Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-26
Shall Women Wage
Farmers When Married
Give Up Their Positions?

The mans salary alone means cellbacy
for both. or else starvation and privation
that viii enibitter the sweetest dispoEi-
lions in the world and cause q couple to
hate each other II they have been foolish
enough to commit matrimony on a shoe
string. But the wife's earnings added to
the husbands mems marriage under COM
Portable conditions that spell happiness.
Certain is II that the average woman
who has been in business likes II. She
is enamored of her own pocketbook, and
no woman who has ever earned money
takes kindly to being dependent on any
body else, even her own husband, and
having to go to him for every penny she
spends. Likewise. 1t is not to be dis
puted that the woman who continues
after marriage whatever occupation she
followed before marriage and draws her
weekly pay envelope therefor, IL likely
TO make a much more agreeable and
amiable companion that the lady who
has given up her work at marriage and
has had also TO give up all the pretty
clothes and indulecncies that she was
able to afford when che was wage
Garner.
Another argument In favor OF the girl
who marries poor man continuing her
work after marriage is the economic
waste involved in her having prepared
herself for career that she abandons
Just as she reaches efficiency I'm II. The
greatest obstacle that stands in the way
Of women reaching high salaried posi-
tons Is the fear their employers have Of
their giving UP their work as soon a.
they marry. For this reason many men
refuse to take the trouble TO train their
girl employees for the positions the young
women's abilities fit them to hold.
From practical standpoint it seems
absurd for man to ask 4 woman who
can earn g good salary to give Il up
when she narries, when lie has nothing
10 offer in place OF it, Why should a
girl who enjoys office work ana is pro-
flcient in It forsake that for the cook
stove. that she knows nothing OF, and
loathes, and which wears her out more
in one day than a week OF office work
will? What sense is there in q girl who
can earn perhaps $50 a week giving Il
up to do housework that a s5-a-week cir
could do better.
AS long as man needs the help Of
his wife he should be generous enough
to let her help him in the way thai
is easiest and most agreeable to her
When he does anything else II Is merely
a SOP TO his masculine vanity He {.
willing to sacrifice her TO save his face
as the Chinese say. He wants her tC
work for him, but hidden out OF sight.
The only argument 10 be advanced
against women continuing to follow gain.
full occupations after marriage IL tn,
tcomplicatlon that arises when there ar
chndreni but even here we have L
choose the lesser OF the two evils. Their,
win be no babies at all IL people cam
afford to marry. and, even at the worst
the wage-earning mother can do bette
part by providing for her children thar
the mother who has not the money I,
give her children the proper food ans
clothes
There is no more reason for q poo
woman giving up a job when she marrie
than there is for a man giving up his
Let her hold on to it as, long as she need
1T. She can retire to domesticity whei
she is able to afford It.