The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-08

bread-she escapes much of the mis-
cry, heart burning and morbid notions
of her sisters, born to luxury, idlenesS
and ease. 1t is easy to imagine the
bringing-up of the rebelliouS wife:
the smattering of schooling and ac-
cOmplishments which served as her
education; the false ideas with which
her foolish young head was filled; the
ideal of marriage as the only thor
oughly respectable vocation for a Wo-
man of her class which was held up
to her; the silly Sentimentality
which her unrestricted reading of
worthless novels gave her in place of
any real knowledge of love and life;
the absolute purposelessness of her
existence while she waited for a hus-
band. If that husband, when he fin
ally came along, had been poor man
and the rebelliouS wife had been
obliged to work and scrimp and econ
omize she would have been too busy
to worry and fret because her hus-
band had something to do beside
make love to her. But her husband
was successful, man of affairs who
supported her in idleness and left her
to her own resources, woman with
a mind that craVed satisfaction and
energies that should have been use
fully employed, but lacking training
in any direction and with no impera-
tive duties, her life passed in idleness
and boredom and she ate her heart
out in bitterness, Jealousy and discon-
tent. -.-i ---r-.-t
The rebellious wife is the victim of
| circumstances and is perhaps not to
] be blamed for the false ideas which
have made her soul a prisoner and
her life a failure. The mistake which
she made, or which was made for her,
/ was the mistake of her class which
| still persists in regarding marriage,
in itself, a suitable and sufficient ca
reer for a healthy, normal, intelligent
| woman. The social philosophers
| have long since pointed out the cause
| of the restlessness and discomfort of
| the modern woman in the home,
which is, the lack of employment for
which the entertainments of indus
| trialsm in the field of domestic Ia
| Dor is responsible. Women as we'll
| as men need work, in order to be
| sane and contented and now that
marriage for a woman no longer
| means the work of head and hand in
the home. marriage is proving pro-
| portionately unsatisfactory. A wo-
man should have her work to do in
| the world for which she should be
| fitted in youth, just as a man is. She
| should not be expected to wait for
love and marriage for a raiSon d etre.
Many women never marry and con-
stantly increasing number marry Hn-
| happily. They should not depend
| entirely upon love for their life's one
| interest and excuse. They should have
some useful, productive. eongenial
| employment to dignity and justify
| their existence. Love and marriage
| will always play an important part
in a woman's life. as it does in a
mans. It will be potent, in many
cases, to make or break. But the
| time will come when women will
cease to regard marriage as a career
| when they will have their work as
| a man has his, and will pursue it af-
ter marriage as before. This is al
| ready true of the women of the poor
err classes. Necessity demands it,
poverty drives them to the factory,
| the shop, the office. An equally stern
| necessity-the necessity for the san
/ ity the purpose, the interest, the con-
tentment, which work gives, will fin
Il ally drive all women to some regular
i occupation. The exceptions will be,
as is the case now with men, the fall
ures the outcast, the socially unfit.
Notes of Personal Mention.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Ward Page have
gone to Seattle. Portland and Cali
fornia for an extended trip.
Miss Effie milford Of Hoyt is spend
| ing the week with her aunts, Miss
| Graham and Mss Efie Graham, in
| Westlawn.
i Miss Marcia williams will leave
soon for Chicago university to take a
summer course in advanced English
and history.
1 return tomorrow from their wedding
! trip to Excelsior Springs.
! Miss Mamie NJ. Schenck has gone
to NNal1IOTQla ana the Northwest u
/ spend the summer. Most of the time
4 she will be at Coronado Beach.
i Mrs. E. H. Guy will leave soon for
\ Arkansas CITY to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
II Frank Guy and she will go from there
Il to Colorado for a few weeks.
! Mrs. George P. Stitt and her daugh-
/ ter Mary viii leave next week for
II Iudfngton. Mich, to spend the re-
u mainder of the summer.
Mr. Welt Felix of Kansas City and
Mr. Hugo Felix of Parsons spent Sun
dav and Monday with their parents,
III Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Felix
Mr.. George Bauerschmitt has gone
1 to New York on a business trip.
Miss Myrtle Howard of Hutchinson
spent Sunday and Monday with her
father Mr.. J. w. Howard, her brother
Mr.. H B. Howard, and her sister
| Mrs. George Hutson. of Lawrence.
/ A church reunion and social with q
musical programe viii be held at the
First Baptist church tomorrow even
The r. r c. will meet with Miss