The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-08-05

preston is as driving in them as the
reproductive instinct is in the more
literally sexed women. The latter are
still very much in the majority, how
ever, and therefore it is far better
that they marry and have their chill
dren in their youth.
While 1t is misfortune for a girl
TO have to marry simply to escape
iife's burdens. without love or the
desire for children, it is d lesser evil
to have the consolation OF home and
children than to slave all day at an
uncongenial task and go home to a
hall bedroom
Glad She Married.
PERSONALLY, although nothing has
ever tempted me to marry again." Mrs,
Atherton added, Il am very glad that
l married in my early youth. No one
was ever less equipped for domesticity
and the responsibilities of everyday life
than I. and il 1 had not Numbered into
marriage before was 25 should prob
ably not have married at ALL Sheer
| luck betrayed me into matrimony. for
although my mental energies We're
, torpid for several years, my first
child seemed to dissipate the shadows
-
I was a normally strong woman.
When my husband died I had but
one child, and left her with two
adoring grandmothers and came TO
New York BY that time my health
was established and l felt equal to
! writing six books a year if any one
| would publish them. But / shall al
ways be sorry that I did no. 60 on n
newpasper as a reporter iGr there IS
no other way for woman to see life
/, in ali is phases
Live and Newswritino.
l found this statemen: from ono
! OF our writer's of serious fiction most
interesting as it is in my own personal
theory that newspaper work, which
brings one face to face with life as it
actually is, is the worst possible
equipment for pleasing publ.
winch insists upon reading about life
as 1t would like to have it, But as
this was long way from woman,s
choice between love and work, said
nothing about 1t. Instead / referred
TO the interesting theory which Mrs.
Anterior has promulgated in "The
Living Present"-the suggestion of
general housework as lucrative
Lots of Men Housekeeper,.
But why is the suggestion of the
man houseWorkers so extraordinary,
Mrs. Anterior wonderingly inquired.
Men stewards care for the state
rooms on ocean liners, keep them like
wax and make the best bed known
to civilization. Men wait in the din
ing room and look out for the pas
sehsefs on deck. l can conceive Of
household where a Wel.-trained
man does the honewsork, cooks
washes, waits on table, sweeps and
makes the beds. I will Venture to
predict that man thus EMPLOYED
would get through his work before 8
O'Clock and could spend an hour be-.
fore bedtime with his girl or at his
club.
Many Jap in California makes
$loo month by getting up at 5 to
wash a certain number of stoops and
sweep sidewalks. Then he cooks the
breakfast for one household, washing
up the dishes of the day before:
cleans up generally in another place.
COOKS the dinner for a third family.
waits on the table and cleans up aft.
erward.
AS white men are stronger than
Japs. they could do more work in less
time and be able to support 4 wife
and a little flat, thus solving satis-
factorily the problem of life for
themselves and providing thousands
OF women shaving in factories and be-
hlnd counters with homes of their
own"