The evening world., 1910-12-28
10000 Lazy Husbands
In NeW York City Are
Supported by Wives
Half of These Are Men VIII Married Rich
Girls to Escape Work, Says Mrs.
Clarence Burns.

day. She never has any trouble In get
ting such Jobs IL s,e Is really in earnest:
the supply or scrnbvonen IL Invariably
less than the demand.
Thinks Ito Temporary.
"She begins with the conviction tina;
she Is merely the makeshift wage
Garner. for John will soon get a real
job Meanwhile ne stays at home, al
hrs, to mind the children and help with
tho homework. lie finds 1t warm and
comfortable, and the IDEA OF taking a
lob grows more hazy. Ills wife begins
~ fret because he has no work., and so
he Stops even helping around the house
and takes to the street corners, possibly
the saloons. Perhaps. In despair. his
WIG actually secures him work, through
some friend or relative OF hers. But ne
only takes II with the secret determine
tim to drop II as 500 as possible. In
a Gay or two he comes In with some
tale OF the forenan's having i~li-treated
MN or tho hours being too long. and
then his support IL again up to his wife.
That's tho whole story
But why does the woman do lt?" I
questioned. why doesn't she push him
- ''''V Ait Nv
The Problem.
An! there you have the psychology
OF IT," answered Mrs. Burns, with a
wise nod.
THE average woman would rath-
or support her husband in their
home than have him leave Il. She
will feed him. cloths him, give him
tobacco and beer money, virtually
q him . salary for the privilege
OF his company before she win dis
psnss with 1t. Ard every day OF
her life she will tell him that she
wtshso she'd never seen him.
1T Is a degrading situation for both
husband and wife, but +; Is worst OF
all for the children. No, only are they
skimped and stinted materially. for the
mothers wages seldom equal those
which the father could earn II he would,
bu; the example Is thoroughly pernl-
cious."
But don't growing children ever make
the husband and father Ashamed O. his
dependence?"
That IS always the wife's secret
hope" admitted Mrs. Burns. she
thinks when Charlie enters the gram
mar school. or Noble brings home a
prize for sewing. or even when the
YOUNGEST OF the brood arrives. that at
last father will 'spunk up and get a
job. But laziness is a cumulative pol
son. When one has followed the line
of least Resistance for a certain time one
becomes very nearly incapacitated to
walk on any other.
A Modern Development.
'STha layy hIgha nI In Spnh iarva MI =,
bers Is a comparatively modern develop
ment. Before people began to Grove to-
gether In the large cities II was much
more difficult for the average unskilled
woman worker 10 obtain paying occupa-
ton outside her W. kitchen. II wasn't
a choice between mothers pay-envelope
and fathers. II was a choice between
his and near starvation. The tempta-
ton to graft on his wife vas non-exist-
emit"
But don't you believe In a woman's
working outside her home after mar
riage?'
Il think she should he extremely
car eful in entering upon sue work."
said Mrs. Burns. slowly. 'Of course
sometimes II is right and necessary:
sometimes 1t is advisable; sometimes II
Is definitely interesting and pleasurab,e.
But the flower OF a mans self-respeC'
Is a very ine n delicate thing, and "A
Woman should think twice before she
disturbs It by usurping any OF the laws
Of it's being such as the law that 1t
Is the place OF the male to care for
his mate and her children"
Farms for Lazy Husbands.
asked Mrs, Burns how she would
secure the lazy husbands "nnish."
81 would have the State provide biz
farms and factories" she said. where
men who can work and won't work
should he made to work. Out Of their