The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-09
ARGUE
 WHETHER WIVES. OUGHT TO WORK.

 ried women work? is one of the questions now agitating the British nation.
 Ut depends a great deal on the woman, and great deal on the ca reer," says Dr. Mary Scharlieb, pio- neer woman physician. "A woman should certainly not follow a profession that takes her permanently out of her home, or makes such demands upon her time , that she cannot attend adequately to 1 domestic responsibilities. "A woman can be writer, lec- turer, a doctor or a musician and still maintain a reasonable measure of home life.
 q am convinced of this, because I have had personal experience of it's feasibility.
 Position Difficult "A married woman, however, who goes out to work in shop, or sim liar employment, Is in a very diff ferent position. She must rise early be at her place of business not later than nine as rule and re- turns home so late as to practically preclude normal family intercourse.
 Let women, wherever possible, choose suitable professions, and there will be nothing incompatible with the married state.'
 actress, is absolutely opposed to married women working.
 Decidedly not" she says. "A married woman should devote her self to her husband if she wants her home to be happy one in the truest sense.
 "The hundred and one things to be done about house-looking after the home, ordering meals, bringing up children-con only properly be done by a wife; besides, the mere fact of the wife having done them will please the husband.
 When a man comes home after a days work he often wants to dis cuss his affairs with his wife; but if the wife has been out all day, as well, following her profession, she will not want to listen to him. She will want to talk business, too, and the result will simply be petty quar- rels, which, as all the world knows, are a frequent source of unhappy married life.
 "Finally, I think often the profes- sional woman loses more of her fem ininitiy than any woman can afford to lose"
 Favors Liberty
 Miss Phyllis Monkman, famous singer, thinks that women should be allowed to do as they like in the matter.
 "Let women work and have com plete liberty in working" she says. "Of course, if woman has chil- dren she must give up as much of her work as will allow her to show them proper attention, but beyond that there Is nothing whatever to be said against the married woman following career.
 'If the husband is man of slender means, then work for the woman is very good thing indeed, for then little money can be set aside for pleasure, and the entire income be not absorbed in providing the bare necessaries of life.
 But, over and above these points, woman should, wherever possible, have something to interest her in the outside world.
 "So far from creating morbid and romantic tendencies, it broadens the mind"
 May Sinclair favors the idea of careers for married women.
 ''I certainly think" she says, "that a career for a woman, when she is fitted for it, is a very good thing, whether she be married or single,
 Naturally the husbands, I SUD- pose, would prefer their wives to stay at home-although, not being a husband I cannot speak authorita- lively.
 "Present-day conditions make it more necessary than in past years for woman to follow a profession, and, in addition, it encourages early marriage, which is good thing
 "Careers for married women have undoubetdly been a great success in the United States"
 Depends on Woman
 Miss Sybil Thorndike, famous tragic actress, who is married and has some bonnie children of her own, thinks that the question de- pends entirely upon the woman.