The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08
By Margaret E. ssnsster.

BY M0r40Eet Es S0m80tehs
 JCopyright, 1906, By Joseph B. Bowles)
 when man stays at home from business, either because he Is i'll or because he Is taking a holiday. he is very apt to remark, benignantly, that his wife has great deal of time on her hands. Should the man be a re- tired merchant, broker or professional person who has decided that he has had enough of money making and that he is entitled to enjoy himself for the rest of his days, his wife Is very likely to hear a good deal about the ease in which she has spent the years that have been to him ceaseless round of erubbing. In the latter case. the wife is fortunate if she does not often have occasion to wish that her lord would again bctake himself to the counting room e. the ofiice.
 A man in the house Is very pleas ant companion in the space legitimate ly his own. One likes to see him eat his dinner; unless one is determined ascetic, one is not averse to the scene of his pipe or cigar; and ones eve ning's at home are much happier when the man of the house is domestic and does not rush off to see another man, or to spend the time at his club.
 In brief, there are times and sea- sons when men understands women and women understand men, but an unoc- cupied man adrift in the home all day long is sure to be something of dis ciplinA to his wife and daughters. 1T he do not interfere and interrupt and give advice and criticize, and inspect the marketing and the accounts. he probably sits about ostentatiously with q magazine or a newspaper ayawns, fidgets and wonders how under the sun women endure the monotony of their existence
 We will suppose that woman' neither more nor less busy than wo- man ir general, goes away for an outing and leaves her husband de- tached from other business to keep house and take care of the children in her absence. On her return she will discover that the house has lost a portion of it's immaculate and shin ing tidiness, that the children have degenerated into chronic ill-behavior. and that the maids are only with held from giving warning by their loyalty to her. The man in his turn if he be frank, will admit that his wife's routine of duties, obligations and economies, varied by incessant in- terruptions from the door bell. is enough to fairly swamp the energies of the average man.
 The woman who is not busy is so rare that she ought to be labeled and exhibited in museum as an obsolete specimen of the daughters of Eve. The woman who IS at once. busy ana fussy, who makes q point of exploiting tho fact that she can never catch up with her work, who is hurried, worried and preoccupied because sne is cumbered with care, is to be met in almost every house on our block The excep- tional woman who being busy keeps her frets and cares Tn the background, who is serene and tranquil and &C., complishes things without haste and without waste, is the finest type of American womanhood. When we meet her we acknowledge that we are in the pfesence of queen regnant. She manages her affairs, they do not man age her. She may sometimes be tired, but she is tired to good purpose and has earned the sleep that refreshes the toiIer.
 man may inquire what are wo- men busy about?" some of them it may be replied are very busy in mak- ing men comfortable We arc not now discussing those independent bachelors who have established them- selves in apartments of somewhat for lorn luxury, aloof from woman's touch and presence. but of the great ma jority of men who go to business every morning and come home every night. They are fathers, husbands. sons and brothers, and their clothing is brushed and repaired, their rooms are swept end dusted. their beds are made and their tables are spread for them by the provident hands or the women they love.