Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-08-13


Aruument-"5eatins Sometimes Ef-
fective"-"Woman's Nature to Be
Ruled" She Says.
MS it necessary to beat your wife?
Yes, and no! 1t all depends on
whom you ask to answer the Ques-
ton.
Mrs. Howard Archibald Samuels,
secretary of the Household Felicity
League, admits that certain benefits
may be derived from occasionally
chastising your spouse.
Miss RosaIie Gardner Jones, known
as General Rosalie, the particularly
attractive conductor Of suffrage tours
to Albany, Washington and various
points via the foot route, takes the
opposite view and maintains that no
true suffragist will stand by and let
her husband be the one to do the
beating.
The question arose all because DR..
William F. Waugh OF Chicago, dean of
the Bennett Medical college and chief
surgeon of the jefferson Park hos
pital. came out in favor of wife beat
ing as a proper and wholesome disci-
pline. But, then, Dr. Waugh is not
married.
What DR.. Waugh Advocates.
Among other interesting statements
on the matter he made the following
declarations:
when you find your mate. rule
her; she expects you to be head of
the house.
When you have her, live for her;
she demands it.
When she awakens your jealousy,
beat her; she needs It."
Then the doctor went on to say that
the most devoted wives in the world
are those who fear their husbands
Such wives sit up nights trying to de-
wise plans to please their masculine
lord and win their appreciation. And
take it rom DR.. Waugh, the approba-
ton of said lords is some tid-bit worth
striving for.
It's this way the doctor goes on.
Through their lack of beatings, some
women escape from their husbands
control and are incapable Of con-
trolling themselves. They soon find by
the absence of beatings that their
husbands are not their masters
Therefore they seek other masters,
and their contempt for their husbands
has reached it's limit. Once a wife
holds her husband in contempt, not
even beatings will win him back into
her respect, for then she win know
that he is merely making bluff. and
is not really the masterful being she
believed him when she married him. .
Joke" Says General Jones.
General RosaIie Jones threw up her
hands In CONSERVATION and indigna-
ton when DR.. Waugh's remarks were
called to her attention.
Equal suffrage went into effect
July H. she cried "He is having his
last inning, for with women nearing
their rightful position in the world,
he knows it will be his last chance
DR. Waugh knows who will hold the
master hand when we get the ballot
in his state, and this outburst of his
is merely the feeble wall of an en-
vious old bachelor because some one
but himself is in for a bit OF consider
alton from now on"
mo doubt DR.. Waugh is right, in
some respects" said Mrs. Samuels,
who is an anti-suffragist. 1T is well
known that women love best the men
who are somewhat cruel to them, and
/ presume DR.. Waugh's statement is
a just and proper warning against
what will follow the granting of the
vote to women in Illinois"
Fortunately Miss Jones and Mrs.
Samuels were not mutually present
when these statements were made so
not one thing happened.
Couldn't Do II, She Says.
You see," Miss Resale went on,
lit would be the greatest joke in the
world for man to try to beat a
suffrage wife. Just imagine, for in
stance. an ordinary man trying to
chastise-well, it wouldn't be fair to
mention any names. But you know
some Of our energetic suffragists in
the city. Why, wonder what would
happen to him?" and General Jones
laughed her merriest
Il imagine Or. Waugh hasn't much
to occupy his time when he wastes
1t advising men to whip their devot-
ed partners in life. After few more
years of suffrage there won't be much
room for men of DR.. Waughs type
anyway"
But to analyze his statements in
detail, Miss Jones2'
Well" said the doughty leader of
suffrage armies, take his reuark
about women expecting men to be The
heads Of the house. That's the old