Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-12-27
WOMAN s CRITICS.
Inose VINO Criticise American wone,
Prefer Her to Her European
Sisters.


The relative positions of me,
women in wedlock have been ro,,,,,.
in lately for some rather arbitrary
pretations, often given out with con,.,
era Die acrimony, hut thar generutio,, I'm
heed them, since they are airaasti
against Wen established social ana a,.l
mic custom, seems unlikely. Indeed ~
homilies lose much of their effect -, 'te
the fact thar the classes os wivos I'm
under the critical MICROSCOPE H. ru u.
represent even considerable minori,, ~
the population. Any OF the larger c,,,n1
OF the country will show several H.,
sands OF more or less idle women. nnn-
u tleih llVlng IN apartment hotels. who
frlyof away their time most discredit,If
and who ire justly to be charged VIII
selhshness that is superlative. bur Ia
aggregate but few comnared +o -
millions OF American women who ,so
living toilsome lives of exactinp bo,,',
keeping and motherhood all over ~;
broad land. Even the much ,,ndenn,'1
city flats harbor hundreds of thousa,da
OF such self-sacrifcing women. the ~
ism OF whose daily and hourly deyotion
70 o1ttlmes uninspiring duty, not only
mas no chronlcier. but it, in fact, TO-
nored by those who professionally ne
braid the American woman. ana M, ui
ways appreciated even by those in b,,.
immediate encourage who benefit Inv bo,
ueVouon. The critic whose obServot;o,,l
are focused on the class which comm:t.'
its eXtfayaganees, carries on its Dlensr,.
ings, and INDUCES in its whims win IN
soient ostentation, and whose studias
are limited to this class and variations -
~ would doubtless be surprised to learn
that the marriage of foreigners are 90
much OF failure that as many as thir
" day are sometimes dissolved IN H..
courts of the large cities. Indeed tb'3
failure of marriage among this class bag
reached such an acute stage in the fo,.-
elgn quarters that charity organizations
throughout the country have been ohlirod
70 invoke legislation to control tbe d.
sertlng husband and father. Certairl,,
the unfortunate foreign wives and motL-
ers thus basely bereft of the support ma
counsel OF the men who solemnly suor.,
20 DO their duty by them can testify IN
most cfuel failure of marriage in tbpi,.
cases. Other instances of failnra ~, ~
part of foreigners have TO do with chitI
iapor. and so terrible and far-reacbino
are the effects of this prostitution of the
chlld body, mind and morals thar
niighly eHorts are making to bring legiS-
iatlon to bear on the employment of
chlIdren, and thus free these upfortu-
mates from the exactions of cruel mo-
ents. Nt"e' par
The view of old world marriages thar
one hnds among all classes in ENGLAND
anu germany, Tor example, is not such
as to beget any hopefulness about tho
acceptation of the old world ideal as
model here, for in it the subordination
OF the twoman is SO thoroumhpoinr
that even the wives in those connt,ieS
now Ieel constrained to begin revolt
surely 1t would not be wise to barl
pack to an order of matrimonial living
f en IS itself beginning the inevitable re-
FORM 70 bring it into conformity with
twentieth century social ideals.
NO competent critic would judge the
english nation by the men of little in
telect and huge sefishness who make
up the House of Lords, for they are the
spoiled darlings of wealth and privilege
ana negligible quantities when the real
men OF England, with their characters
TICS and habits of life, are weighed in
the balance, and it is no more lust 70
proclaim as representative tile few tbou-
sands of giddy American women who
spend their time solely in an unworthy
pursuit of Disqualification They are
also the spoiled products of a too induI-
gent environment. The critics of the
American woman, especially those of her
own sex who slap her with both hands
IN their caustic comments, may as well
face the fact that emancipation in this
country from the conditions which have
fettered her for centuries, has too much
Roadway to be stayed. The women would
never permit any reactionary movement
and for that matter neither wotld the
American man, for whatever her short
comlngs he prefers her to the more
servile and self-sacrificing women of 9th
er lands, and he holds TO this preference
although she herself sometimes takes
matrimonial flyers in the coronetted
ranks of foreigners. The American mans
attitude is fairly represented in the care
less solution of a domestic question sug-
gested recently by an American father
IN good circumstances IF the wife
feels thai she wants to go out into the
world and accomplish things, why all
the family has to do is to abandon house
keeping and live in an apartment hotel"
This easy solution would hardly be feast
Bile outside large cities, but it fairly wen
illustrates the attitude Of the American
man toward his womenkind. and it is an
attitude which offers an insurmountahle
obstacle to those who wish to make the
American wife over after the standards
OF a century or two ago.