The Washington times., 1915-10-11

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golf and bridge, and she goes swimming |
and walking, and she does more dancing
at the age of forty-four than her moth. !
CIR did at twenty.
Wives of Yesterday.
Like husband. like wife. The Ameri-
can woman is certainly not going to
sit at home and mend socks while hus-
band goes to tango teas and wears them
out.
But these people are, after all, the ex-
ception to the rule. and the rule says
that American men are home Ioving,
home supporting. and home keeping.
end their wives are Just the sort Of
wives that men OF their sort choose, and
| are wise In choosing.
The woman of today Ia, take her by
and large. the finest woman there has
| ever been anywhere at any time, lust
as the man she marries 10. taken by
and large. the finest man there has
ever yer. been ee n anywhere at any time.
Inc modern man demands a modern
woman for his wife. He wants not
! only housekeeper and q child bearer,
put sweetheart and companion. and
he wants Just when. how and where he
American women care more for their
| children. think more about them and
|
before in the world. Every poor little
mother, with a poor, little chick of a
child Joins the Child Study Club"
su6scribes to a Child Study Magazine"
| and spends half her pocket MONEY buy
ing tickets to lectures on how to bring
| up her children. The oid-fas Toned
mother loved her children dev tedly,
and gave them good spanking. whether
they needed 1t or not, whenever sbe
happened to get mad. She fed them
cake between meals and Jelly at meals,
and CANDY all the time. She gave them
soothing syrup and sleep drops and collie
| cures
| The Reason She Saves.
She bounced them in the air and
rocked them In the cradle, and iugged
them out into the broiling sun. and
made them sleep in alright rooms, and
what OF It?
They grew UP. somehow, just the
same.
But when hear her held up an a
paragon of all the virtues. when the
poor little modern mother. who's so
afraid she isn't doing Just right by
for John, that she keens on the verge
OF nervous prostra tion all the time Is
held up for ridicule and abuse.
The modern mother Is not only Just
but she's great deal better. and n
you can give any woman any higher
prai Sc than that. I don't know how
you're going to do II.
As to women as indiscrfminate buyers
The bargain fend we have always
with us. more's the pity!
never can see anything funny
about her She's a goose. perhaps. and
sauanderer OF time, energy. and
| money. may be.
| But. somehow, I always wonder what
shes trying to do with the cent and
haif yard she's going to save at the
white sale" and the two cents pound
she's going to save at the cut gro
Gerry Buy new pair OF shoestrings
| for the baby's little blue shoes or n
new ribbon for little sisters hair?
rye never noticed any bargain sales
in pipes and cigars. wonder if they
would be literally patronized n there
! were any?
Would father buy two cigars for 3
cents instead of one for a nickel and
smoke them and try to make himself
he could spend that extra 5 cents on
something nice for little son?
Perhaps he would, but somehow he
doesn't seem to do 1t very often.
| EXtravagant women there are in
America, thousands and thousands Of
them. shrill voiced empty-headed pea
cocks, with no thought but their own
silly vanity and no wish beyond their
own adornment.
| Frivolous women--the country has
enough of them. too.
Lazy women-who keeps the apart
ment business OF the oui vive? But the
great, general mass OF American
women are like the great general mass
OF American men--honest. kindly, con-
scientious. well intentioned, industrious
clean minded. and true hearted-and
not all the speakers in all the purity
congresses in the world will ever make
most of us believe IT,
| Miss Ellen Glasgow, writer and phil
osophcr, for your spirited defense OF
American womanhood thank you