Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04
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Alien Writer Deems Americans Too Much Concerned
About What Their Neighbors Do-Cant Understand
Why Weaker Sex Generally for Prohibition.

which produced Julia Ward Howe
and Jane Adams VIII no, waste their
tremendous force for good on trivial
things like cigarettes and short
! skirts!
The Cnusc Of "Domr.tic Trouble"
In no small measure. Carol Kcnni-
colt. heroine OF the novel Main
Street represents great many
American women have seen. mean
those American women who deeply
In love with their husbands. still have
no part In their husbands careers.
| No doubt pondcrablc amount OF
So called domestic trouble" In the
United states Is caused by that fact.
! The woman exists merely for the
mans entertainment outside OF his
business life. and in America his bust
ness life is much greater proportion
( Of his whole existence than with us
! at home.
| chivalrous. though,fui OF her com
/ fort. generous and polite 10 his wife,
the American man seldom regards
her as his intellectual equal. He has
no wish 10 let her help him with his
problems. He and she do not share
their cork. But unless tho partner
ship takes in every phase OF lie. l
! do not think II turns out we'll.
/ Az She Secs American Home Life.
| Denied participation in his career.
| the wife seeks recreation and means
OF expression eisewhcre-often out
side her home life. And the husband.
though he himself has. in ninety nine
cases out of 100. deliberately barred
| her from participation In his career
on the ground that she could not
grasp tho intricacies Of business, and
that her place Is in the home" never
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to fatal alien intimacy by business
assoc lation with another woman!
English women have this advan
tagc over the American women---or
at least large number Of the
Weather class: they find more In
tercst in their homes. their gardens
their chiidren than Americans. they
read more deeply; their knowledge
Of politics Is real and practical IT
I is thus that they are able TO achieve
n closer intimacy with their hus'
bands.
hold Or. Kcnnico,t greatly to
I blame for Carols rcstlessncss anC
1 the failure of her life. He SHOULD
have charged her with certain re-
! sponsibilitics He should have iii
rccted her to visit his sick TO he'll:
| him In cnecting their cures.
The Size of Families.
II Is a boast OF minc-a fact al
which am prouder than ever since
| ! visited America-that I walked
step by step with my husband. fol
| lowing every event OF politics. ever,
detail Of career for the quarter cen
tury Of his public lifc.
My husbands day lasted from Il
| in tho morning TO after midnight.
would follow him. whenever could
tho lnNp Tho n1Orrirp
and ! listened TO hour after hour 0
debate in the House OF Commons IL
the afternoon and evening. Had
not done that would not have beer
able TO share his life
kennicott was responsible for an
other lack in Carols life. and typi
! fes. 10 a large extent, the America
| man In his attitude toward the rails
| ing of family. The doctor o
Main Street" decided to walt unit
| he could afford children-much a
! though he would put of buying
/ more expensive make OF motor car
! There is unquestionabiy n tendency
among American women. inspired.
/ am sure. by ,Acir husbands, 20 lmi
The size OF their families. This Il
/ an old subject. handled from the sid.
/ Of the Pablo veal by no less Il per
sonaEe than the late MT. Roosevelt
! ON this side OF tho matter necc
only say / believe that the world /:
/ governed by the races OF unrestricte,
! progeny.
! Family Would Have saved Her.
Blu; Carol would have found If
/ fuller and more interesting had sh
had large family. She expended
/ much love upon herself. Her chill
| dren. had she been allowed a,
! average family, would have absorbed
that love and sanctified IL: the,
would have satisfied the yearnin: