Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-01-07
NO CLUB LIFE
FOR Her
Her Place Was at Homo to
Make Her Husband Happy.

No, Miss scriggins. Thank you
very much for asking me to join the
Browning circle. You mean it kindly
l know, and l appreciate the compli-
ment, and l won't deny that there are
passages in his poems-obscure lines
that | don't seem to get the mean
ing of better than anybody ever met,
but l am down on women belonging to
clubs.
Il am conscientiously opposed TO it,
think it is just perfectly awful for
woman TO even want to do such a
sinful Thing as vote, and that's what
belonging to clubs leads to. be-
lieve that a woman's proper sphere is
in her home, and that her highest duty
is to make that home a place of peace
and quiet and rest That's the reason
that | devote all my energies to my
family, and, if l do say it, if there were
more women like me, our poor, dear
president wouldn't have to be so wor-
ried about the country.
Going? Well, good-by, and remem-
Der that there's one woman left who
devotes all of her time to making a
happy home
20, is that you, John? And time it
was, I'm sure. 1t is nearly seven
O'Clock, and you know that I always
expect you home at $50 o'clock sharp
Precious little encouragement l get
for shaving myself to death trying to
make you a comfortable home, when
you are lettering on your way and ca
rcusing with your boon companions
What is that you say? There was
jam in the street, and the cars were
blookaded? o, of course
Look at your feet, John Carson,
look at your feet. You didn't wipe
them on the floor mat, and you have
tracked in lot of dust Haven't
told You million times never to dare
to come in without cleaning your
shoes first, and for PHYS sake watch
What you are doing. You are pulling
that table cover all crooked and muss-
ing up the magazines that l had to
straighten out after you this morn
ing.
John Carlson, l believe you have
been drinking. Just a glass of beer
| knew it; | knew it, ! have always
said that you would end in drunk
ards grave. Don't think to fool me by
saying it was only one glass. | know
it was at least six. You can never
say, like SO many men do, that you
We're driven to drink by your wife, for,
II ever there was a woman who did
her duty by her family, and spent her
life trying to make them a happy
home, it is I, though precious little
credit or appreciation | get for it,
What is that? You have gotten "a
letter from your Aunt Jane, and she
is passing through the city, and wants
to stop off day or two? l won't have
her, | tell you l won't Let her go TO
hotel
1T isn't that wouldn't make your
relatives and friends welcome Not
at all. II shall never be said of me
that my husband was afraid to ask
anyone to his house. But they are
such impossible people. Your Aunt
Jane hasn't got my ideas of house
keeping at all. She isn't to be men
toned in the same day with Sister
Maria, who is coming tomorrow TO
stay a month or two.
And, John, | want $50 | saw a
new hat down town to-day that was a
perfect dream, and it had been marked
down, and-what's that? You are hard
up, and have already paid lot Of
extra bills, besides giving me my al
lowance? l might have known it.
You are always hard up when | ask
for money. | can't have things like
Mamie Simpkins and Katie Idora Any
old thing is good enough for me-
Just because | stay at home and try
to make you a happy, comfortable
home you think l ought to go about
dressed like a servant, but | won't. I
tell you, l won't. l am going to have
that hat, so there, now
Il wish you'd take off your coat and
hang some pictures. and put down
that new mating for me. What, you
are tired? Tired? And doing moth
ing but sitting in an office all day.
Man never appreciate their blessings,
and l just get so discouraged that
sometimes l think | will just give up
aud let you sit where YOU III e and
eat what you want, and smosA all over
the place and drink beer, if you
want to-
You wish to heaven l would?
There, now; there. now Well, won't.
Its a wife's duty to take care of her
husband, and make him home, and
I'm going to do it. 1t shant be said
of me that | am one of those horrid
new women, who belong to clubs and
don't manage their domestic affairs
No, sir Pm going to do my duty, and
make you happy home whether you
like it or not"