The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-11-04

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Please don't use that word 'See?:
Why not say, DO you understand
me?''
Just so. l think it will be admit
ted by any woman who is or has been
married that keeping her husband in
subsection requires lot of time. Then
there is the household to look AFTER,
nnd the children. and a lot Of other
things
i thought you were going to give
me arguments in favor of the emanc1-#
patton of women. You are proceeding
10 prove that wife is too busy look
ing after her domestic affairs to- She
hestated.
ITO keep her husband in subsection
"HoW absurd!"
IF you don't like that argument I'll
give you another. I presume you stud
led political economy while in college.
Eyes, indeed, and it made me a free
trader"
It 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, .tthat the
old political economy Of half cen
fury ago has all been upset by mod
ern big business"
HAS it?' .-~.
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
it is best fitted to produce, the whole
going into the general market and each
community selling what it is fitted to
produce and buying of the others what
it doesn't itself produce
81 see."
II thought you didn't like that ex-
pression.' -.
"They are not the same You said
See? I say Il see.' There is a great
difference"
"My way is more phonetic"
go on
''1n 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 monkeying with the
buzzsaw'
ooh, heavens! What a 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 prerogatiyes there
is likely to be a 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, IT don't
| admit that politics is the exclusive right
of the husband.'
I'm that case but one Of two courses,
is open to us. Either must give up at
tending to the duties Of a citizen to-
you or We must both attend to them.
The latter course would be violation
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 a valid answer to his
statement, but it 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
eating" was his rejoinder. "Since you
prefer that course, so shall it be-
But you would prefer that one or
the other of us should attend to the
duties of citizenship for the family"
II believe in division of labor or,
if you like another way of putting it
better, in certain things being attend
ed to by the wife and certain other
things being attended to by the hus-
band, but if 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 I see
no use in trying to cross a bridge till
we come to it. We are not married yet.
When we are all such matters will reg
ulate themselves But l reiterate Sc
riously that if there is anything obiec-
tionable or useless in our both going to-
the polls to vote l will defer to you"
what do you mean by useless?"
Suppose we vote Oh different Sides
We might in that case pair"
"Pair? What do you mean by pair?"
I'VE might do what we're going to,
do in marrying If we intend to vote
Oh different sides and neither of us ::
votes at all the result is the same as if
we voted. I, man, and you. wom-
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 pair Of soft brown eyes,
that you use the funniest arguments
ever heard"
'They will be plenty good enough
when we are married."
"How is that?"
''There are only two arguments which
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