Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-09-10
JAPANESE EDITOR
PITIES HUSBANDS
DECLARES MARRIED MEN IN UNIT.
ED STATES ARE MADE SLAVES
BY THEIR WIVES.
NEVER SHOW RESTED LOOK
-1lways Appear Careworn and Womer
Dominate Life and Make Condi-
tons, Foreigner Asserts.
THEY ARE ALL TOO AMBITIOUS

NEW YORK, Sept 6-Motosoda
Zumoto. editor of the Toxic Times, feels
a deep pity for American husbands Hs
thinks the most expensive feature of life
in the United States is the wife, who
appears fresh looking and handsome com,
pared with her tired, anxious looking
husband. Despite the fact that Ameri-
can women seem to have everything
they ask for, Mr.. Zumoto says they dc
not look happy or contented. because
their ambition is overwhelming
Mr.. Zumoto came here for his third
visit three weeks ago. Since his last
visit. eight years ago, he says great
changes in the manner cE lite greet him
on every hand, but the one which makes
foreigner stand aghast is the marvel
Gus progress of woman's invasion of the
commercial world
Mission Is Industrial.
Mr.. ZumotoS mission at this ti1ue is
the opening of Offices in this city from
which the headquarters of a syndicate
composed Of twenty of Japan's leading
manufacturers and business concerns
the export and import trade now carried
on between this country and Japan,
which now amounts to about 100000
O0O Mr.. Zumoto's paper is the only
English daily paper published by a ma
tive of Japan.
We have adopted many American
IDEAS to our great advantage" said Mr.,
Lumoto. There are many others that
when fully carried out will add much to
the personal comfort of japanese life.
One Of the things | have IN mind is the
real comfort to be had by copying the
American home with it's wonderful con
veniences, which few japanese homes
now possess.
The japanese are fast becoming i
meat eating nation. Much fresh beef is
being imported from Australia. [ am
in favor of this innovation. | believe II
will make us a stronger and harder
race.
so far I think most of the things we
aaye learned from our acquaintance with
you have been excellent for our coun'
try. But there is one American institu-
ton we have not adopted, one that we
do not need, and one | hope never tG
see. That is the suffra Settc. / think suf-
fra getting would destroy our national
happiness, and our domestic life is happy
indeed.
Dominates American Life.
81 understand the women of this coun-
try want to vote i'll order that they may
have the laws changed so as to be more
in their favor. | do not know what eft
feet suffrage will have upon her, but 1t
always seems TO a stranger that the
American woman dominates nearly every
phase of life. If she gets suffrage, what
is to become of the poor American hus-
band?
Il feel a deep pity for American hus-
bands. The men here show no placid or
rested look. They look careworn and
weighted down with responsibilities.
They do not look happy. The American
woman does not look happy or contented.
Her ambition is overwhelming. 1t is not
strange she is not contented or happy I'M
der such circumstances. She is ambitious
in scores of ways of which japanese
women know nothing.
The American husband is an Ameri-
can slave. 1t always strikes stranger
here that the most expensive feature OF
American life is the American wife. In
no other country in the world do women
appear to dress SO magnifcently, so ex-
travagantly, as they do here. Even the
shop girls here dress better than women
OF wealth in many other lands"