Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — Style Mad Women Economic Burdens That Will Spread Ruin [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Style Mad Women Economic Burdens That Will Spread Ruin

By Professor SCOTT NEARING

of

University of Pennsylvania

IF the women of today continue to be the economic burdens to men that they are now they will ruin, this country. The wife no longer contributes to the family income by CREATING VALUES. With the increased standard of elaborate dressing she is often its CHIEF BURDEN. Modern industry has converted men into earners and women into spenders. The woman of today is in the third stage. First she was the slave, a creature that might be beaten by her lord and master. Second came a state of co-operate labor with the cook stove and the loom. r R r NOW WE HAVE THE PARASITE WOMAN. THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER CLASSES IS TO SPONGE UPON THE MEN. R R R Nobody is to blame. The women of today are not to blame for what they are any more than are the men. But the time has come when TWO ROADS open before the woman of the future. Either she must continue to be a parasite and go down to ruin, dragging nations with her, or she must become a producer with an ECONOMIO necessity for her existence.