The Washington herald., 1917-05-25

!, good a wife as. the foreign vor,an "a
,st snat an tommy rot, At any rate. She
othay ,ng ,.rS, american man better than any
evolved according 10 his fastes snd
neeusi sssi Ihat she fills the bill 10 his sat
shs, IsthSs,etion Is amply shown by the fact that
! ries a fors7s,le A7erlcan woman often mar
var,, Ielgh man, the American man
fery rarely marries a foreign woman.
clergyman referred TO at the be-
Amerieano A OF wosh this article criticises the
| aIweys 1aSS,nan SS,lan because he says she Is
Sng A saoolng about instead Of spend
1 nes n,s ner time In the kitchen as does the
eLa man n haustrau. Well, what OF Il? II
~ heLIcah woman is clever enough
kitchen conveniences, and 10 pet tbrough
2E eE oomestlc labors so that she has time
LOT cIups and reading and outside inter
than blamed. A0'
| certainly. nobody will claim that
Amerlcan husbands and American chill
Ha naen oont get plenty OF good, well pre-
pared tood. Their looks show that they
Ssr,iI. IL sIdtttstlcs tcs declare that only one
wife must do the housework.
hOther thlng the clergyman lambasts
a,nIi @ women for is for dressing too
rIeas J anu Ft not looking dowdy, as middle
class Iorelgn women do Score again
Tor the American woman. She can take
cut paper pattern, few yards of cheap
ciotn ana a sewing machine, and evolve
instaad ~ that looks forty-nine dollars
instead OF forty-nine cents. Moreover,
certain taste and style and way OF
wearing Things are indigenous with the
Iemaies reas OF this country that makes the
pSsT PoIr woman look as well dressed as the
weI-to-do woman does abroad. We have
no peasant women in the u. s. A, and
none that look like peasants
NO man man need be afraid of marrying
he VIII do his. And there's no danger
Of losing her in time OF need. She'll
i stick through adversely as well as pros
perity; s.,o II you viii 60 down and attend
session or the Domestic Relations
Court, you will observe that there are
practically no husband deserters, but the
wife deserters keep the Judge busy hand
ing OUT warrants. 1t is the men who
bad at home, not the women
IL Ill becomes anyone in this country
to speak disparagingly of American
wives when practically all of US are the
| children and grandchildren of those he
role pioneer women who followed their
men into the wilderness, and with their
own hands helped blaze the path of civili-
cation from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the Gulf TO the st. Lawrence.
All the hardships that the men endured
! the women endured twofold. All the
perils that the men dared, the women
dared a thousandfold, because they braV-
ed the dangers Of motherhood with nc
science or skill of a physician to help
them in their extremity.
! And these women, who had the
| strength and courage to do and dare,
left behind them worthy daughters. who
are just as ready to stand back-to-back
fighting with their husbands as their
foremothers were. Read the stories OF
the successful self-made men of today,
and you will find just such a wife work
ing. saving, sacrificing, pushing him on
to the gal
There is nothing the matter with the
American wife. She's all right. Three
IIcheers for her.
Copyright 1917. by the wheeler Syndicate Inc