The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1915-11-05

| tCiuSc III " Siut ISSUE.
"please don't use that word Seer
Why not say. DO you understand
meT"
"Just so. think 1t will be admit
ted by any woman who Il or has been
married that keeping her husband In
subsection requires Il lot Of time. Then
there Is the household to look after.
and the children. and a lot Of other
| things
Il thought you were going to give
me arguments In favor Of the enamel
patton of women. You are proceeding
| to prove that wife is too busy look
| ing after her domestic affairs to- She
| hesitated.
ITO keep her husband In subsection? 2"
How absurd!'
If you don't like that argument I'll
give you another. presume you stud
led political economy while in college.
Yes, indeed. and 1t made me a free
trader"
1t was now the mans turn to be
startled. He had not been able to
fathom the free trade-protection prob
lem himself. and he was impressed
that Elsie had succeeded in doing so.
You know" he went on, that the
old political economy of half CEN
tury ago has all been upset by mod
ern big business
HAS IL?
"Yes, but it still holds good in small
circles-the family, for instance. You
know that the theory of the free trader
Is that each community produces what
1t Is best fitted to produce, the whole
going into the general market and each
produce and buying of the others what
it doesn't itself produce"
II see."
II thought you didn't like that ex.
preston"
"They are not the same. You said
See? I say 4 see.' There Is great
difference"
my way is more phonetic"
go on"
I'm the family, carrying out this
same principle, the husband does the
providing and the wife takes care of
the household and the children. When
the husband breaks in on his wife's
prerogatives he's monkeylng with the
buZZsaw."
"Oh, heavens! What horrid way
Of putting it,
Anyway he's liable to get scratched"
"Worse and worse. But complete
your argument"
Per contra, If the wife breaks In
upon the husbands prerogatives there
is likely to be Il monkey and parrot
business in the family"
Seeing an opportunity to get In a
blow for her sake without inveighing
against slang. she said quickly, II don't
admit that politics is the exclusive right
Of the husband"
I'm that case but one of two courses
is open 70 us. Either must give up at
tending to the duties OF Il citizen to
you or We must both attend to them
The latter course would he II violations
Of the economic principle
This argument resulted in silence be
tween the couple for some minutes
Elsie saw that, pretending TO give her
an argument for her cause. he was
arguing on the other side. She believed
that there was valid answer to his
statement. but 1t did not occur to her.
ut seems to me-" she said at last.
that we each have duties Of citizen.
ship to attend to In accordance with
our consciences."
THE proof Of the pudding Is In the
eating" was his rejoinder. "Since you
prefer that course. so shall 1t be-
But you would prefer that one or
the other Of us should attend TO the
duties of citizenship for the family"
81 believe in a division Of labor or.
If you like another way of putting II
better, In certain things being attend.
things being attended to by the hus-
band. but IL we both decide to go to
the polls to register our votes | have
no objection to our doing So At any
rate, we can try it. Nevertheless see
no use In trying to cross bridge till
we come to it. We are not married yet. |
When we are all such matters will reg
ulate themselves. But | reiterate Sc
riously that If there is anything objec.
tionable or useless In our both going TO
the polls to vote will defer TO YOU"
what do you mean by useless?"
Suppose We vote on different sides |
We might i'm that case pair"
Pair? What do you me;sl by pair?" |
I'VE might do what we're going TO |
do in marrying. If we intend to vote |
on different sides and neither of us |
votes at all the result is the same as If |
we voted. |, a man, and you. won.
an. marry. There's one less bachelor |
and one less spinster. In other words. |
we are paired"
II do think" she said. looking up at |
him with n pair of soft brown eyes. |
that you use the funniest arguments |
I ever heard"
''They will be plenty good enough |
when we are married"
"How is that?'
There are only two arguments which |
count for much between man and WON
an. Her best argument Is tears: his is
kisses.
With that he drew her toward him |
and kissed her.