Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-09-09
The Evening Chit Chat
By RUTH CAMERON

"A LETTER has Just come to hand which is So much more interesting
"a than anything ! could hope to write that I have presented my cor
Il am emboIdeDed" states the writer after the usual Introduction
and a little soft soap, Ito come to you today with what I know is an IN
usual subject.
The fact is am a bachelor. I am forty-fve, six feet tall, weight
175 pounds, am a blond, in perfect health, fine teeth. my only claim to
good looks I am very well educated. not extraordinarily SC, but very
well read and well informed 0 n a good many subjects I have a profess
no family, have missed the chief incentive to make any real eXertfon.
Now, strange to say, I do not like being a man nor do I like man's
like the domestic life, really love to cook. never find It a trouble but a
pleasure. Oh, yes, I know what I a IN talking about TO l have cooked In
the only home I ever had with a relative. and ! do not understand how a
woman N dislike cooking and prefer work in q 4 office o. store. ! al
make beds and sweep and often make up my own room, simply because /
prefer to do 20. 1 do not know how I might make out at sewing, but 1
have sewed on buttons and patched.
Now Miss Cameron, the question Is this: Do you suppose in your
large experience with human nature and the world in general that it
would be possible for me to find a woman willing to marry me? I mean
a nice woman, a 4 attractive n and also n who simply detests house
work, one who calls herself a working woman and delights IN lat a-
pelaion, and who would continue that works INK bring IN the wherewtth-
al for the maintenance of the household, while I remained at home and
did the housekeeping and all that would be necessary for a coy, well kept
home.
You simply can't Imagine how I long for a home, a real home cozy
and domestic. l am tired of a bachelors life. 1 have led rather a clean
nor very bad. I could have married several times, real nice gIrls-but,
well I admit I vas a coward-afraid not to succeed in being all in a
financial way that the women of today seem to consider essential Now!
If a woman makes the money she knows where 1t comes from and viii
perhaps not exact so much, and for my part I will engage to keep my
promise to always have a bright and coy home with the meals ready
when she returns. You see I have already done that for my relative sc
know what l am promising tt do do not think this idea a really n
usual one with lots of men. l have heard men express themselves in. near
ly this way-but they do not like their feeling to be known, thinking it
unmanly. I do nOt think It is more unmanly than for a woman to detest
domestic duties and prefer outside work. If the Maker of all. the SUI
preme Being has put the soul Of a woman Il a mans body and vice versa
who is to blame? Certainly not the mn or woman in the case.
81 certainly could love some nice woman very much, and be, oh so
good to her, if she could be satisfied with my humble self, and how l
would serve her with every fibre of my beingi'
Sometimes I fancy this is a make-beieve letter, written just to bait
me- and then again l believe it is genuine. Anyway l think it is a very
interesting point Of view.
Don't you?