Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-08-06

ting their eyes attended to. IL is be-
ing more and more recognized that
a wife renders services which, in n
world based on economic principles
| should receive remuneration either
| direct or indirect.
No doubt the change is in part due
to the fact that previous TO marriage
innumerable wives earned money and
employed II independently: such wom-
en- could not easily be treated as their
mothers were treated. Common sense
and right feeling would both revolt
against it. Nevertheless many girls
who abandon financial independence
for marriage still go through bitter
experiences.
forget, in the heat of modern rivalry,
that they have a duty which goes be-
yond, and is at least as important as,
the material duties connected with a
home and a family.
That duty is consciously to exercise
charm. IL man has TO Aconquer by
force and reason. woman has to con-
quer by sympathy and charm. And by
sympathy and charm she can con-
quer.
| will not call IL a weapon in the use
of which man cannot approach her.
ard she can use it AS effectively
whether she is nineteen years Of age
or fifty nine. She must not disdain
it. She often does disdain it. A man
who provides week by week the ma
terial means of life for a household
is entitled TO expect that the mistress
of the household shall put herself TO
the trouble of charming him. And
heaven knows that the simple fellow
is easily charmed.
II anyone objects that rivalry be-
tween the two sexes is regrettable. ii
very much agree. Rivalry in we'll
doing is admirable. but the sort OF
rivalry now existine--rivalry for the
possession OF privileges and power.
a battle between the .'haves" and the
have nots, and to some extent an
attempt on the part OF women TO
prove that they can be both women
and men too--this sort of rivalry is
bound to have some queer conse-
quences.
Abolish il. therefore?
You cannot. And / doubt whether
the abolition of sex rivalry at this
juncture, were it possible. would not
do more harm than good.
Woman Had TO Fight.
The present generation has been
born into a very exciting age. Even
without the immense earthquake OF
the war the age would have been very
exciting. II is an age of transition.
and especially is 1t an age Of transit
tion for women. Women have ad-
vanced. and they will continue to ad-
vance until a period of stability has
been reached: which period is assur-
edly not yet.
But women have not advanced a
single step without a definite fight
and without having aroused a fire.
quently bitter spirit of mutual riv-
airy. Very few people will be bold
enough now to argue that the advance
of women was not right. or that 1t has
gone too far. And looking back we
can see that the opposition of the male
sex was often quite unreasonable and
that the masculine predictions of dis
aster if women were allowed TO be !
this or to do that show no sign of
being fulfilled.
Who. for example, would do away
with women doctors or assert that |
they are not an extremely valu- |
able. institution. Yet the first |
women who insisted on being doc /
tors were forced TO lead lives which 1
to a martyrdom.
(And all in the name of common |
sense.)
And SO the great struggle pro-
ceeded and is still proceeding. The |
fact is that the male sex in this age |
has never yielded anything to the fe-
male sex without a battle, and some /
times without a regular pitched battle 1
involving serious casualties.This has /
not been because men more than /
women are horrid pigs, dogs-in-the- |
or odious beasts of any de- /
has BEEN because men /
are human and ii is not human to give /
UP what you possess without some |
altercation.
No! Sex rivalry now and for years
10 come is inevitable.
1t is a condition of progress. 1t
affects everything. And naturally i
must gravely influence the marriage
bond.
We have to make the best of it.
In order to make the best of it hus-
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