Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-08
thce wife has been with US for four

Ills office wife has been with US for four
years.
You've seen her cvcrywheTe-a smart,
attractive. capable young woman, driving
ears, adding figures hitting typewritcrs,
filling hundred and ono war posts
The old argument of which We were 80
fond. should Married Woman Go 10
Business got swept aside With all those
other half-hearted things OF 1914. Since
then thousands and thousands OF young
wives. with husband somewhere, >
have been busy AZ their war job.
But the old problem lives
IL will bc one of the biggest problems
OF the afterwards
II Is 4 problem to-dul
Because m some cases he has already
come home
And She
Well. listen
Husbands are very ANNOYING At tunes
declared Rhoda u her family circle
Here IVA husband returned from the
last u 4 home post, and he wants her to
give up her Job
And very natural, too. remarked her
mother
'But size doesn't want 10. and why
should >lc' asked Rhoda spIntcdlN
~h, head Of her department AZ the
bank they thlnk IN twaiul TT 81 her
amt Site rcts and excellent -crcW Besides,
Il i-ut /, II he, an invalid They can
ca-i'e I'VE III rooms, CT get someone 10
run ftt for them
Nud what about her children asked
her mother
But, dear YOU know Sic hasn't any
children
rhaf q e,ur~, would alter matters
Hail 81 thr rirl- ST my place arc married
but Tho, haven my children
Then thcN ought 70 have, that al
We got - saN
Bhah .oakri a' Ter ~,~tcr with the
p'otief -dp,-- ~4N som, strange things
,,c..-ln.ul, look
oh ,,- went on her mother II know
,ouA Young p,oplc think YOU re very wise
nd 80 YOU are IN some things hut vCu ~
got this question al wrong
ou marr, son want Is get married
and then Nou -hrh All tic responsibilities
81 maIruc, Don't want 10 make or
tccp 1eur eWr BONES don want chill
drr lulAs hk, that have no business
ta marry ii al Mud believe that thIs
iuc-t hir;N -to-th Itl-wif, n that's What
] call hcr-i> making tFouhl, already.
and Will make lots more when All tie men
come home
AhHt lAAOAAN
Let me nnlsh and thcn m done.
interrupted her mother. ~ that way
mothers have ! may II oId-ta>hloncd
! don't mind olks 50 often use that
word 20 smother an old truth But when
/; glrl marrIes shes taking on Just the
biggest Job she ever applied for Il :
full-tImc loh II she works II properly,
Il gos lts Rough and II 5 smooth sides.
Ike eeerv other lob on earth. tut II she
trIcs - halyc Il with an office she simply
can't DO !usticc 10 herself, her children.
hcr husband ~ her home And II those
four alui- are Lot present, then something
wrong with the marriage,
Mothcrs the dearest old thing hut
.ou questions Ike that there are tlm,s
when 81, utterly impossible declared
Rhoda
But there AT, times when she utterly
right declared DIck Iust as emphaticAlly
Both girls looked At their brother with
interest IN other DAYS when they chat
tered il had 5ccn, DO shut up, YOU girls,
and lct fellow read -
e ouT>c don say anything "a them
carccrlng round now. be went on magma
uimou~lN Their husbands are away
often. and iAev mav as we'll do useful
and rcnumcTattVc WuTk-In fact cIrcum-
stauc,~ often fuakc il necessary
But Il you girls look at thl> fact honest
~. YOU j have 10 admit that many OF hem
start married llie these DAYS meaning 70
have ito ties Beginning IN that spirit.
IL probably never gong 10 hc convenient
Ia have tirs ii All or else they start
of with = hazy id,-. of having children
later. after j icV years q freedom and
enjoyment
some Of hem are going q he httlc