Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-06-04

W uAuCA VAC O1u SySIoul, IS HOW liz
definitely postponed to the great ad-
vantage Of all concerned.
But the danger to society lies
precisely in the same neighborhood.
Many unmarried people Of either sex
finding that they can make single
blessedness truly blessed indeed,
postpone or abandon marriage. The
normal man or woman that does this,
proves recreant to his foremost and
fundamental duty to society and to
the race.
The biological social ideal is early
marriages and reasonably large fam
lilies for all normal people. Our pres
ent economic system does not favor
this program. The artificial social
life Of the day is very expensive, and
the young man dares not marry till
he has "made his pile"
MARRIED WOMEN SHOULD NOT
ENGAGE IN WORK THAT
TAKES THEM AWAY
FROM THE HOME.
This is selfevident. It is the duty
Of the married woman to make a
home. It is her duty to become a
mother and care for her children.
She is not doing her duty to the fam
lily and to society if she leaves the
home and engages in work which
prevents her from spending the ma
jority Of her working hours in the
home as home-maker and home
keeper.
To be sure, there are exceptions.
The exceptional genius, as the ac-
tress or singer may be morally JUS
tilted in dividing her devotion be-
tween the home and her art, but it
may be observed that often the div
ision is not fraught with happiness.
Poverty may make her work away
from home. a dire necessity, and
temporary exigencies and opportun-
tiles may make it excusable or even
laudable, but these exceptions only
prove the rule.
Gifted and ambitious women often
rebel against this rule. They feel
that they should not be obliged to
resign ''career" just because they
marry. But while there may be very
rare exceptions, the law is that a
woman must choose between a pub
lie career and the one normal wo-
mans career, that Of being a wife
and mother. Public career, notice.
There are many line Of activity Of
economic, scientific and social ma
ture, which do not conflict with a
wife's and mothers domestic duty.
The husband and father should be
the breadwinner Of the family. The
economic position Of the family dis
tinctly deteriorizes when both hus-
band and wife work in factory, Office
or in any other "gainful occupation"
that takes the wife away from home.
Because of the iron law of wages,
the sum Of the average earnings Of
a family is a constant quantity
under any given economic set Of fac
tors, and hence in localities where
it is customary for husband, wife,
and children to work for wages,
their combined wage is no greater
than the wage Of the husband alone
in localities where the wife stays at
home and the children attend school,.
So we may safely conclude that
childlabor and wife-labor away
from home not only injure the home,
but do not even pay.
THE SOCIAL EMANCIPATION OF
WOMAN.
Because of her inferior physical
strength and her superior import
ance biologically, woman has always
been given more protected position
in society than man. But that means
also a subordinate position. In an
tiquity and in the Orient even today,
it is not proper for woman to show
themselves outside Of their homes
without escort, except if they belong
to the working classes. In Europe,
even today, the unmarried woman
"of family" is not to be left in the
company Of unmarried men without
chaperone. In Southern Europe
and in Latin America it is practic-
ally impossible for young people to
meet until they are engaged without
the presence Of a third person. But
among us in English speaking Am
erica the social emancipation Of wo-
men is practically complete. Wo
mems movements in society are as
nearly as free and unrestrained as
mans as their biological position
will allow. This is great tribute
to our civilization, for the funda-
mental reason for the social restrain
on women is that it was not safe fol
her to be unaccompanied by pro-
tector, and she could not be trusted
to be discreet without a guardian
Our dispensing with the protector
the guardian and the chaperone
shows that in our opinion, almost
all decent places are safe in ou1
country even to the lone woman, and
that the average woman has the