Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-08-07


fashioned way. Suffrage expects the
man and his wife to be equal heads
of the house. Nor does the modern
suffrage wife expect to be ruled by
any mere man.
The only speck of truth in Dr.
Waughs theory l can find Is in his
| second statement, where he says,
When you have her, live for her, she
demands it. OF course, she demands
it, And it's her right to do SO. Every
woman demands her husband to de-
vote himself to her alone, and, under
the suffrage idea, If he doesn't he's
going, to hear from her In short order
Calls Arguments Absurd.
Now, take what he says about
beating her when she makes you Jeal-
Gus. That is the most absurd thing l
ever heard Of 1t is part of wom-
ans duty to make her husband jeal-
Gus. That is one of the ways she
| holds his affections. 1t is human ma
| ture to want what you're not sure OF,
| and when a mans not sure Of Wom-
an he wants her a lot more than II
she was groveling about at his feet
| all the time If man beat his VIE
every time she made him jealous,
she'd hate the ground he walked ON
in ten minutes.
He says fear and devotion are
synonymous That's also ridiculous.
Imagine loving anything you dread or
fear. AS for fearing wives sitting up
all night, well, maybe they do, but it's
trying to devise some plan to placate
their lords and not to please them
General Rosalie went into parox-
ysm of mirth over the gravity OF DR..
Waughs remark that the appreciation
of masculine lords was worth striving
! for. "Ha, hal" chuckled the little
general, Il knew he was bachelor
THE way for a man to hold a
womap's love and respect is to be
gentle to her. He can be firm with
out beating her on the head with
golf club or punching her in the eye.
| doubt if any woman ever really
loved a man better after he hao
kicked her in the shins or knocked
her down and pounded her into
comatose condition. But l have
known them to love him better be-
cause he was good and kind, and
thoughtful and attentive. and strong
but not brutal.
Echo of Past Ages.
"As for women being unable to con-
troll themselves and needing to be
controlled by a man, that is all
thing of the past ages. Modern Wom-
EN- mean suffragists, of course
are not only able to control them
selves. but l imagine are quite well
equipped to control others when
necessary. DR.. Waugh is simply
Joke" And General Resale laughed
again.
Quite different was the viewpoint OF
Mrs. Samuels.
81 do not agree with all he says"
she declared, but there is surely
lot of common sense behind MS
theory. No, l have never myself
been beaten; my husband did not
find it necessary to do so, but !
know of cases where beatings would
have been very effective among
wives.
The theory that man Is master
and woman his slave is as old as
time. 1t goes back to the days OF the
cave men, who knocked their wives
on the head and carried them back
home on their shoulders. ! doubt II
any common woman ever loved
man as those women of old loved
their lords.
This Woman Agrees With Him.
ct is woman's nature to be ruled.
II she is not ruled she will search TIL
she finds some one who will com
mand her. That is the cause OF
much of the domestic infelieity of to-
day. do not know that fear and
love are as closely allied as Dr.
Waugh says, but 1t is certain there
IL an affinity between them some
where. A woman who fears the
wrath of her husband loves him bet.
tor than a woman who has no fear OF
him at all. is the way would put IT,
a concur heartily in his advice 10