New-York tribune., 1909-03-02
THE DOCILE WIFE
Morriage on South american Plan
Jars Peace Circle.

Conflicting ideals Of domestic bliss nearly led to
war n the Wouan's Peace Circle at tne Ho0eI
Astor yesterday afternoon The South american
idesI vas presented by Seforita Holman Huioooro'
=. r4fB ana did not At al coincide with that of
the Peace Circle
There are no divorces in South America" Senor-
ita Hudohro seid but the condition whereby that
idyIlic state attained would seem TO be unattan-
able in this less fortunate land. The women ask
questions.
If a man comes in at 5 o'clock in the morning
his wife him at breakfast as If nothing had
happened. and you may Be sure after that there
ssr't anything he wouldn't do for her. II he says
10 her after while. Marie. you didn't ask where
was the other night she says No, II ism any OF
my business And neither il is. Some Of you don
agree with rne'-the senorita noticed signs OF
American Independence in her audience-"but q
man must have his liberty If he goes 70 dinner
with some friends after business and gets into his
cups and waits until he knows his own doorstep
before going home. he doesn't want to be asked 10
explain
sehcrita Huidobro is not married, but is quite
sure that if she she could manage husband
perfectly on the South American plan
South American women she said. have that
diplomacy and duplicity. I might almost say that
deceit which enables them 10 make & man think
they don't know things Ana that is the only way
70 bring happiness"
stin another beautiful thing about the South
American wife il her happy faculty Of forgetting
that she has husband
TIL YOU marry man you don't kno9T what you
are getting. but South America is z Roman Cath
oils country and there IS this advantage about the
Roran Catholic religion-I am not Roman Cath
olic rnyselt-that 81 teaches woman 10 be content
:n phatever position she finds herself And the
TSouth American wife after she has had eight, nine
Dor twelve children. forgets in certain measure
that there is such a thing Z husband.
South American mothers ara nothing If not
maternal. IN South America g woman is pitied II
she has no children Here she is congratulated
And what is a woman without maternity She is
nothing but rag and bone end g hank Of hair.
eouth Americans proud Of e family Of egh-
tteen. twenty-five. twenty-seven and thrtythree-
even thir4v-six. I don't -nean'-for the Peace
Circle looked aghast-''that these all children.
There are married sons and daughters, with their
children. in the family
When the seforita had finished this pleasing
picture the president, Mrs R c. Benedict, took
The door
Il disagree entirely with sehorita Huidobro,"
she said. I born IN the South and educated
tn the North. and have travelled in the West So
I think know the country, and have no hesita-
zion IN saying that American mothers are the best
sn the world. II is not true that American women
don't want children II Crawford. where live,
fifty couples were married year ago and forty
three OF them now have children Physical mother
hood IS everything, an6 God didn't intend
every 70 10 q physical mother
A ~ou1an IN the back Of the room added that IN
teIIectuaiity sometimes nte-fered with the domes
tic temperament, ard she didn't think that Ameri-
car women. particularly New Workers. could ever
hope 70 oorne UP TO the South American record
q regular thing
In rpits OF her extreme dornesticity, SehoTita
t5uidobro wants to vote She nlentone6 This incl
deutaIly. and said she derived great amusement
from reading the 'antis - letters IN the papers.
Her reason appears TO be that, men being so hope
lessly bad, the body polite be redeemed only
by female Intervention and she thinks further
more, that the docile wives Of South America will
=ote before their more enanciPated sisters Of the
North.