The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-21
Modern w oman
Pity the Poor American I Husband,
Frenchwoman's Plant Team
sters Think Women Ought to
Vote-Matters Of Moment. :: ::
Are American husbands slaves?

Are American husbands slaves?
A writer in the Paris Matin says so.
Bhe recently visited New York, where
owing to the great reduction in steam
ship rates so many receptive minded
foreigners are now enabled to gather
Impressions of America" Says this
Eealous bluestocking:
''I used to believe that slavery was
abolished, but | learned in New York
shat this is not the case. Helots still
exist in the persons of American hus-
bands" She goes on to tell that from
his infant years, when he is bul.ied
Sy his sisters, to the sweethearting
days, WHEEL his fiancee expects him to
DQuander his substance upon ice cream
and flowers, he is an unprotesting vic
Glm. If the lady is accurate in her
statements the New York Benedict is
as zone sealed for sacrifice" His type
Ia altogether unidentifable elsewhere
The American man is not a mollycod-
die, neither is he milksop, and by the
time the indignant American husband
gets through with the Paris Mathis
baby correspondent she will be better
able to decide whether or not he is an
easy object of subjugation.
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The next time you go out on the
pn4 md hi lon
man urging along his team in language
unrefned don't turn up your nose and
dub him a trough fellow" 1t is a
ease of the bark being worse than the
bite. If you want to cross the street
very often he will at some inconven-
3ence to himself pull up his big team
to let you over, and, just think, at the
last convention of his union, the Unit
@d Transfers of America, a resolution
was adopted asking congress to submit
to the state legislatures an amend
ment to the national constitution for
bidding disfranchisement on account
of sex. 1t will be some time before
Che lawyers or ministers or doctors
aniOn passes a like resolution! Work.
1ngmen are more liberal than any 9TH
er class in advocating larger privileges
Tor women
D. Dr.
In a recent newspaper contest a
prize was offered to the woman who
would set forth the best means for
keeping a husband at home The win
mer Of the prize said that the only way
10 DO so was to make home more
pleasant than the lodge or the saloon"
This seems like begging the question.
THE average wife has not at her COM
atand the same funds for making home
pleasant that lodges and saloons have.
= The man who has a weakness for these
Institutions is more likely to contrib
ute his income to their support than to
that of the home. A woman can't
smile and greet hubby affably when
8he has the awful doubt about the
aeXt months rent and when butchers
and bakers bills are hanging over her
head. We need fewer articles on
"How Women May Make Home Pleas
ant and more on "What Husbands
May Do to Make Home Tolerable"
D. ~
The women of the Episcopal church
made an Offering of $500, 900 at the tri-
ennial general convention in Richmond.
The money is to be used for promoting
mission work. Women have always
been the chief contributors to churches
and missions, yet when it comes to the
3isbursing of the funds the procedure
seems to imply that it takes one quail
3ty Of brain to collect money and an
other quality to spend it. Except when
3he contribution box is passed women
are still expected to keep SILENT in
most churches.
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The ''poor widow il the object Of q
great deal of mawkish sentimentality
A newspaper recently advocated the
pensioning of widows. Aged women
and women with large families OF
children are deserving Of all sympa
Ghy&but young and ablebodied WON
an who sits down and expects her hus
Bands relatives or the public to sup
Dort her merely because she is wild
0w is worth very little consideration
Women, all women, should be SO train
ed that they can support themselves
Then if they are left widows they neeG
he neither poor nor lone if they have
respect enough to get up and hustle
S0P living
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When you get out the winter bed
clothes be sure that Bridget and Moral
get their share. Many a servant in {
family that considers itself kind sleeps
fn cold room without enough clothes
60 keep her warm and then is expected
TO crawl out of bed at daylight to star
the fires. The best way to keep you
maids and get good work out of then
ls to be particular abouR their comfort
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