The Brinkley argus., 1910-12-02
s.c;nn;nn of Domestic Woe,
 Says Woman Editor.
Women Whose Husbands Earn 9<'ooo Yearly Have No Business !" Keep Servant, Says Mrs
 McGlons In Lecture.

Ch;caro.- Women whose husbands .arn 500 year have no business to keep a servant, according to Mrs. Idah McGlone Gibson, editor or ene Woman Beautiful.
 She addressed the members or .no home and education department al the Chicago South Side club on "Marriage as a Business"
 "Tne average earnings of the sal .rled man of the United States h from $500 to s2.6oo year, and n's wife has no more business to ehirA her part of the marriage contract " keeuing a maid than her husbahd would have to keep an automopiie' said Mrs Gibson.
 We hear about the lax marriass idens of modern France, put tls United States records show one ~ yorce in every twelve marriages There is a reason. and that Is the W men of America marry men and thes look out for good time, shirking the responsibility of the business ot mar ried life. They sit around the house during the day, and when thelr nus bands come home at night, tired ou< with the hard days work, they wans to go out to spend the evening.
 "This often causes dissension Inc husband is too tired and tells his wire so. Then she pouts. If she had beeH attending to her business all day, as she should have been, she would have been just as tired as he and as ready to stay at home. The" should Dc partners in the business of home ma king"
 At this point Mrs Ira A. Newman said
 Tt is a wifes duty to keep rested during the day that she may greet her husband cheerfuly when he re- turns from his hard days work.
 Yes" returned Mrs. Gibson, "but housekeeping should be the first thought of the married woman. She has been busy finding out the price of butter and eggs, teaching her children to do things for themselves if she is the right kind of mother. and super intending the managing of her home, so she may be able to greet her hus- band cheerfully and yet be as tired as he, and not desire to leave her own Greside after the evening meal.
 The good homemaker should know what she is paying for butter. She should know whether eggs are p or 36 cents dozen. and she should also know what is being used fa- the table In her house If she Is the proper kind of wife and mother and makes marriage q business she will train her daughter how to buy and will rear her to be an exemplary housewife Work never hurt any one. and yet we as nation are training and educating our daughters in everything under the sun but the one great, essential thing marriage.
 Homemaking is the principal fac tor of a woman's life and should be taught the young girls Of today rather 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 dollar bill The old biblical idea that work is a curse visited upon the de scendants of the inmates of the Gar den of Eden is wrong
 Woman is the greatest retail buyer in the world. Fashion is purely 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 value of money, readily buys.
 The woman who is her husbands comrade and who makes a business of housekeeping and homemaking is not tempted beyond her means She con sidets 1t her duty as her husbands partner to save The women of tho great middle class of France are the bone and sinew Of the country and ars responsible for that small country's wealth and prosperity"