Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-04-17
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Perplesing Problem, Growing out
of the War. 50 Far as English
Women Are Concerned. ERelatu
q Payment Of Wages ~ Hus-
bands.

Another p~erplexing problem brought
on by the war comes alartoring for
solution, declares tho Literary Digest,
Wives are insisting that husbands pay
them wages. AL least, Ehsiisi. wives
are making this demand. according Ia
q writer IN the London Daily Mail.
Tho government values my services lit
three pounds a week. says friend wife,
addrs sssing the masculine member 81 the
partnersaip. II T quit M job and come
home and work for yo1. / think it's
no more than fair that YOU should pay
me. MY keep probably costs you one
pound q week. Hence. / am iii all
Justice entitled to receive two pounds
a week from you The husband sees
the logic Of It and also It's justice, ana
seeing, he ponders. Says the writer In
The Mad:
Women who have been managers of
aircraft works and other business Our,
ing the War have different ideas OF their
value from those they had before. Meth.
Ing will induce them to be voluntary
workers any more. They see that work
Is only valued wherf paid for, and 1T
is not good Tor hubby" TO have so
much done for him for nothing.
The writer, who Is q woman. and
hence, no doubt, much better able to
appreciate the true ~inwardness of the
situation than d mere man would be,
then dilates on the great reluctance
with which the average woman asks her
husband for money, her intense JOY
when she is In possession Of money
that is really her own, and particularly
her satisfaction in being able to take
full advantage OF ever, arggaln sale,
a pleasure apparently heretofore largely
denied h q owing to a lack 81 funds.
AS she puts 1t:
Women have felt all these things in
the past, but they have said nothing.
They Will never be silent about their
grievances again. Women are awake to
everything that concerns them n, W,
And IL no notice is taken Of their de.
mands there VIII be- d strike. SeethinG
~diaeoE~saHts II IaiMssss dangerous.
Ihette Is saras 1isa Naewsr the men
can make. Vhey know thatAtheir wives
will so out to work 4 they DO not pay
them to stay at home unless there ts 4
very good reason why they should not
pay. They know wha.. that means to the
children. They know that one woman is
not capable Of doing two peoples work.
as their wives Will attempt.
However. there ID always a coEnpensa-
tory, not to say retalltory, side TO all
things. and the writer in The Mail APP
preciates that an arrangement under
which q husband pays his wife carries
with It certain obligations which She
wife must meet, and that the husband
may very well answer the demands Of
his spouse As follows:
Right. You shall have your wages
and + shall expect efficiency. No office
was ever SO badly run as some hornes.
That is the fault Of the svoluntsafysw . X.
er,fnc doubt. Let the wives have wages
in future. Then Husbands can bring
home whom they like for dinner. They
can pay half a crown extraiH
There is truth In the last remark, ana
the wives know 1t. Because they have
run the homes on a voluntary basis
they have reserved the right to grumSle.
1t would certainly ncrease the mems
seif:respsct II they knew they were
paying for services rendered. And there
is no reason why. when the business
basis Is settled, the relations between
husband and wife should . be in1prcv
cd.