Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1913 — HUSBANDS LEARN TO SEW [ARTICLE]

HUSBANDS LEARN TO SEW

Pennsylvania Men Are Training * for the Time When Their Wives Will Be Veters. Picture Rocks, Pa.—Asserting they were fearful lest the ballot be granted to women and the husbands will bar* to do housework, the able-bodied men of this place have formed an organisation known as the "Mw’s Sewing Square.” At their last meeting they brought sewing bags and their wives’ stock logs to mend, and began the task o! plying the needle In order to ascertain If darning was as hard as they bad always been led to believe. The Rev. L N. Earle, pastor of the Methodist church, who has been elected chairman of the "square," presided, and some of the work that the men performed is declared by their wives to have been far better than they oould have Imagined. *, The men prepared a supper without women's aid, which they say they ate with relish, and were all home before 11 o'clock. The “square" will mast once a week.