Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1959-07-03
Wives Ask:
To Work Or Not
To Work?

One question asked frequently by
young moderns is whether a girl
should continue to work after mar
riage. 1t is a puzzler for many
girls who feel that it is one way to
help out with family finances until
the husband becomes established,
but parents of newlyweds often are
opposed to the plan though young
people see nothing wrong in it.
asked 10 married working girls
how they felt about this question.
Nine of these girls between % and
81 felt if they had it to do over
again they would not work. The
10th girl has worked only two
years, and feels that she will give
up her job any time now, when her
husband gets promotion. (The
nine girls interviewed all said they
had the same idea the first five
years they worked.)
A girl who has been working
seven years had this to say:
Still Working
when my husband and 1 were
wed, he was a law student going
to night school and had a good
job during the day. We decided
that l would continue working un-
til he was graduated so that he
could start his practice of law
without any fears. He did. 1t has
been a long climb, but meanwhile
we maintained good standard of
living because of my job. There
is no prospect of my quitting right
now because we could not main
tain our standard of living. l feel
we should have starved if neces-
sary, rather than try to have all
the right things from the begin
ming. We cannot turn back the
clock and now we are forced to
maintain our good position in the
community. l am sorry that l did
not take my. mothers advice"
A woman working ten years
passes on this advice:
No Children
81 always wanted a large family,
but we have been so busy trying
to impress my husbands business
associates with the right table ap-
pointments, we never got around
to having children. There has al
ways been something big to work
fora new car, the mortgage on
our big house, vacation trips. We
have been so busy worrying about
money that we didn't have time to
stop and think about the important
things. Nothing would be more i'm
portant to me now than having a
child in the home, and ! hope it
isn't too late
A woman working Is years passes
on this comment:
81 have three children, even
though / have worked all these
years. / do manage to get home
shortly after they get home from
school, so they have not been neg
lected. The wrong thing about my
working has been that it kept my
husband from advancing until re-
Gently. He was a bank teller and
complaoent because he did not feel
the bite OF expenses as the years
went on with the extra salary in
the family. l became restless, how
ever, and began complaining about
being away from the children. He
became determined to get ahead,
and rose to credit manager, and to
vice president. l am leaving my
job at the start of summer vaca-
ton, but 1 can't help but think
how wrong it was to dampen his
incentive unwittingly, and to de-
prive myself of happy times with
my children"
There are many women who do
not regret having worked through
the years probably because they
have no alternative. 1t is the wo-
man who could have changed the
course of her life to the happy
housewife routine by making a few
sacrifices in the beginning, who
seems to regret pOstponing that
opportunity.