The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-15
HIRED GIRLS
BRING DIVORCE
IDLE WIFE PoUTs WHEN HARD
WORKING HUSBAND WANTS TO
STAY At HoME-WlFE SHOULD
90 WORK.

DO WOhNs
| Women whose husbands earn ST.
| 500 a year have no business to keep
| q servant, according to Mrs. McGlone
| Gibson. editor of the Woman Beautl-
full. says the Chicago Tribune.
! She addressed the members OF the
| home and education department at
the Chicago South Side club yesterday
morning on Marriage as Business"
"The average earnings Of the sala-
| ried man of the United States is from
| $500 to $4,000 a year, and his wife
has no more business to shirk her
part Of the marriage contract by keep
ing a maid than her husband would
have to keep an automobile" said
Mrs. Gibson.
I'VE hear about the lax marriage
ideas of modern France, but the Unit
ed States records show one divorce
in every twelve marriages. There is
a reason, and that is the woman OF
America marry men ana then look out
| for q good time, Sinking the respon-
sibility of the business OF married life.
They sit around the house during the
day, and when their husbands come
home at night, tired out with the
hard days work, they want to go out
to spend. the evening.
Pouts Breed Dissension.
''This often causes dissension. The
husband is too tired and tells the wife
50. Then she pouts. II she had been
attending to her business all day, as
she should have been, he would have
been just as tired as he and as ready
to stay at home. They should be
partners in the business of home max
Ing"
At this point Mrs. Ira A. Newman
said:
1T is a wife's duty to keep rested
during the day that she may greet
her husband cheerfully when he re-
turns from his hard days work"
eyes," returned Mrs. Gibson, but
housekeeping should be the hrst
though Of the married woman. She
| has been busy finding out the price
of butter and eggs, teaching her chill
dren to do things for themselves, II
| she is the right kind of mother. and
experimenting the managing OF her
home, 80 she may be able to greet
her husband cheerfully and yet be as
tired as he, and not desire to leave
ucT own NJ cSAOS oAIOA Wv S'AAo
meal
Should Watch Food Economy.
! 1.-THE good homemaker should know
what she is paying for butter. She
| should know whether eggs are 25 or
36 cents a dozen, and she should also
know what is being used for the table
] in her house. If she is the proper
kind of q wife and mother and makes
I rrto hr,S; cha will train
| her daughter how to buy and will
raise her to be an exemplary house
wife. Work never hurt anyone, and
yet we as a nation are training our
daughters In everything under the sun
but the one great essential thing
marriage.
"Eomemaking is the principal fac
tor of a woman's life and should be
taught the young girls of today rath-
| er than higher mathematics or fancy
work.
IF your girls go to college see that
| they make their college wardrobe. Let
them feel and know the value of a dol
lar bill. The old biblical idea that
work is a curse visited upon the de-
scending of the inmates of the Gar
den of Eden is wrong.
Teach Sons and Daughters to Work.
| Work is the greatest blessing and
panacea there is. Teach your sons
and daughters to value it, and what.
ever work they attempt let them aim
to do it WELL If they are interested
In their work the Twill not have time
| to gro selfish and selfcentered.
/ woman is the greatest retail buyer
in the world. Fashion is purely a
/ commercial thing and the manufac-
turers tickle the fancy of the woman
by exhibiting new and pretty things,
which she, having no idea of the val
ne of money, readily buys.
i THE woman who is her husbands
/ comrade and who makes business of
housekeeping and homemaking is not
tempted beyond her means. She con-
siders 1t her duty as her husbands
| partner to save. The woman of the
| great middle class of France are the
bone and sinew OF the country and
are responsible for that small coun.
| try's wealth and prosperity"