New-York tribune., 1908-09-17
AF INTEREST roWbMEN
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THE HAPPIEST WOMEN
America a Paradise for WiUes, Saus
DR.. liked.

The American husband Is the best IN the vovl.
and his wife the happiest woman IN the world a.
cOrdng 70 the Rev. Dr. Charles T. Aked. pastor of
the Fifth Avenue aptist Church. Dr. Aked IA.
an article on the subject in the current number az
The New idea Magazine and makes IL quite sv,
dent therein that he does not share the opinions az
those who think that men. Americans as well an
foreigners. have monOpOlized good many OF tba
good things OF life. Not content with saying that
the American wife is the happiest woman IN the
world. he asserts that she has the most favored
lot which has yet fallen TO human beng'-usn
woman, presumabIy-with more TO make her
happy than any other creature on the face OF ths
earth" Going into particulars. Dr. AkeG says oe
the American woman:
she has less drudgery and more leisure than
any other woman She has more money 20 spend
and better things which TO spend g. She has
more freedom. independence. more power OF inita-
tive and Of self-direction. She is person os IN
portance-and she knows It. She quietly assumes
that she Is somebody. The assumption Is war
ranted IN fact and conceded in practice. TIA
American Is. up to the present moment
Gods best piece OF work. and there are no visible
indications OF outside improvements upon ths
product
Comparing the condition Of women IN foreign
countries with that OF the OF America, class
for class Dr. Aked finds that. matching the worst
the Old World against the worst OF the New, thu
New is better. He has seen woman and a COW
yoked together to a plough, the man holding ths
road with a basket OF frewood strapped her
back A man walked beside her with his hands IA
his pockets. smoking cigar! The man saw a de-
sirabIe log the roadside, cOndescendsd 70 taks
his hands out OF his pockets picked II up, placed e
on the TOP Of the wOman's load and continued his
lordlv way He has SEEN on Sunday morning. q
woman wearing mans trousers carrying a hOd oc
bricks I'D the ladder 70 the brick setter nan.
working UP above He has frequently seen a
woman and a dog drawing cart along ths street.
TC-r- -fra1s
cart containing clothes going 70 or from tne wash
A man sat in the cart handling the retns.
ComparfnS the positions OF women IN the mors
comfortably placed classes. DR.. Aked paints Dct.
ure which sounds strangely familiar the pennt-
less wife OF the rich man being not wholly
known IN this country.
.~yyhen q rich woman" he says. 'or. rather.
very poor woman wife Of rich man-has 70 ask
her husband for every shilling she wants. and
must account for every penny OF It, her lot may
not seem TO be quite as dreadful as that OF tbs
Iaborfng women Just cited, but it is not essen
tally different. When woman in a splendid posi-
ton in society bursts into tears and in q mo-
rneut Of abandon cOnfesses that FOR many years
she has not been allowed any money az al IN
greater sums than a half-crown go cents) for cab
fares and tips her clothes and everything else
bafnr maid for BY her husband by check, the ob-
iect of the system being 70 deprive her OF every
vestge OF freedom and keep her In servlle suo1ec-
ton 10 him. the story is 1ncredioe anu hnpossios
only ii happens to be true
DR. Aked thinks that Jill Is good as Jack IN
this country a necessary outcome in his mind OF
the alleged equality between Jack and his master.
In other countries he says. where the king oul-
les the noble and the noble bullies the squire.
where the squire buIlies the professional man. tns
nrofsssional man bulHes the tradesmsn. and thu
tradesnan buIies the laborsr, IL may be taken fos
a fact that all viii bully the woman
The standard OF sexual morality DR.. Aksd finds
TO be higher In this country than IN old lands,
.no+vtthstandfnz the ten Thousand divorce scsn+
daIs and all the headlines OF sensation loving
press