The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-04-09
WIFE OF FUTURE TO
EQUAL MAN IN THE
BUSINESS WORLD

future will be wage-earner, that
she will do the proposing, that she is
now mans. superior in society and
education and will become his equal
in politics, industry and perhaps,
economically are the views being
| to larger church in Cleveland. He
who formerly held a charge in this
city. Z
Rev. H. Samuel Fritsch was for
merly pastor Of the Congregational
church in Medina, leaving here
about three years ago to accept call
! to alargeer church in Cleveland He
has recently been making a study Of
the problems of modern marriages
and courtship and breaches about
them in a way that has attracted
large audiences of interested young
people to his church every Sunday.
| "The whole future Of marriage and
the home is basically question of
economics, of standards of living, OF
women in industry" he declared.
"The ideal of man as the provider
and the woman as the home maker
may gradually become impossible if
the world goes on as it tends today. |
see in the future-not in my time,
maybe generations later-a home
HEADED by two producers, supported
comparatively by joint funds Of hus-
band and wife, when the wife is not
occupied by the duties of motherhood.
Woman is in industry to stay. This
fact has already begun to affect the
state of marriage in America. 1t will
continue to do so and not to the dis
advantage of the race eventually.
At present we are passing through
great change. The home OF the
past in which the wife was solely occu
pied with housekeeping and child-rais-
ing is fast disappearing. House
keeping is made easier. Standards Of
living are rising. The wife finds
time hanging on her hands. j What
re more natural than that she should
IL spend her time in producing know
re ing the joy of work well done in a
m world that calls for workers."
"The average young woman who mar
8. ries today" DR.. Fritsch explains
t. "must make her choice between living
IF most economically on her husbands
salary or wages, and going out her
~, self to earn, in which case she usual
9. ly almost doubles the family finances
"a Often her training has been away
% a%t from domestic affairs. Most girls
At work before marriage so she chooses
to continue working. 49,.
-. When the children come the couple
m,a 10 will return to the old standard and live
. on the mans pay plus what the,wom
an has earned. H. w
Husband and wife are always ready
and willing to sacrifice for a child,
a. said DR.. Fritsch, Zone child costs the
Al young couple of today as much as ter
e children fifty years ago. Sometimes
% misguided mothers choose to work ant
1A the result is only harm to the family
Nc Children must come first Woman
=, is needed by the children in her home
OF Twenty-eight new members wer
taken into the Congregational churcl
= last Sunday.
HC'H' LIZ ~. CluU IIlGL = 4 ueSud
evening at the home of Elizabetl
Branch.
F. A. Waffle was in the city Fri
;t day and paid the Sentinel his ,usus
NV visit.
o. Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Hobart, VIII
have been spending the winter in Flo
rida, returned home Monday after
noon.
Mrs. R. X. Caulk and son, Harr,
/, left Sunday for Dover where the
W will visit for few days with Mr..
Caulk's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. O. I
es Rank.
Six couples were entertained at a
Easter dinner Sunday evening at th
home of Miss Edith Shepard. Thos
who enjoyed the hospitality of Mis
Shepard's home were Genevieye Nicl
7. OILS and Leland Longacre, Elizabet
Branch and Welton Ferriman, Ali,
Best and Asa Dean, the latter of Lod
Marjorie Kindig and Bryan Case, Al
I'm ron, and Gale Dean, of Lodi, with IL
hostess. ~
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