The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-03
ENGLISH SPLI |
OVER WIVES
WORK
Theory That Home Life Is Chief
Sphere Has Many
Disputants.
BY F. A. WRAY.
international News Service.


/ international News Service.
LONDON. Feb. 3.-Should mar
ried women work? is one OF the
questions now agitating the British
nation.
1T depends a great deal on the
woman, and great deal on the
career" says DR.. Mary Scharlieb,
pioneer woman physician.
"A woman should certainly moi
follow a profession that takes her
permanently out of her home, or
makes such demands upon her time
/ that she cannot attend adequately
to domestic responsibilities.
A woman can be a writer, q
lecturer, doctor or musician
land still maintain a reasonable
measure of home life.
II am convinced of this, because
have had personal experience Of
i its feasibility.
Position Difficult.
"A married woman, however. who
goes out to work in a shop. or
similar employment, is in a very
different position. She must rise
/ early, be at her place of business
mot later than 8 as a rule and re-
1 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"
Miss Barbara Hoffe, welLknown
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 a happy one in the
tru&t sense.
Whe hundred and one things to
be done about a house-loolxing
after the home, ordering meals,
bringing up chiIdren-can 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
discuss his affairs with his wife;
I but if the wife has been out all day,
as well, following her profession, she
| viii not want to listen to him. She
/ will want to talk business, too, and
the result will simply be petty
quarrels, which, as all the world
| knows, are a frequent source of
unhappy married life.
/ Finally, I think often the profess
| sionaI woman loses more OF her
femininity than any woman can
afford to lose"
se Favors Liberty.
Miss Phyllis Monkman, famous
singer, thinks that women-sshou
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 a woman has chill
dren she must give up as much of
her work as win allow her to show
them proper attention, but beyond
| that there is nothing whatever to
be said against the married woman
following a career.
/ IF the husband is a man of slen-
der means, then work for the
woman is, very good thing in
deed, for then little money can
be set aside for pleasure, and the
entire income be not absorbed in
providing the bare necessities of
life.
but, over and. above these points,
a woman should, wherever pos
sible, have something to interest
her in the outside world.
$50 far from creating morbid
and romantic tendencies, it broad
ems the mind"
May Sinclair favors the idea of
careers for married woman.
| at certainly think" she saws,
| that career for woman, when
thing, whether she be married or
single.
Naturally the husbands, sup
pose, would prefer their wives to
stay at home-although, not being
husband / cannot speak authori-
| tatively.1
Present day conditions make It
more necessary than in past years
| for a woman to follow a profess
sion, and, i'm addition, it encour7
ages early marriages, which is a
good thing.
I Careers for married women have
undoubtedly been a. great success
in the United States"
Miss Sybil Thorndike, famous
tragic, actress who is married and
has some bbnnie children of her
own, thinks that the question de-
ponds entirely upon the woman.
eff the woman has a profession
to which years of study and work
have been devoted" she says, "she
should not be expected to give il.
up upon marrying. If it means
anything to her she will not throw
it up"