half-hose or red cravat Former
ly." urges the author of this proposi-
tion. husbands were held by beauty
and sweet disposition. While those
attributes were commendable, the hus-
baud OF today wants something more
he wants his wife to know who is
mayor" Il would be interesting TO
have on estimate Of the regular salary
supposed to be required by a woman
to enable her 70 know who is mayor
II would be even more interesting to
know why the beauty and sweet dis
position that once held husbands seems
now to be deemed insufficient Pos
gibly the women who demand laws for
the subjugatlon Of their husbands neg
lect TO cultivate the sweet disposition.
Certainly they havea't any sweetness
OF disposition that can be noticed at
th.s distance AS 10 beauty well,
pretty Is as pretty does There is
no beauty that can gild over complain
ing diroontent when women abandon
love and their own natural graces as
their instrument Of power over their
husbands, and resort to laws, they
must see to it that the laws are good
7nd irons
And II this Chicago club has its way
they certainly VIII OF course in due
time man, even the quiet henpecked
husband may demand wages also All
the children now have a wage scale
, II this club succeeds, the wives will be
ready to declare their daily compensa.
tlon. The father and husbands time
may come next But who is he going
TO put his demand up to?