The San Francisco call., 1909-09-08
FLAY AMERICAN WIVES
YET THEY SEEK THEM
Ayers Wives OoddiRg
Causes Nation Of
Tired Spouses
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

n ,EW YORK, Sept. 7.-Motosoda Zu-
moto. editor of the Tokyo Times,
who is here to establish headquar
ters for a syndicate of 20 Japanese
bankers. manufacturers and business
men. with a view to increasing the
export and import trade between the
United States and Japan, is observant
and inquisitive concerning American
ways. as was the Chinese minister,
Wa Ting Fang. Zamoto5 is especially
interested in the relation of the Amer
lean husband and wife. He said to
The Call representative tonight:
The most expensive feature of Amer
lean life is the American wife. The
American husband is the American
slave Poor American husband What
is to become of him eventually in the
process of all this feminine activity?
FLAYS SUFFRAGE
There is one American institution
we have not adopted, one trait We do
not need and one | hope never to see.
That is the sufragette.
i understand the women of this
country want to vote in order that
they may have laws as to be more in
their favor. 1t strikes a foreigner as
strange that the American woman lacks
anything. 1t seems TO us she gets
everything just for. the asking.
Il feel a deep pity for American
husbands. The men here, particularly
the men of the lower downtown dis
tricts in and around Wall street, show
no placid or rested look They look
careworn and weighted down with re-
sponsibiIities. They do not look happy.
The American woman does not look
happy or contented. Her ambition is
overwhelming.
The American woman has ambitions
in innumerable directions. She wants
to shine in the political world. She
wants to lead in the social world. She
wants to be pointed out in the profess
sfonal world as the twentieth century
Portia Poor American husbands!
What is TO become of them? The Amer
lean husband is the American slave.
WIFE EXPENSIVE FEATURE
1T always strikes a stranger here
that the most expensive feature of
American life is the American wife. In
no other country of the world do the
women appear to dress so magnih-
Gently, so -extrava gantly as they do
here. Even the shopgirls here dress
better than the women of wealth in
many other lands. The people of New
York are a magnificently groomed peo-
pie, from the little girl who works in
the downtown oflces TO the women OF
wealth and leisure. have seen women
in New York with their fingers so laden
with Jewels that ii was hard to detect
their knuckles. The Japanese women
are not CANT, even those of
great wealth
No doubt it is the woman goading
her husband into making a larger for
tune with which she may satisfy her
overwhelming ambitions that causes his
health to break down. / presume this
is the reason for the many unhappy,
tired looking men.
NO BACHELORS THERE
The American woman must be
very charming creature to have men
care so much for her that they work
themselves old and weary. The Amer
lean woman is extremely pretty. She
is decidedly fresh looking and hand
some compared with her tired, anxious
looking husband. In view of these
husbands positions in this country, |
am not astonished TO learn of the very
large number of old bachelors here In
Japan we have no old bachelors and
an old maid in Japan is almost un-
heard OF"