Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-08-11
THE VACATION QUESTION.

allows IOWA. re for the
wife and chlIu. while tn.
husband remains at nome at his
work. Rev. Charles A. Eaton of tn
Madison Avenue Baptist church is
| quoted as saying:
Man is none too good under the
best circumstances, and the best cir
c,mstances are when his family d.
around. Consequently do not be
lieve that husband and wife SHOULD
separate during the vacation period.
Vacations are necessary The ole
saying, "All work and no play make
Jack dull boy" is very true. But
the husband and wife should enjo.
the vacation together, if it is posi-
BILE, In the true marriage relation the
husband and wife are partners, but
in New York, alas, the husband Is
often the Garner and the wife the
spender.
While he is toiling away in the
city his wife is doing" the society
stunt" at some summer resort. Near
ly always she lives or tries to live
beyond his means. To buy hel
gowns, keep her amused and give hel
a good time his nose is kept at the
grindstone. This is unjust. Husband
and wife should be partners. II the
husband has to stay in the city and
work, the wife should stay with him
What is sauce for the gander is OF
should be sauce for the goose.
The normal man is domestic in his
tastes. He is lonely without hi
family. He may welcome his loneli
ness for few days. but if he is nor
NAL he will be glad to have his wife
back inside of a week.
Husbands may sing "My Wife's
Gone to the Country, Hooray, Hoo
ray" but they don't mean it. 1t is
simply bluff. When a man ant
woman marry they agree to live to
gether and there are enough time.
i when they will have to be separated
without deliberately planning to liv,
apart during the vacation period
Foolish theories have been advanced
by some writers that the wife need.
a vacation from the husband-that {
separation in the summer is goot
thing. Such theories are all wrong.
Normally speaking the ideal vaca
tion is one spent by the husband ant
wife together in the country.
change of scene is nearly always ben
eficial, but life at the fashionable
summer resorts is apt to do more
harm than good. A vacation to b<
worth while must recreate the spiri
as well as the body.
The most common excuse for tn,
separation of husband and wife IL
the vacation time is the children
Children need outdoor life, to be sure
but parents should remember tina
they don't exist only for them. TIL.
children should be partners In TIL
family Just the same as the husban,
and wife Their sense of obligation
should be Just as great"
Speaking the same subject, Magis
trate Daniel E. Finn said,
This business of breaking up th'
family and the home for the entir,
summer has become more than /,
fad-it is almost menace to tn
community. can remember the tim
when vacation of two weeks in tn
country seemed enough for anybody
Then it got to be month, tw
months, all summer. Nowadays som
wives and daughters are not satisfie
unless they go away in May and sta
until. October.
Go along Fifth avenue and see tn
houses of the very rich. Some {
them are closed in April, or eve
earlier, and stay closed until Noven
ber. The husband lives at his clni
And there are plenty of other wive
who would stay away as long as the
could afford it.
The home, the family, are the bu
warks of our institutions. Witho,
their kindly influences the natio
would not long survive. 1t would b.
come degenerate, effete, weak. B,
there are number of New York w
men-and their number isn't gettin
any less-who think they must be
the fashion and go away to SON
summer resort, wear lot Of fiji
clothes, play bridge whist and e
candy. gossip about their neighbol
and criticise everybody else's belon
ings, or else they think themselvs
miserable creatures.
But what about the poor husbal
at home? He didn't marry Just
become a punched meal ticket.
doesn't mind being the meal ticke
but he likes the meal in his HON
where he can enjoy it, too. You tai
the average New Workers. feelin
when his family goes away for tt
summer. Does he begin to shout IN
wife's gone to the country" and thu
does he add "Hooray, hooray?"
Not for a minute. He general
goes home the sourest looking in,
vidual on earth. He's cross at ever
body and everything.
believe that families should n
be separated in summer any mo
= than in winter. The wife's place
by her husbands side. The daught
should be with her father. OF cour
there are exceptions to all rules. B
as general rule don't think wiy
need a summer in the country a
more than the husbands do.
Pm for the New York homes fir