The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-16

.'Yes, the right kind had rather work than to marry-just for a home, as you suggested,n she said. And by working, don't you see. she's making herself a home anyway"
 'I thought maybe it was just national unrest or or he stammered.
 No, it's an individual impulse said
 the Girl "The woman revolution, mighty wave that Is going to lift the country up to heights it has never thought of reaching. After all woman is the
 world appointed kneader of bread, and the
 dough molded to her hands isMANi'
 'syotl- talk like Turkish bath attend
 ant. said he mopping his brow. AS If
 man. generally speaking, were one large lump of flesh waiting to be molded." Pm not sure that he isn't,' said the Working Girl. Before I went to work
 had a vague idea that men were like the
 heroes in Tennysons poems, In fact, was sort of encompassed by nebuous
 dreams concerning them. '
 You thought that they wanted to keep women in the background and be the whole show themselves?". he asked. NO. indeed was the reply. "f think l better of them than that-better of them than did before I went to work. I know l now what it means for man to get out
 and make a living for a family. He
 comes nearer being a god, to me now,
 than if I'd stayed back in the background
 and read love stories and dream books | The poet who wrote Life Is Real. Life Is | Earnest was on to his job. He probably | realized that the world was looking 10 him 1 to pay the bills of lot of extravagaut
 and not too understanding lot of women 1 folk Since I've been working the wonder l to me is that any man would ever have | the courage to marry and shoulder the
 responsibility of making living for any | body but himself"
 l Your idea is just beginning to percolate l into my brain" said the Man. "I guess you are right. A long with all this, one doesn't hear nearly So much these days | about the wickedness surrounding work 1 ing girls life as he used to. Why "is | that?'
 Because women are spreading out and
 are no longer kept in underpaid positions.
 The equal salary question has forged l itself to the front.
 l "Women who do their work as well
 as men do theirs are paid as we'll" she
 said.
 But what about the happy home
 life?" he demurred. Isn't it the mans | part to support the Woman?'
 Certainly" said she. That Is what
 the Creator intended, but what woman 1 loves less because she works more The average wife if she felt that she were able to step out into the world
 and support herself Is thoroughly in-
 dependent in the matter of her affec- 1 tions. She loves her husband for him. self alone--and not because of what he can give her"
 You are REAL suffragis said
 the man with an attempt at lightness | Not in the sense N5u mean" she returned There isn't anything for me
 to fight for individually. If a woman l does her work right and is paid pro- | portonately for it, she already has suf- ] frage. With my new womans wisdom l of what 1t means to make living, l have acquired the real brother of tn e = l world feeling toward eevryody else
 that works whether man, woman or | child and while 1t may not be very ad .
 vanced that is my idea of Suffrage. The Millennium Band Wagon will turn the
 corner the first morning that every | body living discovers. what his or her
 work is--and gets busy doing it." 1 'Is that why" the man asked, "that girls whose profession it was five years
 ago being debutantes are now" 1 "Either married and busy making | homes or working, making homes" said
 she. "WhateYer form of endeavor may i be apportioned out to us in the great | Hereafter the ones who are busy try | ing to find out the best thing for any
 man or woman to do in this world now anybody is building up-A HOME"