Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-12

| Three downtrodden married men have
filed petition in the supreme court of New
| York, asking for charter establishing a
bill of rights for husbands.
| And much good it will do them even if they
get their Magma Charta, for matrimony is
under the jurisdiction of no court save
Cupid's court, and the rights that husband
or wife do not get by subtlety, they cannot
| get by process of law.
| You might enjoin a nagging woman from
| nagging million times, and she would still
| go on nagging. You might foreclose your
! first mortgage on the affections of a flirta-
tious husband, but you would never get the
| goods. You might swear out a hundred
Epeace warrants against your husband or
Wife, and yet hive to live in a house that
was in a perpetual brawl.
The long of the law is not long
enough to reach into the privacy of the
home, nor is it powerful enough to protect
a husband and wife from each other, and
| whether married man is henpecked, or the
head of the house, depends upon the kind of
| woman he married, and his own abilities as
a diplomat Also whether a woman is
! treated by her husband as a parlor orna-
| ment or door mat depends upon the kind
| of man she married and her own finnesse.
Neither one get what is due them as a
matter of justice, for in matrmony there is
no justice. 1t is all privilege.
| Nevertheless, both the party of the first
part, and the party of the second part, have
rights which said arty of the first part,
and said party of the second part are in
honor bound to respect.
! Among the things that man has right
! to demand of his wife are
l. That she shall go fifty-fifty with him
| in the matrimonial partnership. She shall
| be working partner, willing to do her share
to make the firm a success instead of ex-
| pecting her husband 70 bear all of the bur-
| dens, and make all of the sacrifices, and do
all of the labor, while she reserves to her
! self the privilege wasting the money he
earns by his hard toll.
| 2. He has a right to demand that his wife
shall do her part in making a comforta BILE
home. That is her part of the division of
labor, and the woman who doesn't do that is
just as much a gutter and a Stacker as the
man IS who is too lazy and shftless to sup
port his family.
An untidy house, feeding a man out of
paper bags, and tin cans, and neglecting to
put clean towels in the bathroom ought to
be universally recognized cause for divorce
Moreover any man who is married to a wife
who drags him around to boarding houses
and hotels to live should have a right to re-
turn her to her parents on the ground that
they have gold brcked him, and foisted
counterfeit article of wife him.
3. A man has a right to demand that his
wife shall give as much of her time and at
tention to her home as she does to bridge
! and clubs, and causes, and that she shall sew
as much for him as she does for the starry
ing Armenians.
4. A man has right to demand that his
wife shall live within his income instead of
trying to keep up with the Jones. No man
should have to spend his life shaving to pay
for the reckless extravaganza of a woman who
IS determined to have the things she wants
whether she can afford them or not
o. A man has right to demand a rea-
sonable amount of personal liberty. Even a
husband is entitled to his evening off week.
and to go where he pleases, and come home
when he likes, without having to have q
family ruction about it, or be put through
the third degree by his wife. No matter
how much man loves his wife, or how crazy
she is about him, there are times when he
needs masculine companionship, and diver