The Washington herald., 1917-11-17
AMANS PLACE IN THE HOME.
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.

| tasteful duties of housework, a man
who does 1t makes a mistake. He
Is frittering away on little things
the energy that ought to be be-
slowed on big things and is making
overdrafts on his vital forces that
lessen his power to succeed, and he
is sure to be passed in the race for
position by the man who has a wife
capable and energetic enough to do
her own work singlehanded.
For an invalid every excuse is to
be made, but any able-bodied wom-
an who makes a domestic drudge of
her husband, or who let's him walk
the floor with crying baby half the
night after he has done a hard
days work is guilty of monumental
selfishness.
Every now and then you meet a
mother who boasts that she has
never gotten up at night with one
of her babies. 1t fills one with won
der, not only at the lack of SYM
pathy for her husband and affection
for him, but at the lack of sense
she displays. For in accepting the
sacrifice the patient husband has
made for her she has sent a man.
dulled, weary and nervous from
lack Of sleep and rest, out to COM
pete next day with men whose every
faculty was keenly alive. And natu-
rally the man could not hold his
own.
Many wife who has wondered
why her husband did not get. along
in business as well as some other
man she knows, who is in the same
line could find the answer to her
problem in the fact that she MAJ .
, her husband walk the floor with
baby with the collie at night :.
that she uses up his every ounce
spare energy in making him
chores about the house all the ii
! he is at home.
| the baby is Just as much her h =.
bands baby as it is hers and that h J
just as able to walk it as she :.
Which is true, but 1t is also true that
housework does not require the men &
/ alertness or the energy that mo-cy
making does, and so If any one is
face their job with their mental ard
physical ability little under par :,
had better be the woman than tie
| man.
| Moreover, there is nothing abou,
housekeeping that can't be put off O.
sighted, and there is no day in whi"'1
! a woman cannot find time to take a
little rest If she needs it. The b"
mess man, on the contrary, is driy
! from morning to night and has -
moment in which to make up h.s
! broken rest as his wife has.
i Women do not Intentionally over
burden their husbands. It. is simply
because they understand so little wha,
drafts the strenuous modern COM
mercial life makes on a man in mind
and body. They save up odd Jobs
for him to do at home, and wonLel
why he's SO exasperated when they
ask him to do few little errands
like going by an intelligence office and
sending out new cook, or matching
a spool Of elephants breath silk, oil
buying a half dozen different articles
IN department store that you only
have to go up and down about seven.
teen dfnerent floors to find.
"A mans business is to make the
money to support the home. A WON.
ans business Is to make the home
ana as long as the man does not
ask his wife to help him out with hi.
JOB she should have pride enough not
to call on him for assistance in hers
or to afflict him with the stories Of
all of her trials and difficulties.
Besides the money that the mar
gives towards making the home. hi
other gift should be spiritual. He
should help make the home Cheerful
and hapy and brave. and that will bt
tar greater help to his wife thar
II he washed the dishes or peeled thu