Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1910 — SOME ROLES FOR HUSBANDS [ARTICLE]

SOME ROLES FOR HUSBANDS

Another Presumptuous Man Attempts to Pick Flaws In Logie of v French Woman. Some presumptuous man published a list of commandments for wives, one of which ran: “Now and then acknowledge gracefully that thy husband knows more about some things than thou. After all, thou are not infallible.” A second and still more daring rule for wives was, “Never be aggressive in thy arguments with thy husband, but always consider him as superior to thee." This was too much for French feminists and no wonder. One lady answered the presumptuous man indignantly: "The weaker sex has not merely duties; it has also rights. Feminism is advancing, and nothing will stop it. The weaker sex is the equal of the sterner, Equality forever! Here are the commandments which women oppose to those of men." The lady then gives the rules for husbands with more spirit than logic: “Woman has a right to have whims; it is a privilege of her sex. Never put her out. She might have hysterics, which would impair her health and cost thee money in doctors’ bills.” Another commandment runs:' “Remember, good man, that thy wife is thy superior by her grace, her beauty find refinement. Therefore always worship at her feet.” Where then, good lady, does “equality forever" come in, if woman not only has privileges because she is a woman, but is decidedly superior "to man? Surely the strong-minded suffragist would spurn privileges of sex. In another rule the lady seems to show some sly knowledge of her sistars. “If, good man, thou desirest mountain air, ask thy wife to come to the seaside; shb will immediately propose a holiday in Switzerland." But this is a vary mild gibe at her own sex compared with her final thrust at the other in her last rule for husbands: “Man was created before woman as a preliminary sketch for the masterpiece. Remember, then, O husband, that thou art but a rough draft.” This ought to shut any husband up finally.—London Telegraph.