Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 19 January 1933 — The Working Bride [ARTICLE]

The Working Bride

“Teamwork” Often Results in Happy Marriage.

"What do you think of these modern marriages that have to be undertaken on the basis of the girl sticking to her job often with the strong possibility of there being the only job in the family? This has got so general now that I see in a report from the marriage license bureau of a big city that practically all of today’s brides are working brides. Along with that goes a whole changed outlook on the home and marriage. One room and kitchenette will encompass all the hopes of ‘home' for these young people. I think independence and self-reliance for women is good. But can you build families and family spirit and home life on such a foundation as I refer to?” The answer is, I believe, that it has already been done. Brides holding on to their jobs did not originate with this depression. The idea has been in practice long enough so that almost any suburb can show a crop of couples of the vintage of eight or ten years ago who started out with both working, and then when John made good settled down to care for the cottage and babies. As little Tommy says, there’s nothing for nothing in this life. And the situation of the working bride is not all to the good. But in many ways it is distinctly a gain in the foundation of lasting marriage. Chiefly, to my mind, in the fact that starting with that kind of teamwork gives a girl a healthy realistic viewpoint on what today’s breadwinner is up against, and when her young husband becomes able to carry the load of a family, his modest success will not shrink to the contemptible in the eyes of a wife full of illusion as to royal roads to riches and husbands who should come home from work all set to take their wives out for a good time. ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.