The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-26

We women spend much time In jubi-
lattng over the progress we nave MADE
and In celebrating this as the golden
age OF our sex. None OF us would turn
back the hands OF the clock, but, never
theIess there are timea when It occurs
even 10 those OF us who have achieved
the privilege OF earning our own bread
and butter instead of being fed on cake
by some man, that we overrate our
blessing, and that II we have achieved
independence, our gandmothers had
cinch.
lost Edens and beginning to feel the
apples lie heavy on our stomachs.
Consider the difference between wom-
an OF these advanced times and the
woman in Frandmas good old times
It is, OF course. n glorious thing Tor
door OF every business and PROFESSION
to be ope, to women and for every
woman to be able to stand alone, but
what a nice. soft restful thing II must
have been to merely be floppy vine
that some mans support was bound
to prop up!
1t is gratifying to feminine sex pride
to observe that in her co-educational
colleges the girl students carry of most
OF the prizes. but the woman whose
thinking was done between her male
relatives escaped q lot OF IVORY.
II is inspiring to think OF the noble
reforms In which our women are en-
gagged, but the woman whose horizon
was bounded by her own four walls
missed a great many sights that wiring
the heart.
Only think what a blissful state of
society Il must have been when igno-
rance was accounted womans CHIEF
| charm, and when she was no more ex-
pected 10 have opinions than she was
| to have a moustache. Nobody expected
lxaw
asked her II she had read the last
| batch OF problem novels or what she
| thought OF the political situation. or in
| ouired her views on the financial ques-
| ton, Alas and alack. the day that
| feminine fools went out OF fashion, for
| on that day did the modern woman's
| troubles begin.
Domestic life wasn't 80 strenuous
| then, either. Nobody exploited in the
| papers the theories about how TO man.
| age a husband, so women were saved
| the wear and tear on their nerves OF
trying the experiments that never
| worked out. Neither did women worry
so much about trying to retain their
husbands affection. They took II for
| granted that n man who spent his days
| toiling for his family was putting up
a pretty good living picture Of devo-
ton. and they let II go at that.
| MatrImony on Single Track Plan.
| Or course tnhL WAb bHpsHCp way
| OF doing things--uuite impossible TO a
woman who knows her Shaw-but II
| possibly explains why our grandmoth-
ers hair didn't turn gray az early az
ours does Matrimony was run on the
single. track plan. A mans wife was
either his pet or his doll. or slave. or
cook, but she wasn't expected to be
all OF them. and a vaudeville show
thrown in for good measure. as well. as
she IL now.
As for bringing up q family, one
small infant Is more trouble. anxiety
and expense In these sterilized days OF
child culture than dozen babies used
TO be in grandma's time. There were
no mother classes or mother conveu-
thong nor pasteurized milk. nor grade
A theories to harass her. She didn't
even know a child was an awful prob
lem.
She thought a baby was a little AMI
NAL to be fod and washed, and spanked
when II was bad, and kissed when l,
was good, and generally kept In the
background. II II was healthy and
turned out we'll, grandma took credi
to herself. II Il sickencd and died. sh'
laid II to a mysterious dispensation o
Providence, but IL never occurred 4
her that she was In any way to blame
or responsible for It.
Grandma Might Pity Us.
The modern mother has got an en-
lightenment about her children. ant