Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1911 — ARE WOMEN TO BE PITIED? [ARTICLE]

ARE WOMEN TO BE PITIED?

Prominent Authoress Says They Have Hard Time, While Men Have the ; Beet of Everything. “Men have the best of everything," says a prominent authoress who has never before given any evidence of harboring a grouch. **They always have, they always will. They are a foxey crew. You can’t get the best of them. They got things started their way. Women are selfish. Why shouldn’t women share the sweet uplifting joys of dishwashing and cleaning the gas range? Why bar poor father from these enlivening pursuits? Why may he not make the curtains, dust the bricky-brack, and keep a stern eye over the Icebox and the garbage pail? Answei me that? "If she mends his socks, why not let him darn hers? No use in being piggy. She lays out his hope-to-die clothes and never murmurs, but he can’t hook a double back action gown without distributing profanity in job lots. "A woman must see that the paste-i board cover is on the cream bottle and) the laundry list is made out correctly. Her pictures or books or music are not to be considered. She must see to it that the cook does not give all the chocolate cake to her beau—at least half must remain in the family’s possession. If a woman is literary shot must not look literary. She can’t event have that satisfaction. She must bet a womanly woman. “The men are great jokers. They graciously protect us from voting, but] how kindly they let us scrub the kitch-l en floor, hang to straps in the street] car, and push the baby carriage. They! do not think it is good for us to go to! the theater often because that keeps us up nights, but we can take care of! teething twins until the cows coma home and wander away again. “There is one consoling thought Iq the matter, and that is that men think we are smarter than they are. They must think so, else they wouldn’t expect so much of us. A man thinks ha does well if he is a good lawyer or al good something else, but bless your bloomin’ soul, a woman has to ba mother, nurse, teacher, dressmaker, milliner, advisory board' on business matters and run a porterhouse steak establishment on a soupbone income. “When father moseys home mother must be sweet and smiling, never tired or blue. She must be calm, serene, beautifully dressed. In other words, she must have a smile with which to greet his manly grouch.”