Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1913 — The American Husband. [ARTICLE]

The American Husband.

The American masculine claim of absorption in his work does not in the least• justify such a condition. Frenchmen support their wives and still find time to go shopping with them too! 'Englishmen do likewise, and find energy left to place their sons in school, energy to watch keenly the love-affairs of their daughters, unhesitatingly bidding this or that man be gone; moral courage and physical vitality left after the day’s work to be in fact, as well as in fancy, “the head of the bouse.” They have the wisdom to leave hours for play, for pure boyishness of living. And . all this may be observed in the same middle class that with us turns the whole issue over to the wife, expecttag of her all wisdom, though knowing her sheltered youth; and all vitality, to run unceasingly and unaided the whole machinery of the family. No wonder our women have “nerves”! No wonder they are becoming more and more restless (one of the first evidences of strain), more and more discontented as time passes. Masculine kindness to our women is sometimes so tangled up with selfishness that there need bo no surprise that there Is smbs eonftmton regarding] them- .. _