The evening world., 1912-08-26
Marguerite MOoers Marshall.
Why IL Q happy marriago7

"Hy IN n1ppy mhrrlsgof
like The tito OF the old fashioned
novel. this question seems TO have a
second-story addition, reading some
thing like this: Does married woman
make happier home by working out
side II or inside? Should she Increase
her husbands income by becoming a
wase-oaIner. or should she save 1t by
dispensing with a servant?
Several women writer's have advanced
able arguments on both sides Of this
question. or course the very fact that
It comes up for discussion means that
the wage-earnlng wife scores a point.
Fifty years ago she could not have been
upheld or opposed because, practically
speaklnC, she did not exist. It gems In
mo tina; Mrs Theodore Roberts, Mrs.
JOHN Martin and the others who are
shoolng the married woman back into
her own front yard are also engaged IN
a vain effort TO turn back the hands of
the clock.
But today a woman progressive"
holds the floor. She Is Mrs. Mary Aus
tin, playwright and novelist.
"To me 1t seems such dreadful
waste" declared hIrs. Austin, "for
woman to spend all her time
ana thought and energy In cooking
and cleaning for one man. Tho
better cook ana housekeeper the
woman 10 tho greater tho waste,
| because she possesses . quality OF
intelligence worthy OF . better
cause. It II ridiculous sxtravA-
gance to assign q forty-dollar-a-
week brain to q six-doilar-a-wesk
| Job"
| Consider the preservation OF the
home" / murmured, just to get Mrs.
Austin well started.
THE HOME A CENTURY AGO
AND TO-DAY.
The home to-day must come In for
very serious criticism" she returned
mot because II has been too much
changed by the modern spirit. but be-
cauge II hasn't been changed enough
As an Institution IT has been deposited
in sort of backwater, hopelessly be-
hind the real current OF affairs y
hundred years ago 1t was the centre
OF all our activity. That cannot be
said any longer
when we are very III We are sent
away from home. When we want esDe-
cialiy good things to eat We go away
from home. When We are tired out We
| take q vacat'on-away from home,
When we wan. to be amused and en-
tertained we 10 to the theatre or the
moving pictures or the circus-any'
whore away from home.
The home no longer offers the best
that can be obtained in the way OF
eanitation, food. amusement, or even
rest although once IL stood for all
those things. 1t simply has not kept
up with the procession AZ present II
seems 10 be chiefly used when people
can't afford to 20 any place else. Ger
tainly no woman ought 10 be confined
to the homo OF to-day, when the only
path open to fsV as a monoionous shor'
circuit from enc bit OF household
drudgery TO another"
"Rut the nnti-ferJyt'sts say that the
homo is barren st%ca because It has
already been deserted by women"
observed.
"Thars absurd" ra!i Mr., tur;ln
"The condition Is .ho result ~ n hlg
general movement going on all ov'r .Nr
world, which Is mailing the community
rather than the home the centre O, M
man affairs We are learning the value
Of cooperation. that people can be bet
ter fed, better amused. better nursed II
groups than individual families.
HOME FOR REST AND THE
CHILDREN.
There Is one exception. So ssl
nothing has been discovered equal &
the home for the rearing OF children
To that function and 10 rest believe
our homes should be dedicated Tho!
should be quiet, reposeful places u
come back to, for the wife as we'll al
for the husband"
That Is. you think the wife Should
always work outside her homer"
II would not have her compelled I,
do So" explained Mrs Austin. but
would have every encouragement onere<