Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-15
SALARY FOR MOTHERNOW
PROVES LIVE QUESTION
writer Raises Question as to Why
Women Shouldn't Bo Paid
for Work i'm Home.
REACHES AN EQUAL FOOTING
Eleanor Gilbert Writes That Man
ReJoiccs I'm Cherishing His Wife
as Long rs She Is Dependent ON
Him.
ny ELEANOR GILnEur,

Why is it," inquired Mrs j.. that
your typically 'chivalrous' man WRITTEN
In agony ut tho thought OF his vito
working for money outside the home.
while no placidly regards hei, work.
ing without payment inside the home
lie may bc scientific business
man, with the economies OF business
~ his hnser tips. and yet lie considers
h !. economic that his wife work twelve
Tours day at home just for her keen
instead OF eieh, hours a dav for sey
eral times the value OF her keep"
49, several explanations" observed tho
thoughtful SpInstcr Lady. Your iruiv
chivairous man rcjoiccs in cherIshinr
MS wifc as long as she is dependent
o oi, him, and SO constantly nils him
strength.
AS soon - his wife earns her scpa-
,ats stipend she becomes his equal
Snpcrior in earning power. Also he is
"p' 70 regard her working outside az
a. tanIibic advertisement OF his in
cilc'ency in earning livelihood for
TWO Supposlng his earnings alone do
nov permit the keeping of household
hniper and his wife must needs do
All OF the h"u3cwork alone, that situa-
ton liz within tho, home and Is so Gus
,omary that II docs not rcfloc, on a
man
suspects Neglect VIII Rc.uit.
man my because xG% sh ,hs ho,nn man ana 9sisfiS
are likely to he neglected IL the home
maker is engaged in outside occupa-
,!onF t!midly inquired one OF the
Younger women.
The wise married woman who re-
mains In business does SO because her
.trninss enable her 10 hire some one
who can DO her housework as well as
she herself can do IL or better The
ons reason why married women can
ana ana should work outside tho home is
that they arc fonder Of outside work
and do II much better than the daily
work Of the home. That doesn; mean
,hat they are less charming as home
makers Indeed, the better business
women they are the better home man
ayers they may become.
nerta'mly an women should no, WORK
outside the home. There IS a large
proportion OF women that love the
work Of the house and do il whether
married or single, whether 40 duty
Educating by Instinct.
similarly there arc large numbers
or women who love children and can
manage and educate them better than
ihN average mother who cduca,cs by
oncc. They arc the ogicai educators
OF children. whether Il is their own
children OF others. and they arc IN
SfIfa4S the state II 'heY do anything
How are you going 10 nnd such
women came the natural query
out having In be searched out. II
woman is tondcr Of teaching than any
ming else. let her have tho privilege
of teaching, no matter what her mari
tai condition. II che wants to so into
commercial neids let there he no Gucs-
,ionins OF her privilege in that diyoc-
ZION.
Similarly. tho thousands OF women
WHO are born cooks and love house
keeping can IND In the great demand
FOR house workers nm opportunity for
profcss!onalizlns their work without
waiting for The home that marriage
gives. In other words, m for mother
earning hor salary IN the things she
wants TO do-aud getting that salary.
too