, 1907-10-21

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items and from 1t her sphere of iphu-
ence Is EXTENDED over ali the eartn.
In IN first analysis the woman
should be a good housekeeper, a cneer,
Lul wIie, an attentive mother II an
agreeable hostess; yet none OF THESE
IS inconsistent with Il certain amount
ot work outsIue the home.
! Inc new spapeIs, the magazines, tho
essay4sLs and u great many men dis
cuss with much affected wisdom the
corey divorce case and hold that
while the steel trust magnate a
mingled in large affairs and progressed
the wife of his early manhood 4
stood still or perhaps stagnated meal
ally and physically, and they blame
the woman. Yet these very same par
tisans are the very first to protest
when married women make some ell
fort, through their clubs, to broaden
their mental horizon and keep pace
with their lords and masters. Many
of them, in fact, are already so far
ahead of their husbands that the mon
try to keep 1t a family secret.
1t will be said it is the extremists
among club women who prejudice the
entire cause. Perhaps SO, but that
fact does not destroy the possible use
fitness of social and benevolent organ.
izations conducted by sane and wo.
manly women.
Yet is occurs to the Tribune that
with club women are doing much for
mankind in general. much to amelio'
rate the evils OF child labor, intern.
perance, illiteracy and gambling are
contributing a great deal toward the
health and beauty of cities and to the
PRONUNCIATION of higher ideals gener-
ally, there is still something they can
do for themselves.
One thought at this time occurs to
the Tribune.
Men need, demand and usually en-
joy, one day Of rest in seven.
The horses upon the street and on
the farm are treated with the same
consideration, but the women, the
housewives. the servant girls, that is
different. Their alleged Sunday is a
delusion and is a day of drudgery in
deed. But there is a ray of hope.
Two weeks 6 n Cheyenne man
and wife, who have always had Dig
Sunday dinners, declared they had re.
formed and would henceforth have
their Sunday dinner Saturday evening
and make as much of a holiday for the
family on Sunday as the circumstances
would permit. We thought hat an ex.
ceedingly sensible plan.
We find that others are thinking
along the same lines. For instance, a
Spokane paper says:
THE plight of the housewife who
finds herself, despite all efforts to the
contrary, %wriggling around in the pew
Sunday morning, ~nervously opening
and shutting the hymnal and surrep'
titiously taking a glance at the chate'
laine watch every little while, and WAC
dashes into the Sunday school room
before the golden text has been re.
cited or the Offering taken up andIpulls
her Willie by the arm, hoarsly whis'
pering to him to 'hurry-all because
the chicken is in the oven, the sour
in the pot and the custard in the ice
box, and time is flying-is about to be
relieved in one Mississippi valley city.
Seventy members of a prominent
Methodist church have banded togeth'
er in a determination to eat no more
Sunday dinners. so that the busy, wor'
rying housewives may have time to
curl their hair before going to church
and to bring Willie home %decently at
ter Sunday school.
Just how the scheme will work re-
mains to be seen. but that some such
movement was necessary is conceded.
Sunday is mans day of rest, but il
finds woman hustling around like the
proverbial chicken that has just been
denuded of its Uranium. There are a
after, not so much because 1t is Sun
day as because the family expects a
large dinner and the family pastor ex'
poets to see her hot and Hurried face
rising above the pew rail at the allot.
ter hour. Heretofore the busy and
accomplishing housewife has done the
best she could n said never a word,
but deep down in her heart of hearts
in that one church where the anti
Sunday dinner club is now in full
swing she ic dOlhtlaSS raolly and trulv
thankful to see Sunday come around,
for h first time in her life."
A greet many Tribune readers lie.
member what Sunday meant at home
particularly if they lived in the coun.
try or a small town.
Regardless of the season, scorching
hot or bitter cold, Sunday was com.
r. Vor, 0noI VShSa