Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — THE HOMEMAKER. [ARTICLE]

THE HOMEMAKER.

Man ’« Chivalry to the Feted Goddear of the Fireside. As we men frequently admit, it it our chivalrous regard for women which leads us to desire that she shall confine her wholly admirable energiei to making of our home and the keeping of our houses.' She is tendfei and frail, and so we urge that she shall not for a moment drop her role as the goddess of the household. There is nothing that so arouses our almosl sacred admiration as to see our own particular goddess with a dlshrag in one hand and a frying pan in the other. Let us never desert this high ideal of womanhood and its lofty purpose in life. Particularly let us not do so bo cause if a woman, does not keep the house it will not be kept. Would we men engineer and prepare 1,095 meals s in one year? Would we wash dishes 1,095 times, wipe them 1,095 times sdw, darn, mend, devote our lives tc a gray monotony of treadmill effort 1 Not on your life! Our chivalrous re gard for adored woman would not per mil it. And we would go crazy within six months if we tried. I know ol nothing thaCwe should cling to mbre closely than this chivalrous regard for our womankind. It saves the cost of many and many a hired girl. I have penned this little tribute tc man’s chivalrous regard for woman because anybody can see that it deserves it. Woman, the housekeepei (and nothing else), the fried goddess of the fireside, the queen of her domestic domain, with a stewpan for a tiara and a stove hook for a scepter, let us together pledge her, while w< register our chivalrous vow that we will keep her where she is unless we men need her as a stenographer oi something else, in which event oui chivalrous regard may stretch a few points.—California Monthly.