The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-18

and dispositions that bleed with SYM
pathy when the man in the back flat
SHES an empty beer bottle at the OBJ
streperous tom cat on the rear fence,
have a militant champ OH in Rev. DIR.
Oscar Haywood, a local divine who in
public statement issued the other
day advocates the equal distribution
Of all household work between hubby
and his life partner. Wherefore the
genus homo of Gotham is sitting up
and taking notice.
Let a man learn how to cook"
says the dominic, LET him be the one
to get up half an hour earlier in the
morning and get breakfast, instead of
his wife, who really needs more rest
than he does. # they desire, let them
take turn about. Let one wash the
dishes while the other wipes them.
There is notl ing degrading in this, in
fact, it is elevating to a man. NO
woman ought to be expected to take
a broom in hand and bend to sweeping
after hard days work. Divide the
labor That is the mans work when
you make such a division, for it is
the harder; let the woman make the
beds. If a man once understands the
trouble, his wife has with her honse-
work when it is all placed on her
shoulders. he will cease to find fault.
He will become heater. more consid-
ces. The greater interest a man
takes in his home the more he loves it.
With the present division of labor
among men and women, all men, mar
ried or single, should understand CO.
mestic science and the care Of chill
dren.''
Judge Lacombc of the United States
Circuit Court. has put himself on rec
ord in the cause Of the Magdalenes.
In a biting opinion which he filed the
other day IN suits brought by Uncle
Sam against the steamship companies
for bringing them here. he denounced
the statute which stigma tizes them as
undesirable and declared our laws to
be harsher on the soiled doves than
the Bible quoting from Romans vi.
%, to prove the strength Of his asser-
ton.
In commenting on the drastic char
acter Of the Immigration Laws, the
jurist cited a possible case, where its
operation would be unjust. He said:
can alien girl--an estimable. virtu-
GUS girl--while yet an infant, comes
to this country with her parents. AS
she reaches womanhood both parents
die. and the young woman is left. it
may be, with no other relatives to
make her struggle for existence as
best she can. She may for some years
lHdilldiH ucfSoII, anu tIfeu at laSt-dI
some time when work Is scarce and
poverty is strong-may take the cas-
lest way to keep body and soul to-
gether. All hope for her may not be
lost. Institutions, state and local and
countless agencies maintained by the
willing 6 fits of individuals stand ready
to help the fallen woman and secure
to her some opportunity for a new
life. Can the alien fallen woman
avail Of this help? No; because the
sovereign power stretches out it's pow
erful arm. seizes her and casts her out
Of the country in which her young
life was wrecked. to fling her into
the country whence she came, so many
years before that to it she is practi-
cally an alien, possibly unable to arr
ticulate the simplest phrase in its Lam
guage, penniless and, It may be-,
alone. If such be the wages of sin
for the allen fallen woman, the price
might be thought higher than that
announced in Romans vi %. 1t is
certainly startling to find such piece
of legislation upon the statute books
Of a Christian country. But it is
there nevertheless.