Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-02-09
idle Wife POUTS
Beginning Of Domestic Woe,
Says Woman Editor.
Women Whose husbands Earn $500
Yearly Have No Business to
Keep Servant, says Mrs.
Mc0lons In Lecture.

Chicago.-Women whose husbands
earn $4,000 year have no business
to keep a servant. according to Mrs.
Idah McGlone Gibson. editor OF the
Woman Beautiful.
She addressed the members of the
home and education department attthe
Chicago South Side club on Marriage
as a Business"
1.-The average earnings Of the sal
aried man of the United States Is
from $500 to $1,000 year. and his
wife has no more business to shirk
her part of the marriage contract by
keeping 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
United States records show one d.
vorce In every twelve marriages.
There is a reason. and that Is the wo-
men Of America marry men and then
look out for a good time, Sinking the
responsibility of the business OF mar
ried life They sit around the house
during the day, and when their hus-
bands come home at night. tired out
with the hard days work, they want
to 20 out to spend the evening.
This often causes dissension. The
husband is too tired and tells his wife
so. Then she pouts. II she had been
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. They should be
partners In the business Of homo ma
king"
At this point Mrs Ira A. Newman
said:
1T is q wifes duty to keep rested
during the day that she may greet
her husband cheerfully when he re-
turns from his hard days work"
| Yes" returned Mrs. Gibson. but
housekeeping should be the fret
thought Of the married woman. She
has been busy finding out the price o.
butter and eggs, teaching her children
| to do things for themselves, II she is
the right kind Of mother and super
L
80 she may be able to greet her hus
band cheerfully and yet be as tired as
he, and not desire to leave her own
fireside after the evening meal.
THE good homemaker should know
what she is paying for butter. She
should know whether eggs are 25 OF
SO cents dozen, and she should alss
know what is being used for the table
In her house. II she Is the proper
kind of wife and mother and makes
marriage a business she will trair
her daughter how to buy and will real
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 thinl
marriage.
"Homemaking is the principal fac
tor of womans life and should b
taught the young girls of today rather
than higher mathematics or fame!
work.
IF your girls go to college see tina
they make their college wardrobe. lie
them feel and know the value Of
dollar bill The old biblical idea tina
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 buye
In the world. Fashion is purely
commercial thing and the manufsc
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 husband'
comrade and who makes business o
housekeeping and homemaking is no
tempted beyond her means. She con
siders II her duty as her husband
partner to save The women OF tn,
great middle class Of France are tn,
bone and sinew OF the country and ar
responsible for that small country
wealth and prosperity"
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