The Nome nugget., 1924-05-03
MtyrHER-IN.LAW OKE DOOMED
 BY NEW ORDER

New York, IT Mrs. Clara A. ,GrswoiA. President of the Mothar- in-Law Association, has her way, tand women, with :ate exceptions, do have their way, civilization will have advanced one step nearer to ID" mfihEn ninm---s, ie;hs1 the milleN- saum of fGuraies--tor chen life for |, ,nosbersiu-lsw wil! no longer be one dsrn joke aker another. But the r,ilknnium approach ia restricted 10 tie fentn nc elem ent. because of the trouble of male caroonists and joke s.ers, who long have thrived on the i,uher -in-iaw gag. will have just be- gun. All this because she purpose of the iessTiat on of which Mrs. Griswold
 IS head. is to abolish the mother-in- law joke. thereby winning more re- srcct for that much maligned mem 1 brr of the human race, and to estah fish June ] as Mothers-in-Law Dos. "I have had q musher-i n-law and
 an mO'hcr-in-law," Mrs. GriswOli
 %aid, when she arrived here from {! Boston 10 commence organizing forces to win nripation for inc "nS-oppr4ssed woman, "nnd l know i from experience how mother-'n 1 law should be treated. have never lna a ,ls.'tv, l. fr. 's"n-in-law has beer kind and con.
 rate in every way, but I'll l am ;n the mercy of all jotcSter> Ini parasr;4plsrs who have lived on the molher-in-lsw joke all their lives. l want to stop them and get fG" ali muihers-in-iaw the considerations
 and respect have always had
 Partly to Blame
 And although the propounder uY The "Aunroe Dest,'tHsa for the home" contends thai the mother -in-law has
 been much abused, she acknow- Hedges tlrat some have not lived up
 iu h,tr idea of Il second mother IIloweyer. she insists il is more often i,a.e fault of the young people, who misunderstood their elders, than hat of the mothers.
 Therefore. in order that the moth 'rf-in-law joke may die a natural
 death and that this class of females
 may win the dignny, and right due lii Mrs. Griswold suggests that mo i,her-in-laws live up strictly 10 the
 Following rules:
 i l. Do mol live with the young
 married couple. for that is fahal to
 the happiness of all concerned.
 ,. Visit only occasionally. but
 hever for more than a week al a i time.
 | 3 Follow policy of hands off'' in ,he domestic affairs of married dan %lrters and sons.
 But while Mrs. GriSwold insists the proposition should be tifty-fifty il flair. with sons and daughters in turn showing love. respect and con sleration. il is safe to deduce that these acts will follow the natural course of least resistance If the mo- rhers7 7in-Eaw abide by the above mentioned rules.
 The "revolt' now in progress had it.' inception in Boston, where the headqua rters of the association are located. but Mrs. Griswold's cam paign will take her from that met rCpolis to the principle cities of the ecuntry. Emancipation here. of course. will be the incentive for sim- far revolutionary activities in for eiGn countries-or isn't mothers-in- law the goat" in any country other rhan the United States?
 Members Wanted
 Not later than next year the asso- 1 ciation hopes to irave a membership 1 in every State in the Union and then tG petition State Legislatures to es- Day, and in some way curb funsters | from trying to be funny at their ex- penss. Congress will not be appeal ed to, one member of the campaign party said, for it is the associaton's to have the present genera ton of mothers-in-law profit by any favorable Legislation enacted. tMo- thers-in-law can be pun sters, tool. |
 And-would you believe it?-this latest cataclysm of modernity is at- tributed to the mothter-in-law of President Coolidge. Mrs. Lemira A. Goodhue, who said: T should like to see National Mothers-in-law Day and to one George Nit ,hell. who alleged: No man may T