Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-09
RULES FOR WOMEN
Thou Shalt Have No Other Man
Than Thy Husband - Thou
Shalt Not Play Bridge Nor
Serve Punch to Thy Guests
Be Good Cook.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, lathe Ten
Commandments for Iowa Church Wo-
men, as got up by the Rev. Marion
Simms, pastor Presbyterian church
at Vinton, are being discussed in ey-
cry church circle in the state. The
Ladies' society, in behalf of the
churches of Iowa, is talking Of hold
ing Indignation meetings. The com
mandments are, however, received
with the greatest enthusiasm by the
mems clubs of the different church
es.
Doctor Sinms summed up his advice
in the following ten paragraphs,
which have been dubbed Ten Com
mandments for Iowa Church Women:
81. Thou shalt have no other
man but thy husband, and when an
other would make love to thee, re
member that he is fool or a knave.
"2. Thou shalt not forget that
the same winsome ways that made
women are necessary to hold him.
Verify, verify, l say unto you, rats
are as valuable in married life as in
courtship.
SO. Thou shalt not expect thy hus
band in beginning his life to support
you on the same plane that thy faith
er was able to reach after long life
of hard work and rigid economy.
Therefore, thou shalt be a heIpmeet,
and not simply help-eat; for veri-
ly, verify, 1 say unto you, that it
isWicked to keep thy husband only
about two steps ahead of the bill col
lector- Neither shalt thou wear alb
breviated garments that make women
look too short and men too long.
Il. Thou shalt not place any So
cial circle, club, pleasureable organi-
cation, or even the missionary soci-
ETY., before thy home and thou shalt
not include that an ideal family is
husband "a bull pup and a canary.
IS. Thou shalt seek first to be
good homemaker, housekeeper and
cook, and then thou must add any
other accomplishments that do not
interfere with thy chief business
in life. Verify, verify, I say unto
you that it is better to be good
cook than to be able to play chords
on the piano, to serve pink tea, pre-
side at whist orgies or to be queen
of bargain hunters.
Sc Thou shalt not gossip, in the
family or out of it, about the neigh
borhood scandal; neither shalt thou
allow the petty yexations of the fami-
ly to disrupt the family harmony.
81. Thou shalt not complain that
thou art tied down to thy home and
to thy babies, for verify, verify, I
say unto you that a woman who is
unwilling TO be tied down to such
is not worthy TO be married to any
man. Thou shalt remember that no
woman is tied down more to her
chief business in life than is her
husband
IS. Thou shalt not aspire to be
a man, to run the politics of the coun-
try, to reform the world, to boss thy
husband, and then expect the cour-
tesy, the love and devotion that are
due an uncrowned queen. Verify,
verify, say unto you that men adj
miremost the woman OF the cling
ing variety.
80 Thou shalt not serve punch
to thy guests, nor put up prizes at
whist parties, nor win them at thy
neighbor's, and then, lecture thy hus-
band and sons On the evils of gam
bling.
30. Thou shalt not allow dust to
gather on thy Bible, nor shall thy
attendance at the services of thy
church depend on the emotions of
a passing hour, the state of the wea-
Their or any other unimportant mat
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