The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-06

home. There Is no romance that will
survive soggy bread. and watery 20.
/ tatoes. overdone or underdone meat.
There Is no sunshine in a house where
the wife has always got up the rainy
weather flag Of tears over the pies she
has burnt. No man can look forward
totcoming home at night, after hard
days work, to cluttered house where
the beds are unmade. and the floor un-
swept. and everything is at skies and
sevens. No love survives the perpetual
pounding OF the bin collector on the
door.
The first quarrel that the great ma
Iority OF young couples have Is over
the wife's incompetency to manage her
end of the joint matrimonial partner
ship. She can. neither cook. nor keep
cook. She has no idea OF how TO
buy, and runs her husband in debt.
His first disillusion comes when he
finds out that instead OF getting a help
mate, he has taken on himself bur-
den. and that the home that he had
looked forward to for so many years
Is not the place OF rest and peace OF
his dreams but a place OF turmoil
where a historical bride weeps over
food that is first aid to the undertaken,
and sobs out that she wishes she had
never married and was vas. back with
vently. II silently. Joined by the poor
goat OF husband.
or course. in time. the young wife
generally does learn to cook. and to
keep house. and to keep the bills In
reason. but by the time she has ac-
CURED this valuable information, that
she should have started out with, she
has brushed the first bloom Off OF mar.
rage, and Its finest rapture Is gone.
Her husband will never more see her
upon pedestal. but as a laundering
amateur, who didn't know her job. and
learned on him at the expense OF his
digestion.
Every mother might save her daugh-
ter from this disastrous experience II
she would, for no matter what ad-
vantages or lack OF advantages they
may have. every mother can teach her
girls how to cook. and how to market,
and how to sew. And no matter what
else she does in the world she 10 sure
TO De called upon at some time to have
That girls are reared without any do
mestic knowledge Is the mothers fault,
because all girls have an instructive
yearning towards their hereditary &C.
little girls always play keeping house,
and making mud pies. and having their
doll tea parties.
But mothers are 80 jealous OF their
own prerogatives. they are so bossy and
SO afraid that somebody else will have
some authority in their house that they
nSSP eiob AauSHtciS Out VI buo hltCilG1l
and never give them chance to learn
the things they need to know. Mother
wants her daughters to help. but she
will never. let them take any RESPONSE
bility. and 1t is only by doing things
with ones own hands that no one gets a
working knowledge of how to do them
properly.
Nor do mothers teach their daughters
anything of the ethical duties OF wife,
hood. They do not tell them that mar
riage means sacrifice. that 1t means I'M
selfishness and putting of someone's |
else happiness before their own, that |
it calls. for patience. and self control, |
and understanding, and tenderness, and |
that when a woman takes a man for |
better or for worse, II means being a |
good sport who swallows the bitter with |
the sweet without making faces.
There Is only one person on earth |
who can settle the divorce problem. |
And that is mother. In her hands |
rests the domestic happiness of the men
and women OF the world. and she
doesn't trouble to safeguard it What
a pity!
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