Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-28
Is a Wife a Waster?

III Time was when the wife looked after her hus-
bands clothes; when if she prepared no food for
The modern man eats in a hotel, spends his evenings
at the club and sends his clothes to the laundry and the
tailor.
Is the ancient and honorable trade of wife headed for
the discard?
Is it because womans work has been so largely taken
from her that have this restlessness called emnism
Is the wife producer or only waster?
young lady asks these questions.
As she is to be married this June, will answer them
in this Brides Number
What does the wife produce?
First of ALL if she is the right kind OF wife she will
add from 25 to 100 per cent to her husbands income
Not by bringing him money but by increasing his
efficiency; by giving him motive for work
l can ten successful men who have said to me:
IL amounted to hurrah before got married.
had promotion in the first five years after marriage
than in ten years before"
A homeless man is an inefficient worker He eats wher-
hunger overtakes him. he loses sleep than he
ought. He works desperately hard days-too hard
and is utterly played out and useless Others.
The right kind of wife remedies that She helps him
to carry his load easily. And only work that is done
easily is really done well.
Ambition increased income, peace of mind-these
things you may create for your husband my dear Miss
Bride, if you the right kind of girl
And you can do something else: you can actually
lengthen his life.
There has been general impression that married men
live longer than bachelors Recently Professor Wilcox,
OF Cornell University and the New York State Health
Department have proued it.
OF men between the ages of go and 20 the death rate
among bachelors is 81 per cent greater than among
married
OF between the ages of 80 and 80 the death rate
among bachelors is ll9 per cent. greater.
OF men between the ages of 40 and 40 the death rate
among bachelors is los per cent. greater.
The of thirty, with good wife, has twice good
chance of living to fifty the with no wife.
And finally Miss Bride, you do the most important
thing of ALL
You establish one home bit of moral
leaven in the community center of simple living,
clean thinking, and oldfashioned honesty.
We have had great succession OF movements"
recent years all intended to hasten the millennium:
Prohibition movements; woman suffrage movements;
anhis and anti that movementsall well intentioned.
But the millennium will not come by movements
When the Jews went back to Jerusalem and began to
rebuild the WALL every householder built the part "over
against his house."
The various parts joined end to end, to make
pete circle of the city So the individual housekeepers,
each by protecting his house, had by the effort
made the city
That is the only bulwark for the modern city State
nation that amounts to anything succession OF
well made homes. standing shoulder to shoulder
That is your job, Miss Brdethe greatest in the world
You need not envy those who trust to their books
their statues their speeches to make them famous.
You will write your influence in human flesh and blood
it will hrob in the veins of the long you have
descendant in the world.
That is your promise of immortality.