Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-08-08
VOTES FOR WOMEN
PUT TEMPORARILY
IN BACKGROUND
Whether to Beat, or Not to Beat,
Your Wife, Is the Latest
Controversy in Order.
DR.. WAUGH, AFFIRMATIVE;
R0SALlE JONES, NEGATIVE

"Most Devoted Wives Fear Hus-
bands," Says Or. Waush-"Jokel"
Retorts General Jones-"Modern
Suffrage Wife Does Not Expect to
Be Ruled by Any Mere Man"-Mrs.
Howard Archibald samuels Rather
Favors the Doctors Side Of the
Argument-"BeatInas Sometimes e.
fective"-"Woman's Nature to Be
Ruled" She Says.
rs 1t 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 Resale 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 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 from DR.. Waugh, the approba-
lion 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 its limit Once a wife
holds her husband in contempt, not
even beatings will win him back into
her respect, for then she will 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 Resale 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 l." she cried, He is having his
last inning. for with women nearing
their rightful position in the world
he knows 1t 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"
No doubt DR.. Waugh is right in
some respects" said Mrs. Samuels
: who is an anti-suffragist TT is well
known that women love best the mer
who are somewhat cruel to them. ant
presume DR.. Waughs statement is
Just and proper warning agains
what will follaw the granting of tn,
vote to women in Illinois,"
Fortunately. Miss zones and Mrs
Samuels were not mutually presen
> when these statements we're made g,
, not one thing happened
Couldn't Do It, She Says.
You see," Miss Rosalie want IN
1T would be the greatest joke in tb,
world for a man to try to beat
Suffrage wife. Just imagine, for in
stance, an ordinary man trying I,
chastlse-well 1t wouldn't be fair I,
+, mention any names. But YOU know
some of our energetic suffragists i,
the CITY. Why, | wonder what wouI,
happen to him?" and General lone
, laughed her merriest.
Il imagine DR.. Waugh hasn't mucl
, to occupy his time when he waste
1t advising men to whip their devot
D ed partners in life, After few NOR
D years of suffrage theirs won't be mucl
room for men of DR.. Waugh's typ
anyway" 'f
5 But to analyze his statements il
p detail, Miss Jones?"
Well" said the doughty leader O
Suffrage armies, take his remar
0 about women expecting men to he ~