The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-06

AgulR and her bridesmaids arc gctti !
ng rcndy for Ku. The Central Afrlc |
an Shniia tribes are very careful
about proper marriage customs. tn
q young man serves on Apprenticeship
u of two ycars---no hasty marriages
and hasticr diroccs here.
this In addition TO hir regular job,
He will learn the righ sort ot
home.making as "a part OF his cdu-
cation the same as HIS wife has
| learned the elements OF business as
a part OF her life.
And some OF them are stopping
into this modern way OF looking
and doing things, evidently. over III
Chicago recentW n man, Charles f.
Champlin, went Into a bread making
contest with forty five women At the
| Evanston County fair and won flrst
| prize! Aud the prize, by the way.
| was work apron with dainty blue
| ribbon draw work embroidery II
| IL not known exactly what Mr..
/, ChampNn has danc with the apron
Perhaps he wears II In helping his
Ewlfe dust. or she tn helping him 10
dust it ho cXcels III these various
other household lines, too,
/ 1t not at all unusual to find fire.
mon who are accom- phished knitters
on American boys who have ro-
turned frum the recent unpleasant
ness across the ocean as cooks and
aeeai. workers And ON thn other
hand we find women lawyers women
politicianm women haukcrs, BARRIERS,
artists sculptorH, designers and even
women stevodoros
So that the matter OF division
Of labor Is more or less a matter
OF tradition ana not ability, And,
Mrs. Johnson aays, because mon
have always been engineers or cleo
triCianE and women mothers or
stenographers or housckcepors. some
still think that the divisions OF labor
should be sustained,
, 1T is medical opinion that II wom-
l en- have pronounced positive quail
! fications and men negative, II not
! infrequently happens that thclr tai
! ents ana qualifications are reversed
, despite the traditional division of
work" points out this prominent
3 welfare worker and leader OF wom-
Z ems thought
There is "a well known writer twhO
I refuses to let his name bo known
2 In this ConneCtiunl, who Whcu--At
= was young. was taught b1-b6th his
e father and his mother TO do all
9 kinds OF Homework, He learned 10
. easily and quickly that hts mother
' soon found that hls sweeping and
= cooking were bettcr grade than that
~ his older sister. when this mar
- decided TO embrace matrimuuy Ne
- says that he was very careful iu,
% deed in HIS selection Of wife, he,
Z cause hc wished some one who
J, knew how to make a good home
e And he was able to judge from
o practical standpoint,
x II think the men should wider
u their field OF understandings an1
y since tEo women have taken NJ
= mans work they should, an IN,
- more, know the womans side o
e the bargain" said !his broad mind
ed, "modern man..
s And | think that such an under
70 standing would so long way TO-
{ ward solving tho divorce problem. .
a he further asserted,
= And why shouldn't Il? Mutua
d understanding IS the first thing re
n qulred IN "a successful partnershiI IL
Il or lasting and helpful pact OF an
II kind, Let the man understand thj
Q wife's work ana the wife the mani
a work and a big step Will have beer
-e taken.
"a Professor Thordike OF Boston, ap
preclatins the needs OF a better
understanding OF the matrimonial
at problem, has approached II in still
1s another angle, He has made a com
parison chart OF men and women a.
oo that 'they may know where the,