The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-13
WHERE FATHER LOSES OFT.

From time immemor1al father
has been looked upon as the head OF
the household and the good wife has
yielded him that position as d gem
eral thing and yet when il came
down to a real pinch. mother was
sit" if she only knew it. Mother is
coming to the foreground to as
sumo the place as the head of the
house and is also getting in touch
with the business world to a large
extent. Just where father" is DRIFT
ing is we'll explained by an article
in the Boston Transcript, and it is
enough to make mere man set up
and take notice, as he is being grad
ually showed into the discard:
From the bench Judge Peatzek
of New York has announced the de-
cision that 1.-The father is not lord
of the household; he has no abso-
Lutte rights; he cannot dictate-but
he must. get the consent of his wife
on all matters pertaining to the ed
ucation and bringing up the chill
dren."
"It has been noted that in recent
years the typical father has relin-
pushed or has been forced to aban-
don, a direct interest in the train
in Of the young. On the vital sub
ject OF child culture, now rated as a
science, he has offered no advice
and nobody has thought 1t worth
while to appeal to him for sugges-
lions. This matter is monopoIized
by mothers clubs and mothers con-
crosses at which the nearest thing
to male representation is an occas-
ional address by a young college pro-
fessor. The father has made no pro-
test against his humiliating exclus-
ion. but he shamelessly confines him
self to the silent role of the family
provider. OF his formal dethrone-
ment as the lord of the household
by the courts Of law he has nothing
to say.
Long ago MI. Howells, a profess
sional and minute student of woman.
warned man of his impending yer
throw as an authority in intellect
ual matters. He declared that wo-
man having e~mancipated herself
from the narrowing drudgery Of the
household, devotes herself fur
a..., ~ ~, ,o3rdse 0rov,th Che
does most of the serious reading in
books which are written mainly for
her and chiefly by her, and is also
the more thorough reader of the news
paper. She knows more of the crafts
and arts of the professions and Of
the sciences than does the average
man. She can drive a nail without
smashing a thumb, which few men
can do. Her club life is intellectual,
while that of man is sensual. She is
the better parliamentarian, having
made a fierce study of manuscripts
and rules of order. She is an orator
and a debater as we'll as an essayist
and her club meetings are lively, in
teresting and instructive. She knows
what she wants and does not stop
with the adoption of fruitless reso-
buttons, as witness the campaign of
the English suffragettes.
This is the well-equipped mother
who has undertaken to rear the chill
dren, and If the father is not glad
to have her do 1t, at least he has
not the temerity to say so. Certainly
it is no father who suggests a fathers
congress with the object of wrestling
the boy from women's rule. The call
is made by a number of male high
school principals who feel the in
creasing pressure Of woman's COM
petition. 1t is they who cry out that
the father should assert himself and
train the boy Gin a mans way"
Mayor Jim" Dahlman, of Omaha,
was reelected to his job by a major
ity of over 3,OOO-and that after a
pretty hard fight had been made on
him. The breeziness of Dahlman
with his true western spirit INC the
way he does things has brought him
a large number of friends down
thot wav and tho ctrop ooSt cupoor+