Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-01
FINE young man and woman
of my acquaintance are very

"A OF my acquaintance are very
\ much in love with each 9TH
err. The young man is a clever IN
telligent, energetic fellow who earns
salary that in our fathers time
would have been considered amFlo
to Justify matrimony, and IN or
grandparents time would have made
him a catch in the eyes OF manag-
ing mothers, but that in our lays,
with the high cost of living, is TOO
slender a shoeString upon winch 70
risk the great adventure.
This young man will undoubtedly
lty be prosperous, and lDooS
the time he is forty-five o1 tltty
ears old, and has gotten set m nus
bachelor ways, and his heart has
tried into dust, he will be n d;
enough money upon which to sup
mort a wife. But twenty-five IS a
long ways from fifty, and you IN
dehydrate loves young dream ana
hava it come out of the can re vi
fter a quarter of century, ana the
Young couple want to marry no"
while the bloom is on their romance
and their hearts throb and qu'VeI l.
and life is still banquet on men
Inns instead of being dead sea Iruil'
Rut thew can't marry unless the
efr1 who is also earning good sal
ory. keeps on with her work. anu
| thew have asked my advice aooul
What they shall do.
say to them to get married, "hlle
4rev are still young ana stlll cap
,rve not to wait until life has press
ad all of the sentiment and romance
| o,,+ of them. Let the girl go OF
T,,itb her work. She will only De
doira wha. every true wife wants -
do heInre her husband, and 1t mat
| ,nIs not low, or where, that Is oole
y.b neither If, an office, or STORE "
a XII chez.
| ~ course for a woman to Worh
~ If her home after she is marrleu
y, ~ defiance of ancient traoltloi,
W. these are the times when ai
I,oarv traditions arc being sc: 1pp1t
n4i,or ti,nes. others manners. As
w. cleveland would say, it is Gun
Si+ion and not a theory that coh'
.1onts US. 20,
Therefore. we had as wen l"oe
the fact that the average So0'te ,r,I,
nowadays does not make elloue :.
money to enable him 10 suppo'.
! family alone and unaldeo' anu -.
less the wife also becomes n!on?S
r,aker. WHO adds 10 the tannlly 40.
come. there will soon be no h'oI'
| MARRIAGES, and no more oapleS
cent among the rich and Tue eloel'S
! And that will be bad thlnS loi
| the. race and for the country
The alternative IS for the !oune
r, marry. and the girl to adj mel
| nav covcI.. De to the Eldns pay ell
ya:orn since it requires oota 'C
srrnort q home. This may not ap-
| neal to the girl who thinks tha'
| matrimony is a graft, and VINO LOOKS
| forward to acquiring a HUSBAND as
/ meal ticket. but to the woman WnC
trulv loves a man the prospect OF
being his business partner IS ho'
without it's charms.
In reality. the objections agalhs'
a woman continuing on with her
| work after marriage are mostly
| founded on pride and prejudice. A
| man thinks that it reflects upon
him not to be able to support MS
wife in supposed idleness. The g1rl
fears that people will think that she
has not bettered herself by marry
ing if she holds on to her job, and
| SO lot luC SdhO VI "P9SS~N
couple drags out nerve-wearlns
| and art-breaking interminable en-
gagement, or else they rashly marry
and starve when they could be mar
| ried, and comfortable, and happy II
only they had the independence to
meet the situation frankly and fol
! the wife to continue her gainful &C.
cupation.
| Most women who have been In
business regret giving up their work
| They are accustomed to the pleas
ant routine Of store. or office, with
it's gossip, it's camaraderie. it's excite
ment of big deals, and they are
bored and lonesome when they
change it for the solitary toll Of
their own little homes. Moreover
they are trained to sell goods, or dc
office work, and they are bunglina
and inco npetent cooks, and washer
| women, and they infinitely prefer
| performing on a typewriter to per
forming on gas range.
For the poor man, when he takes
his wife out of her place of en-
ployment, does not sit her down or
| a. cushion of ease. She has to work