El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-13
Marriage As A Profession
CIubman Who Is Afraid to Marry Is
Given q Few Pointers on Old
fashioned vs.. Modern
Married Life.
Rv Wfuffred RIack
By Winifred BIac

--- By Winifred BIack--
MAN writing in woman's mag
n azine tells US that he's never
\ going to marry. He's afraid to-,
ne says
Marriage IS a profession" says the
man, "and so few women seem to
think it worth while to practise it as
they should. The old-fashioned wom-
an looked upon matrimony as a glor-
ious and sacred state of life and she
gave her whole time and strength and
brain to making a home for the man
who gave her his name.
Nowadays, it is a sort of hit or miss
affair Your wife may look after
your home. and she may not; IT de-
ponds on the way she happens TO feel
about it.
ri stay single. thank you. I don't
dare take any chances"
How enlightening. and, in way,
how truei
Wifehood a profession, good sir?
Well, then, how about husbandhood'
may I ask2
The oId-fashioned woman did de-
vote most of her time TO home, hus-
band and babies. that's true. but she
did it knowing that husband devoted
all of his time outside of business 10
wife, home and babies, too.
Old Fashioned Father.
You're so worried about the modern
woman and the way she's changed. Ny
good young man, tell me this; Your
father pushed the baby carriage all
the way to church every Sunday, sang
in the choir and taught the young
mems Bible class in Sunday school
Then he and his wife went home to-
gether. and he helped her get the
children ready for dinner. In the aft
ernoon if any one was going to take
the family walking it was father and
father didn't think it a crime to be
asked to tie on sisters hat and see
that brothers shoes were really but
toned. Would you do these things,
think you2
Or, would you run out for game of
golf early Sunday morning and forget
to get home till nightfall, and then
wonder why your wife looked tired
and bored after her Sunday managing
a hOuseful of restless children alone.
Your father never dreamed of fishing
trips away from home without your
mother How about your little excur-
slonS2 What do you want your wife
TO be doing while you are gone?
CIubs-your father thought that any
crazy or a WastreL He couldn't at
ford clubs-nOt and take what he
thought was the right sort of care or
mother and the children.
-, Nobody expected mother to do all
the marrying and father to be per
fectly free.
When the new ways came in-the
mems clubs. the mems vacations with
other men, the golf and the polo and
the tennis, and the hunting camps
and all that sort of thingSmother
didn't say a Word-she Just went on
and Initiated father, that's all.
She just stopped looking at mar
rage as profession and looked upon
it as an incident-more or less deeply
eeingrossing, according to her DISPOSE
And now father has suddenly walked
up 10 find that he doesn't quite like
out. VI ~
Two to a Partnership.
w l1ehood a profession, young mani
wen, so it is and the finest and the
1t takes two to enter into a profess
sIonal partnership. Are you who be-
val so bitterly the passing of the old
fashioned ideal quite ready to live up !
, y. IoM Ito II on your own part, 1 |
The modern woman does not want /
Chl4dren, you say. Perhaps not. but I
now about the modern man2
Does he want them either? Or. when
ne does want them. is he ready to take I
MS snare in bringing them up2
II wasn't so lonesome walking the
Tloor with the baby when father took
Turns at the work. was it, grandma? |
Dut now would you like to do that
while you knew that father was AT /
ms club having a perfectly good 4
tlme without you or baby either
Marriage used to be the important /
Ihlng In a woman's life-and IN a 1
When men began to look upon mar
rage as an incident women followed |
SUIT What else was there left for
them to do? iOi
Don't look too hard for that old
fashioned girl, Mr. Club Man. She'd ex-
pect things from you that Won
wouldn't find in the least interesting.