The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-06-02
VOICE OF
-A. TIE Am.-
p e O l. e
a MooTED QUESTION.

East Chicago. June 2.
To Editor of The TINES
A question which should be of gen.
eral interest has been raised by re-
cent contributor to one of the Chicago
dailies regarding the propriety and ex-
pediency of woman pursuing after
marriage any connection she may have
had with the world of industry or the
world of business. The author of the
letter referred to indicated in plain
language what reprehensible action
he considered it that woman who
had married and was being cared for
by a man should continue to exercise
her faculties in business thereby ex-
Guiding some unmarried woman from
holding such position.
This is subject which has been
treated exhaustiveIy in various com
munities in the course of the past few
years. Aside from the question of sup
ply and demand it seems to the mimi
of the undersigned that justice is due
primarily to the intellectual woman.
leaving for later consideration the
needs or desires of the unintellectual
or the class of manual workers.
Presenting that a girl, as often hap
pens, find in. the course of her college
ton for some certain line of Thought
or study-say mathematics; upon COM
| pletion of her college course she may
| have become an able statistician. may
have mentality enabling her to pre-
pare a valuable table of cost of pro-
duction, or to do constructive work OF
eminint value to society When such
| a woman marries should she be rele-
gated to the kitchen the washtut
or should it be her meter to figure cost
| of a child's garment, two and a hall
yards of material, at seventeen cents g
yard. she who is able to compute dis.
tances between fixed stars?
one might proceed through the
category of professions in which WON.
en- have distinguished themselves and
whereby they are rendering immeas-
durable service to their community oil
Ito the world at large. Women have
Hong been specialists in the medica
profession and in the law. There arr
women lawyers who enjoy the privi
llege of practising before the Supreme
Court of the United States. There arr
women musicians, artists. professors
architects: in all professions have the,
shown themselves skillful. But it IL
suggested that when they marry the,
lay down this competitive work ans
devote the balance of their days {,
the management of servants, or, il tn
husband is not so successful, to- tn
performance of the daily round o
looking and cleaning. instead of do
ling the work which is most congenia
land earning much more money thai
would pay the wages of a capabl
servant.
Another side of the question is tina
1.-The tendency in character is to shrinl
or expand to fit the groove in whicl
lone is forced to move The Shelters
woman" or feme covert. as she !
called in legal parlance, in spite of re
monstrance is sure to become narroy
; and self-centered; to expect this
nothing more than logical. We con
tend that the rendering of daily re
) munerative service is productive o
: benefcient results to character.
Il The case of the woman with sma,
children must not be overlooked. TIL
majority of women will tell you tina
= the years which must be devoted eS
: clusively to the child may be counte
iupon the fingers of one hand TIL
kindergarten soon takes it, and afte
the prescribed number of years mar
e rage breaks the home ties beyon
3 separation. Then is the woman lone
u lly, indeed, unless she have her Pre-
fession or her business interests.
KATHARINE SANTI