Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1900 — Family Life a Bore. [ARTICLE]

Family Life a Bore.

r uiniiy Hie oores me moaern American girl,” writes “An'American Mother,” in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “She boasts that she has climbed to higher levels. She has done with needles, pots and pans, and—-cradles. The world is her field of action; it is waiting for her; its crops are white unto the harvest If she has money She usually begins to reap by going to Europe. She is there to-day by the thousands and tens of thousands. If the modern girl marries, her life is but little altered. She drifts here and there like rags of seaweed on the heaving waves. She does not want a home unless she has money enough to have two or three, in which, with a corps of servants and an English housekeeperin command, she ean have house parties the year ipund. If she have money she lives in a huge hotel; if poor, in a cheap boarding house. Her children are brought up on the stairs. There is not much of the cachet of the altar about that home for them. Presently she. too, goes abroad. She tells her friends that she is on the verge of nerve prostration, which is usually. true, and that Europe is the only chance of cure, which is not true. Her husband stays at home to drudge for the money which she spends.”