The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-18

weary of hearing about than an
other il is Of the parasitic woman
Whenever a dySpeptic, dsgruntIed or
ator runs out OF something else to at
tack. he turns to and begins tlaying
the woman who lives at home, and lsn |
out in the world wrestling with a lob'
as a parasite,
Whenever a foreigner who has spent
two weeks in this country takes pen
in hand to describe America, he dips
It in gall ard dcyotes pages to telling
about the parasitic American woman
who does nothing on earth but waste
the money with which her poor, pa
tient, long suffering husband tolls like
slave to supply her.
We hear so much about the parasitic
woman that we have almost come to
believe that the entire female sex be
longs to the vampire breed, IN spite
of the fact that none ot us has ever
personally encountered one OF these do
mestic monStrosltieS The women we
know are not engaged in sucking the
lie blood OF their men Instead, they
are working, tooth and toe nail, TO
help their mankind along in the world.
| OF course. there are parasites, deS-
picable creatures who take everything
and give back nothing OF service to
the world and who live upon the work
Of others, but the dead beats OF So
ciety belong to no one sex.
II there are men who have their
strength sapped by clingng vine wives,
there are also women who are crushed
to the earth by dead weights OF huS-
bands The census report OF wives
who support trliling, loaiing husbands
IS simply appalling Indeed, one oi
the greatest arguments against women
| becoming wage carners is that II
seems to promote paraSitism among
| their male relatives, for, as soon as a
woman begins to earn money some
man comes and camps down upep hei
and forces her to feed and clothe him
And when 1t comes to being a real
genuine blown-in-the glass parasite
/ the male can give the female cards
and spades and beat her hands dowr
hA hlllllk 'hN a MVl hlUdllllhV lNu W
Sponging The woman vampire feels
1t incumbent upon herself to- at least
make herself pleasant and agreeable tc
those upon whom she lives. while the
male parasite considers that he has a
perfect right to be as brutal as he
pleaSeS II is the boarding houS,
keeper who takes care Of her husband
who lives in fear Of his grouchines,
and temper. 1t is the washwoman who
bends over tub 10 support drunker
loaier who gets beaten up by him ior
her reward
There is, however, a spiritual para
SltiSn as we'll as a physical one and
II II IS true, as is asserted. that M
other women in the world get so much
OF their husbands money. and give SC
little work in return for it as Amer.
lean women, It is equally true that nc
other men IN the world demand SC
much socially and spiritually from
their wives, and give so little IN return
for II, as American men do
No other men depend so completed,
on their women for their Amusement
and entertainment
In other countries men make the So
clal running they lead the converSa
tion, they think up ways to entertain
women. The American man practical
ly never does this. lie furnishes IN,
money TO pay the bills for a good time
and the woman has to do the rest.
IA,,kI .l.. A
you. Between the acts at the theater
OF opera, YOU will see nine. .tenths oY
the men sitting up like craven image.
while the women with them are put,ins
on full steam trying to Snatkle. and b,
vivaciouS, and win a smile from ,heir
escorts At every dinner table. i, /.
the women who are laboring like Goa
beavers trying TO make things 20 and
to amuse their dinner partners. In
every drawing room in the land. IN,
women are, figutatively speaking. dan.
cling like Herodias daughter beior,
| the men.
II is women who read m on topic,
men are likely to he interested in
never men who try TO inform them
selves upon topics OF interest tC
women, Wife puts out her eyes study
ing up on the major leagues and IN,
outlook OF the steel market, So tha
she can converse intellipen,ly with hei
husband OF an evening, bu, YOU never
hear oi husband perusina the fashior
sheets so that he and his wife ma,