Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-01-14
Or what is the matter with me?

course 10 III me Ior position IN the
business world. l don't believe l am
doing wrong.
l wonder why a wife is expected to
be & professional beggar, and why it
would not be just as honorable-if beg
we must-to just take our little tin
cup and go down on the corner AID
beg. / believe we would stand a bet-
ter chance of getting a few pennies.
What do you think? Yours truly,
A READER.
What an unlucky little person you
are to be sure Twice married and
both times a failure, wonder if it can
be in any way your fault-iust the
least bit in the world? You say SO
much about the mans property, his
prospects, what he is able to do and
all that, and so little about the man
himself. Can it be that you marry just
for what you can get and not at all
for what you can give?
We're you in love with either of these
men when you married them? Not
dead in love, perhaps, doubt if one of
so emincntly a practical turn of mind
as yours seems to be could ever be
madly in love with any one. but was
there ever time when you thought
you couldn't be happy without 'him?'
We're you ever afraid that something
would happen that he would cease to
love you or did you do all your worry
ms about what he might or might not
give you?
What did you plan to offer him IN
return for all these things-house and
home, and clothes, and food, shelter
and protection in a thousand ways.
just your service as housekeeper?
Why did you not make a business
bargain of it to begin with and be done
with it? Why do you call any such
contract as that a "marriage?"
Don't you suppose it possible that
the man found you wanting in some
way? You haven't had what. you ex-
pected when you married him. has he
had what he expected and what he
had right to expect?
Let that old curmudgeon of yours
fall in love with woman who VIII
pretend to be in love with him, Just
only pretend at that, and see what he'll
do to make his money fly to please her
Own Fault Perhaps.
Have you never pretended very
hard? Or did you make it perfectly
| plain to him that you married him
just for what you could get out OF
him. and are you surprised that he
should show resentment in the onlJ
way he thinks he can make you feel
it? l am not.
Perhaps it isn't your faut at all;
perhaps this sort of man marries you
because he sees that you are obedienf,
long suffering, easily duped, and not
hard to manage. If that's the case I'd
show him that he was mistaken, AMI
I'd show him now.
l would not live with any man in Il
state of bondage, not if he was the last
man alive and the pit gaped for him at
that.
why should women be beggars? o.
They should not be and they won't be
if they are real women,
Are you doing wrong to learn bus
mess so as to be self-supporting You
are not, you are doing right, exactly
right; keep right on doing it, and let
men go out of your life for good.
You've had enough of the kind you
seem to select
Take care of yourself and your chill
dren and be happy, and free-and for
get that you ever were any other way.
That's what l should do in your place
And in the meantime I'd like to hear
the mans side of that story, too; it
might be astonishingly interesting.