The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-08
DIR. Marden's
Uplift Talks
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BY oRgsON SWEET NaRcEN-
s4Culo NOT BE DRUDGE Or \
DOLL

80 oLE1 none! G4a9 II DtGDllrs>
ashamed Of his ol6-fRsh5Cne5 wife
sn5 M longer wants IN mot IN her so
lsEIv-~
Not long ago nan WHO zbar601ed
his W1te and whip tried in every WV
10 provoke hs- I'D EH- : divorce from
hin SO he could marry young and
attractive girl, plainly Iol6 her that
she Was moi gooS4o0Eng o. stylish
enough for him. thai now that h h2o
money ne Eantad . vile VINO eODla
SLOW Of In society
This poor woman had made all sorts
Of sacrifices In their early days Of
struggle with poverty For years she
had WpTkad and deprived herself Of
necessities 10 help her husband get z
START IL the world and 10 care for
and trgrg mp his children without Z
nurse or maid She made q drudge
u herself. but when he had become
prosperous he had no use for the
Eo-1-out wife. with her buTued-out
bssuty and her wrinkles, Eh5eh had
Fzi5 The price q large parI OF his
prosperity: be wanted 10 cast her
aside for : young, fresh and s-trzc-
tive vile
In the t-sal the wife said Il
worked from screen IL the morning IN
IL eleFen O'Clock Al night Bul now
that an 10 longer needed In the Dasi-
ness. he has hssped Upon ne insults
1utold- He has neglected and failed
70 properly provide for ne
He repeatedly told ne taxi ] WAS
rot fashionable enough for him. the
wife concluded He liked dressy
women He took ne 10 one place and
pointed Ont Miss K and said he had
spent ss99 wining and dining her
Tie world viii never know the tor
lures. Z thousand times worse than
death itself endured by wives Of
prosperous husbands. who 50 often
prefer suffering 10 scandal and En-
5uTe living death rather than ex-
pose their husbands. who have been
fascinated by younger and more al
tractive women
One Of the most pathetic spsctacles
II American life is that Of the faded.
cutgrown wife standing helpless, in
The shadow Of her husbands pros
perity and power. hsTing sacrificed
her youth. beauty and ambition
nearly everything that the feminine
mind holds dear-to enable an indjf-
ferent, selfish. british husband 10 get
start In the world.
IL does lot natter that the wife
sacrificed her OWL opportunity for a
career. that she gave up her nCst
cherished ambition ia order 10 make a
ladder for her selfish husband TO as.
cend By. When he has once gotten
10 the top, like a WHY, diplomatic
politician. he often kicks the ladder
DOWN He wants 10 make a show il
he world; he thinks only Of himself
His poor. faded, WORKOUT wife. stand
ing in his shadow, is not attractive
enough for him now that be has got
ten up IN the world.
The selfish husband thinks that be
should have a clear track for his am
bition, and that his wife should be
content even grateful. TO be allowed
TO tag On behind and assist him il
every possible way IN what he con
siders the grand life work Of both OF
.hem-to make him the biggest man
possible. IL does not eTeu occur II
him that she could have an ambition
yelling up within her heart, q long
ing 10 answer the call which runs il
her own blood. and q yearniEg to ex
press il in some vocation as vel
as be.
I DO not believe that the Create,
has limited one-half Of the human rae.
| practically 10 one occupation. while
the other half has the choice Of Z
| thousand
But" many OF our men reader
win say. is there any grander pro
fession in the world than that Of hem,
making? Can anything be more slim
1lating. more elevating than horn
| making and the rearing Of children
How can such q vocation be narrow
ing. monotoncus?"
Or course # is grand. There !
nothing grander in the universe tina
the work Of a true wife. : nobI
mother. But IL would require the cor
stitution OF Hercules. an infniteI
greater patience than that Of a Joi
to endure such work with almost n
change or outside variety. year in an
year ont, as muItitudes OF wives an
mothers do.
| The average man does not appr'
ciate how almost devoid Of incentive
TO broad-mindedness. to nany-sidet
ness. to liberal growth. the home III
Of many women is.
The business man and the profe
Eional man are really in a perpetu:
school, great. practical uniyersit
He is continually coming in conta,
with new people, new things, bein
nodded by vast number of force
, which never touch the wife in tt
, quiet home.
] believe in marriage, but I Z
| not believe in that marriage Yhic
} paralyzes self-deveiopment, strangl.
, | ambition. and discourages evolutic
and self-growth. which takes ava
the life purpose. Nor is il necesal
|. that the wife should work like a sia-
' In order to grow. There is a certa
2 class of men who go to the 9th