The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-30

lived had his woman" sometimes
his wimmvn'"
Every Groonlaudish Esquimo that
over CrawlCd into his Iuhbit.hurru of Il
snow hut ana squuttcd down to
meal Of walrus hlubhcr In his sculskin
pnjamas that had mover boon washed
since the seal himself took his last
plunge into the Icy waters of the Are.
tic-cvcry filthy ono of them had "his
womau,"
Every degraded Tcrradclmcgan
savage that ever sat down to II dinner
of roasted snake or enjoyed II half.
cooked horse steak that the crows had
abandoned every one of them had
"his womuni"
My woman is the most stubborn
relic of barbarism that still clings to
otherwise civilized mon. You can hear
1t every Saturday afternoon ON the
streets Of almost any town in the
state of Nebraska, the state that
boasts of its advanced civilization and
the lowest per cent of illitCraCy of any
state in the union.
Some of the men who speak of their
wives in this obsolete fashion may not
mean II that way, They say my
woman" because other men do and II
seems hard TO say my wife"
why hard? Is she your wife whom
YOU love and respect. Then why not
say so? "My wife,
Is she Mrs Somebody? Then why
not say so? That is even better taste.
Is she not your wife not Mrs Some
body? Then YOU may be excused for
calling her by that name my woman"
But most distressing of all, II Is to
hear some clustering sort of man who
has loaded up with half cargo of
bug-juicc talking ON the street corner
to a group of men about that fine
woman of his" How she milks seven
COWS morning and night gets dandy
meals three times day, kcCpsh four
children looking slick and clean, ard
even finds time to help him with the
spring blowing and corn picking in
the fall, so he'll have time every few
days TO go to town and get jag
Go with me to the home of that
kind of woman to have" and four
times out of five ! will show you Il
! worse case of slavery than ever GX.
listed among the negroes of the south
IA white slaVery-a voluntary slaV-
! cry made possible by the strongest of
all Chains-materna love
Read the heart stories Of such wo-
men-but you cannot; the unCNpcri-
enced can never delve the depths.
ooh, would never, could never stand
1T for a minute if it was not for the
,hildren-the children, they must have
q home"
There you have it in nutshell.
There are men so mean, so low, that
having forged chains upon the woman
they professed to love, so strong that
her nature is powerless to break them,
and having demanded of her twice the
amount of work her frail strength can
endure, they will stand around in a
half-ntoXicated condition and boast
/ about it. Compared to such 4 man--
and | know of such--the character of
Simon Lagrec seems quite gentle
manly.
No woman with children and a
house to take care of should be per
mitted by an able-bodied husband to
work in the fields!
Don't keep a slave and call her
your woman" Make life as pleasant
as you can for her whom you call
your wife,"
DO you know that the largest per
cent of insane women are farmers
wives? There is monotony,
dTudgery.
Fellow agriculturalists, are you do
ing what you can to make the country
ore attractive, better place to live
in?
If not, wake up! 1t is for your own
interests to do so, and for the inter-
O t. also of those you hold most dear!
Uncle Oscar.
'"d the funniest thing about it to
. !. l'0t TNcle Oscar SEES all that
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