The evening world., 1912-01-30
q Her Country, Bohemia,
Suffrage Isn't Talked or
Thought OF, but She
Thinks Women Who
Pay Taxes Might Vote.
Yet If a Woman Has a
Man TO Attend to Her
Affairs She Should Let
Him Do II, but She
Ought Not Try to Boss
Him.

~ Marquette MOoers Marshau.
A little rssson u better than . lot OF
baaiots.
That 10 the theory Of the Countess
Lustsow. who yesterday arrived In
America with her husband. the Count.
H was formerly Chamberlain to the
Emperor Of Austria, is holder Of half q
dozen SCHOLARLY degrees. and q leo
tursr on tho culture and history OF his
native country. Bohemia. His wife is
a slender. fragile. blue-eyed lady who.
before her marriage. was Anne. Baron
eD Won Bornemann. But really. I am
not . person Of interest she protests
modestly. "It is my husband who has
the ideas, who Is clever. SO very
ciever!"
Nevertheless. the ideas in the Luetzow
q are not monopolized by the
Count. a. I found out when I talked
70 bis charming wife yesterday.
We had begun with the suffrage quss-
tioa. the conversational cocktail that
introduces nearly every interview these
daya
NO" Countess Luetzow smhingly
admitted, "there 10 no talk or thought
OF suffrage in my country Of Bohemia.
IL 10 more than what you cali a dead
issue: Il 10 an issue not yet born"
And you. do you believe IN TT" I
asked.
IT II this way she returned.
thoughtfuliy. 'It seems to me that
women who much property all In
their own right and who have neither
husband nor father nor brother to care
foe their interests. ought to have some
voice In the disposition Of the money
they pay for taxes.
But there are not many such women.
And for the great majority. who are
happily married or who at least have
msn-folk IN the4r immediate family
surely these mon can work for the
women better than they could work for
themselves. Don't you think so?"
Countess Luetzow speaks excellent
English. and she has even adopted the
London trick of adding a little aues-
,tionsng phrase to her sentence ends. .
ptsssA like the French 'n'est-ce pas"
merely dsfsrential ana requiring no
answex
She didn't wait for one now. but I
rather insisted on putting In q question.
DO you think the men a to work
for the women's dnterestsr'
WOMEN NEED ONLY TO BE REA.
soNAeLE.
But surely" she exclaimed in sur
prise. IAN good wives influence their
husbands continually. n all good hus-
bands are most ready to meet their
wives Wishes, to work for their happi-
nees. A woman a do anything with
a man II she will Just be reasonable.
she must not try to force him to obey
her commands; no man likes to be ham
msred into doing things. She must just
ask for what she wants in a quiet. tenn
p>rate, peaceful. affectionate way. Then
h>P husband gladly listens TO her. and
n she has some good motive to advance
for granting her request no Is certain
mot to refuse. It oil depends on
whether the is reasonable or
unreasonable.
AT least, that IL the case with the
marriages which I ave observed In my
own country. The husband seems to do
az much, II not more. for his wife than
she does for HIM And even in his own
personal work and enterprises he Is so
frequently Influenced by her advice"
"But suppose the woman doesn't
mary7" I suggested.
but marriage 10 her most natural
ana happy iife." the Countess affirmed.
..Don't you think 30? It Ia what com
pletes her. II is wonderfully stimulat-
IN for her mind to come into such close
contect with . mans ideas HIS ME Is
~neoAsartly much broader. and his ideas
are bound to be different from thos OF
oven the cleverest woman. Yet no
woman can realize the full scope OF
them except h woman who is his
wife. Don't you think so7
ADVANTAGE AND BEAUTIES OF
MARRIAGE.
.Marriage Is a sort Of superlative fin
ishing school. an all-around develop
ment for the average 1t taxes
her out of herself and into a bigger
world than she ever dreamed of before.
And besides the benefit to her mind. II
is 80 wonderful always to have one per-
son on whom one may depend. As the
years 70 by, the woman who does not
marry loses her friends by death or
enhancement or separation, and one by
one all those who seemed so close to
her are gone. Then when she is NIFTY.
sixty, seventy. think of her Ion Ely
hoursi
But I think that marriage IL some
thing which grows more and more
beautiful with the years. The eatly
hurts and discouragements melt away,
and the union OF thought and feeling
advances nearer and nearer to the goal
OF Identity. And how one Is sarsd
loneliness"
'Then the ~happiest woman is the
wt6o and mother"
The happlest woman is certainly n
wife. As for motherhood. cannot say.
nave no children. and II seems to me-
that while they are often a great COM
fork they are a tremendous RESPONSE
,ytkA Ana unu,atimes "A terrible lisap-