Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-06
The HQski1 Letter o .s1ass.ss R.:sz
REyIvING MASCULINITY FOR MEN

swearing never to touch lip stick,
powder, rouge, hair nets, shoe polish
ITO rhair), or perfume stronger than
two and a half per cent.
This secret meeting shows the earn
estness Of the pioneers in this new
cause. Other signs, too, foretell a
change in mans status to parallel the
recent changes in that of woman. Up
to now, men have been standing back
while women picked over the bar
gains in rights" Women have been
doing radical things in business, poll
tics, professions, and with their ap-
pearance as we'll But men have had
no organizations to work for their
social progress.
Bill of Rights for Men
The first political agitator for the
cause of men burst upon the horizon
only few days ago when Maryland
senator presented a bill of rights for
men to the Maryland legislature. This
bill, we understand, was taken more
or less as joke. But the pioneer COM
forted himself no doubt with the re-
Election that all great ideas are apt to
be ridiculed at first and that he will
some day be famous as the father of a
cause.
It is obvious that with the status
Of women changing so rapidly the po
sition of men must change to fit in
with the new regime. So far men have
met the changes caused by womens
progress by stepping back, and to q
certain extent this was fair enough,
Seeing that men had been the privileged
class for some centuries.
But, eventually more equable re-
we were told by modest member Of
the herman clan who shrlnks from be-
adjustment Of mans status must come,
ing quoted. Woman, he explained, once
contributed the housework and man the
money toward keeping home together.
Now. some women earn money in the
business world like their husbands and
both come home at night as the hus-
band once did.
The Man Pays
The hitch in such arrangements,
when hitch occurs, is that the man
foots the bills while the woman may,
il she chooses, save her money for
herself. The husband promised to sup
in saving her salary while his goes to
pay for coal, groceries and the cook.
The balance Of responsibility should
De restored, lC is Claimed. so ChdL Dotn
parties would be required to contrib
ute their share to the upkeep Of the
home. This sort Of equal responsible
ity for married couples was one of
the items in the Maryland statesmans
bill Of rights.
The other side Of the case. which
has long been agtated, should be pro-
vided for with equal fairness. That
is the wife whose contribution to the
home is full days housework should
receive her just share of the family
income.
This is one of the questions arising
In connection with the equal rights
problem. Another was brought into
court the other day by a man of 10.
He asked that his wife, who had left
him, be ordered to pay him alimony
on the grounds that she was younger
than he and that she had money.
But the most serious problem, to
the mind of the college herman at
least, is the question Of appearance,
which so far remains largely unset
tied. Aside from his stovepipe trous
ers scarcely any article of his ap
pearance is safe from adaptation by
the flapper and feminist. And once
worn by flapper an article Of dress
never has quite the same dignity, even
on a diplomat.