New Britain herald., 1925-04-15


 ing the man one better. Hence tho revival of the crinollne."
 We never knew that women were so astoundingIy interested in the kind of paiamas, bathrobos, slippers and cosmetics men have begun to bedcck themselves with. We sup posed these things were for private consumption. But then, there may be a horde of matters we are not well acquainted with. Anyway it doesn't matter:-it seems that women know all about what the sterner sex is wearing in the privacy of their boudoirs - presuming cake-eaters have such now that they even smear their beautiful skins with cosmetics.
 Another professorial slant at the new status quo which got a sonor- ous repercussion in our doddering mind had to do with this; "Woman now does mans work and gets mems pay. Hence she is easing up on her mans purse, That makes him ease up on his efforts
 In other words, if a man Is so fortunate as to have wife who is a good provider he needn't worry his skull so much about doing the providing himself and has an easier time and more" money to spend - presumably on cosmetics and lilac colored pajamas. It all reads very well; men are going to have much easier time in the future than in the past; they may even be able to spend some of their time at fash ionable watering places while wives remain at home attending to the income. Thus the old conditions will be reversed.
 From the standpoint of mere manhood - or mediocre manhood - there is nothing to fear in such a situation. If women want to earn the money after they get married, or, after they are earning shckels in a satisfactory manner insist on getting married merely to have a hubby around the house occasional ly, it would appear they can well be satisfied to let the "lords of crea- ton" really have the leisure of real )orfs. Heretofore man has been termed the "lord of creation' by sufferance, or merely because the term had euphonious sound; if the professor is right man now can really play the part. If married women no longer wish to enact the role of queen bees, letting the men bees do the work, cake-eatcrs naturally will not object if the queens reverse the situation and turn themselves into universal workers and providers while the lords" do the queen-bceing.
 The duplex marriage" as the professor critic calls those unions where both man and woman con- tinue at their employment after marriage. may have helped to im- prove the woman but it has not helped the character of man." he says.
 But despite what the professor may say about it. this new-fangled method of entering the marriage relation continues to increase. In the first place, economic law, which takes very little consideration of cupid's wishes, has say in the matter Two providers naturally can provide more pecuniary pro- visions than one, and great many ! couples seem to be of the impress sion that to have that car" and l live in fiat that costs real money" but really is necessary in view of their "cultured and refined 1 tastes" 1t is next to impossible tc 1 have only one provider, no matter how ambitious he may be. Restau- rants are open all the time and wiley thinks the restaurant and 1 hotel cooks are good enough fQl meals; laundries are overly eager tc do the laundering; delieatesser stores and grocery stores whict deal in all the canned material ir the universe, abound everywhere Man himself has provided th' means whereby woman can reduce the drudgery of homework 10 thu minimum. Some of our moderr wives sccm to think there is reall! nothing left to do at home so the! may as well work and help swel the family strong box; and perhap they have found that to be a sure fire method of obtaining new coats new frocks and new hats otener'
 However, there are some of th' oldtime housewives left, who prefe to remain at home and raise a fiocl of youngsters and work from dawl to dusk in tending to things do mestic. Their chief difficulty seem | to he thry do not make SuttiCien