Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1916 — COOKLEESS WIVES GET SCORCHING IN SENATE [ARTICLE]

COOKLEESS WIVES GET SCORCHING IN SENATE

Senator Smoot Says Wives Who Can’t Cook Are Getting Money Under False Pretenses.

Senator Smoot, of Utah, speaking in support of a law for federal aid for the study of domestic science, 'handed out a few warm ones in the senate Saturday. He said that the woman who could not cook and cook mighty good was taking her husband’s money under false pretenses. lie also said the following things: “If 1 had a dozen daughters and were able to give them $1,000,000 each, 1 would first insist that each know how to manage her home.” “The American garbage can is the fattest in the world.” “The day will come when it will be unpopular for a young woman to boast that she cannot boil water without scorching it.” “Today in America we find woman as counselor and partner, as God intended hex; to be. She is no longer the drudge, and something to satisfy the wishes and desires of men. “Domestic science is not taught at Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Swartmore. Nearly all these schools require four years in Latin.” “Few men get divorces from good cooks.”