Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-01

in he world ! am privileged to as
sociate with bunch of female saints
and lady angels while other people are
condemned to the society of women
hends and fools.
When [ 90 to church l hear the
preacher Jerate women for race sui
eide and Gambling and drinking, and
tell how they prefer pomeranian pups
to babies, and declaim about how the
hand that used to rock the cradle is
now sending the world to perdition
as fast as it can go.
When | attend lecture | hear
some learned sociologist and student
Of economies tell how woman's waste
. fitness and extravaganza and her lazi-
. ness and shiftliness are at the bottom
/ Of the real high cost of living.
When I pick up a magazine l
read diatribes about the women and
especially the young women, who
throw their husbands hard-earned
money away as if it were so mucn
| junk; who scorn to go to market but
! let the butcher and the grocer send
them what they will and charge what
/ they like; who dress beyond their
means, and have no idea of the cost
of anything, so that they are cheated
right and left by shopkeepers and
/ dressmakers and milliners, and who
are a sad, degenerate lot compared
with their domestic, frugal grandmoth-
ers.
Now, l am not denying that this
decadent type of woman exists. l can
only say that if she does. have never
met her, and Id like to know where
she lives, for I'm much of the opiu-
ion that she is like Sairy Camps
Mrs. Arris-there amt no SIGH person
outside of the realms of magma
ton
In my opinion, the modern woman,
and especially the woman who is so
modern thatss is still in her twen-
ties, is Just as much an improvement
on her grandmother as a woman and
wife and economist and a manager
as steam heat is over an open CRATE,
or electricity is over candles, or a
porcelain-Hned bathtub is over the
washtub in the kitchen of a Saturday
night
"Of course, there are rich women
who spend money with both hands,
who maintain splendid establish
ments with dozens of servants and
have scores of dresses and yards of
pearl ropes. And it's a good thing for
them to do these things Every per-
son they hire they enable to make an
honest living. Every dress they have
gives work to a lot of other women
and helps along the merchant who
sells the goods. They put money in
circulation, and it's a thousandfold
better for them to spend than to hoard
up their money in savings bank. Us
the duty of the rich to spend and a
millionaires should be praised for it,
rather than blamed.
But the rich women do not repre-
| sent womanhood. They are the ex-
ception, not the rule. And so far as
my acquaintance goes. And so far as
my acquaintance goes, l do not know
two WOMEN who are not deathly afraid
of debt and who do not strive with
might and main not only to live with
in their income, but to save Wher-
ever you 80 among people of moder-
ate means, the talk among the wo-
men is about how to cut down bills,
and they are exchanging recipes for
F eggless cakes and new ways of cooking
cheap cuts of meat.
When a woman is extravagant and
/ runs her husband in debt, it is nearly
always because he tells her nothing
OF his business affairs and she doesn't
know what she can't afford Men
spend money far more freely than wo-
men do, and that it isn't the wives
who ruin their husbands always is
|abundantIy proven by the fact that
the majority of men never begin to
save anything until after they are
married.
And these selfish, sordid, grasping
girls who look at a mans bank &C
count before they look at him, that we
hear SO much about. Where are they?
I've never met one OF them, but l do
know a dozen beautiful. highly born,
highly educated girls raised in luxu-
rious homes, who fell in love with fine
Young fellows who had to make their
way in the world and these girls.
Ipoyously married the men of their
choice and are living in Harlem flats
and doin gtheir own cooking and ba-
/ by-tending-yes, and their laundry
] work foo u,ba, tic pacnssorv A.,