El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-05
Love, Not Politics, Rules
Domestic Misery Due to Old Adam
and Eve Causes
BY Dorothy Dix

ONGRESS MAN STANLEY F.
BOWDLE, Of Cincinnati. who de-
~ feated Nicholas LOngWOrth, OK
presidents ROoseYeIt's sOn-in-law. Tor
congress. has been expressing himself
on the woman question to this tune:
'Oh, yes, the home is great, ana
women are great. and our homes were
greater in former days-the days OF
our mothers when there was no clam
or for the ballot The home today. IS
not so great as it was in former days
The depIOrabIe state of our homes IS
the dOleful, sociological fact OF tne
feyerish question Of the hour, the craze
for suffrage"
The one interesting thing in con-
gresham BOWdle's diatrlbe on women
is his assertion that our homes were
greater in former days, the days q
our mothers, and that the deploraDIe
state OF the home at present IS the e
suit of the craze for suffrage
The answer to this assertion is that
there's nothing the matter with the
home Of today, nor the mothers OF To-
day The people, who talk ABOUT now
superior things were in the times 81
our grandparents, belong to the mas
been class, who are forever telling US
how much better the tallOw candles
and the stage coach were than electric
lights and the automobile are
Our grandmOthers and our mothers
were good women and good mothers,
and did the best they could Tor their
homes and children according to the
lights they had, but they didn't know
the first thing about housekeeping, nor
child rearing. according TO modern
standards. Nor did they put IN 1.-THE
Of thoughts or Intelligence on the
proposition Of making a home or
bringing up their children that thelr
granddaughter do
The mothers of the past felt that
they had done their fun duty by their
children if they fed them and clothed
them, and kissed them, when they were
good, and spanked them when they
were bad The mother Of the present
brings every particle Of Intelligence
she has got to bear on doing the pest
she can for her offspring Instead OF
neglecting her duties as a mother, she
OverdOes it.
As for the housekeeping, not one Of
US but would be Mortified at our grand
mothers sHpshOd way Of doing Things,
at her lack of knowledge Of tood
values and sanitation, and her waste
full extravaganza in throwing things
away Grandma's housekeeping would
bankrupt any man Of today, and give
him chronic dyspepsia to boot
People like this Rip Van Wrinkle
congressman seem TO hold il against
the modern woman that she no longer
spins and Weaves, but buys ready maze
cloth from the factory. With equal
Justice they might criticise the farmer
because ne no longer plOws with a
crooked stick, but uses highly in
geniOus machine run by electricity.
The contention that the "deplOrabls
state Of our homes is due to the dole
full sociological fact Of the craze for
suffrage" is too laughable to be ser1-
Ously discussed
Domestic misery there is in plenty.
but it comes from the old Adam and
Eve causes. not from the new wOman's
rights movement
Indeed. the ratio Of divorce is par
ticularly low in the countries and
states where women have the franchise
which shows that the right to vote mas
no more effect on a. wOman's affections
than il has on a mans. and that love
and not politics rules the hearthstOne-