El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-15
The Demon Of Discomfort
Many Women and Men Fail 90 Get
Alongg Are We More Sengt-
tive These DAYS.
By VVlnifred Black --
AR MISS BLACK:

- EAR MISS BLACK:
All my life I have regarded
- home life as the most wonder
full and best thing that could come to
a woman I have now been married
five years to a man I loved or I should
not have married him. but there is no
home life. am working for my daily
bread and he Is working, too for a
very small salary.
With my nature it seems almost i'm
possible to live without something to
look forward to. have nothing. am
a bookkeeper and find It hard now
adays to keep my mind on my work.
long for the good old days when
men provided and women made the
Well well, J. ". H. what a dread
full time you are having-au by your
self, and yet I know many people who
are much worse off than you
Thousands OF women stagger along
with all Of these troubles at once. and
live through them and make others
happy at that
It never pays to worry about trou-
bic. Either get rid OF il or stop ret
ting; either get out OF the condition
that gals you so, or stop thinking
about it immediately
You want a home life. How badly
do you want it, Maybe you are the one
who is that
How much does your husband get a
week anyhow Less than anybody else
on earth, or do the men in the same
office with your husband get the same
salary he does2 How DO their families
live on IL and bear the life?
know people who are poor with
SO week 70 spend; others feel rich
when they have &l5i which class do
you belong to?
life? Have you ever tried it,
Home making ISN'T fun; it's work,
and hard work at that. and there isn't
a cent of money in Il, not cent How
do you know you'd be so in love with
it. after alI2
So YOU long for the good old days
when men provided and women made
the home" I've heard a great deal about
those days. I wish I'd seen some Of
them
I asked an old. old woman about them
the other day and she said: 7 reckon
there have always been no account men
and shiftless women as long as the
world has been made" and rather
reckon with the old woman.
Maybe all the cave men were lust
the right thing in the way OF pro
viders" and perhaps all the cave women
had to do was to sit on a limb and (
wait for husband TO drag home a deer
or so for supper but II human nature !
hasn't changed a whole lot since dem /
days." there we're good many OF the I
cave women up at dawn looking for /
deer themselves, and cooking IL. too /
for a husband with a misery IN MS /
back. or a toe ache. OF something that (
made him inefficient" quite in the 4
modern fashion.
We make too much fuss over things (
these days, IL seems TO me- A man i
doesn't make as much money as he 4
might. and his wife thinks she's mis-
mated A woman fOrgets to SEND the
laundry to the wash and the husband /
grinds his teeth and goes out looking /
for an affinity.
What's all the fuss about anyhow
Are we getting so sensitive that we 4
have to have everything perfect or we
can't live at air
Think it all over, J. ". H. think It
all over. what's really at the bottom
of your whole cry for help? Are you
tired of your husband? Are you
ashamed OF him? Do you feel that you
are cleverer than he is? Do you realIy
love hfm-as aIle II you did, do you
think these ideal conditions would
be so vital TO you?
Maybe you are III and tired and worn
out and need a change. Do you Know
what I would do? I'd talk 1t all over