Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24
The independent" Girl.
(By Sophie Irene Loeb.)

(By Sophie Irene Loeb.)
Blanche Bates married George
Creel Blanche Bates is an actress.
George Creel is an editor and re-
former on the independence of
Woman"
The question arose as to whether
Mrs. Creel would quit the stage.
Said Blanche Bates: Retire from
the stage? Why should l retire sim
ply because / married? How ridicu-
lousw'
George Creel said:
How impertinent it would be for
me to seek to relegate a woman like
my wife to greasy domesticity! Why
should any man ask woman like
my wife to retire to life of pots
and kettles just because she does
him the honor to marry him? How
inconsistent it would be for me to
ask a woman to give up her freedom
and independence-ho selfishly
male! l wish my life to be living,
stream, not a backwater. And the
only way to obtain this ideal in any
marriage is for the man and woman
to have individual as we'll as COM
mon interests@for the wife to be
economically independent of the hus-
band"
George Creel is a sensible man.
He not only breaches, but he prac-
tices what he breaches.
There are too many women-capa-
BILE women-who have become do.
mestic doormats in the defense of
old dogmas that with the trend of
times have outgrown their useful
ness.
While pots and kettles are neces-
sary adjuncts in the network of ex-
istence, and not only have their
place, but, in truth, carry dignity
with them in the matter of necessary
work well done-yet if woman has
begun a good work which is whole
some and happy to her, to have her
stop and change that work for some
thing less congenial to her tenden-
cies is certainly at variance with ma
ture.
Thus it comes to pass that there
is many dissatisfied wife who (hav-
ing acted on the preconceived old
fashioned idea that after she leaves
the altar she must change all her
former attitude toward her own de-
velopment) soon finds that nothing
else is expected of her. And she
becomes the domestic doormat.
Certainly we must have domestic
women. We must have women who
put up jelliess But let those whose
interests and propensities lean in
that direction do those things. They
can do this much more economically
than the woman whose tastes and ac-
tions have been farthest away from
these lines.
There are many women who enjoy
the domestic sphere and would
shrink from earning money apart
from what is given them by their
husbands. Which is all very well,
but they are doing their part in the
worlds work.
Yet there are many wives who can
do an enjoyable work, and could ,
with such earnings, pay some one to
care for the domestic hearthstone
Were 1T not wrong to relegate them
to the rear of the kitchen and say:
Here you must belong, since you
have married?
Married or single, useful work
keeps the mind of a woman active
and her soul from brooding over i'm
agined wrongs and close confine-
ment. in the home precinct. 1t all
resolves itself as to the nature and
tendency of the woman in the case.
What's good for the goose is not
always good for the gander What
kills ope saves another. So 1t is
with the domestic idea There is no
reason in the world why a woman
cannot be worthy wife even
though she does not like to bake
pies or sweep carpets.
Womans sphere is that place
where she is most useful and happy,
Chao, - H.. - -.