Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-02-23

Beginning of Domestic Woe,
Says Woman Editor.
Women Whose Husbands Earn $500
Yearly Have No Business to
Keep Servant, Says Mrs.
McGlone in Lecture.

Chicago.-Women whose husbands
earn $4,000 a 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 at the
Chicago South Side club on Marriage
as Business"
1.-THE average earnings of the sal
aried man of the United States Is
from $500 to $4,000 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.
1--WE hear about the lax marriage
ideas of modern France, but the
United States records show one di-
vorce in every twelve marriages.
There is a reason, and that is the wo-
men OF America marry men and then
look out for 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 go out to spend the evening.
This often causes dissension. The
husband is too tired and tells his wife
so. Then she pouts. If 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 home ma
king"
At this point Mrs. Ira A. Newman
said:
1T is 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 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
f1reside after the evening meal.
THE good homemaker should know
what she is paying for butter She
should know whether eggs are % or
SO cents dozen. and she should also
know what is being used for the table
in her house. If she is the proper
kind of wife and mother and makes
marriage a 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 womans 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 a
dollar bill. The old biblical idea that
work is 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 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 value
of money. readily buys.
"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 women of the
great middle class of France are the
bone and sinew of the country and are
responsible for that small country's
wealth and DrOsDerity"