Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — American Wife Mental Companion of Husband; Queen of Home Salon [ARTICLE]

American Wife Mental Companion of Husband; Queen of Home Salon

By Dr. ELMER E. BROWN,

Chancellor of New York University

THE AMERICAN WIFE ANp MOTHER IS A WQNDERFUL HOMEMAKER. ONCE SHE MAY HAVE THOUGHT HER dUTY DONE WHEN SHE PROVIDED FOR THE MATERIAL NEEDS OF HER HOUSEHOLD. WHEN SHE COOKED THE MEALS IN AN APPETIZING FASHION AND KEPT ALL THE BUTTONS SEWED ON. TODAY SHE DOES NOT NEGLECT THESE DUTIES, BUT SHE HAS FOUND OTHERS FOR HERSELF. SHE IS NO LONGER THE MERE SERVANT, THE HOUSEHOLD DRUDGE. SHE IS THE MENTAL COMPANION OF HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN, THE QUEEN OF THE HOME SALON. SHE DISCUSSES BUSINESS AND POLITICS and the great world movements with her husband instead of letting him do al? her thinking for her: She keeps herself young, outwardly and inwardly, as she was never able to do in former days, and so she becomes the 11ELPFUI COMRADE AND CONFIDANTE OF HER CHILDREN. Jler influence ••■ er them, if she will use it, is greater than when she seemed io aged, much out of touch with her times.