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4 B THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 27, 1920 What Is the Relation of a Man to His Home When His Wife Works By BEATRICE FAIRFAX What is the natural relation of a man yti his home? "vVJiat part does the husband play Inbuilding his nest and in keeping It Weathered and thatched and warm and comfortable afterward? Here is one of the many letters which have come to me recently asking just this question: "I am 19, my husband is 21, and we have been married one year," writes M. M. "Since our marriage I have gone into business and have earned as much as my husband. In epare time, when there are such duties as cleaning to perform around the room in which we live, he com plains. He says when he has a day of rest, he doesn't see why he should work. But this is the only day of rest I get. His work is not par ticularly tiring, he is in good health, and young enough to still be ener getic. Do you see any reason for a man not wiping dishes?" ..To., make the last first and to Teply in one broad sweep of the pen (or typewriter), let me remark emphatically that I see every reason in the world why a real man may IWASH the dishes, and let his wife off with the easier task of wiping them I This question of the man's part in keeping up the morale of his home, has a good many sides. I've known a slipshod woman who had nothing to do all day long but keep her house in order who didn't do that. She'd dwadle about the halls ;of her apartment all day long, rush tc? the movies in the afternoon ana come home in the evening at about the time her husband did to oflei him a cold meal of delicatessen pur chases. Half the time the poor, tired man would have to slick up the sheets of his unmade bed before going to his night's rest. All the time he lived in dust and dirt which made his Once-cheery little apartment as squalid as a two-room tenement where 10 people sprawl about in a Bad and sordid imitation of living. For the woman who has nothing to do but keep her house in order and who is too lax and lazy to do that I feel nothing but scorn. There are alas I plenty such feminine slackers but the masculine ones for a change. . The man who marries a girl of the self-supporting, business school of modernity, does well to let her go on with the work she likes ana irom which she brings a share of the money needed to tun the home. But when She contributes her share (which needn't be an equal ehare in order to be a fine thing) to the IN tt foflbw we copy "c always originate, and never to be outdistanced iovoux presentations of the new modes I ixsUfWfi always Keep well in.tbe trjcexsQnswuQ JstttBtOifs'lEcEtlOKd t dencedJDonrsnow trig Of yjj. Summer SModes at pricea most moderate. 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There is no secret about H nor is there any doubt about the result it's just common ordinary buttermilk in the form of a wonderful cream, gently massaged with the finger tips around the corners of the eyes and mouth. Howard Bros. Chemical Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. Sherman ; bGfht?' j : p0fct household, doesn't the man with pride and fine feelings want to coun terbalance the money his wife brings in by extra efforts of his own? At the altar he's said something about cherishing until death parts him from the girl something about having and holding. There s been the idea of guarding and caring for his wife. How well is a man doing that when he lets the girl he was going to protect start off every morning on an equal basis of work and then lets her add. to the sum total of her exertions for him all of the housework? If their work ing life is on a 50-50 basis fine I But why should die girl add a full percentage of home making to her quota? Why shouldn't that be 50-50 too? For the man who slouches around in slippers and smoking jacket and scatters sections of the paper and aslies all over the place every Sun day all the old-fashioned house keepers in the world have ever had lifted hands and eyebrows and voices. But, of course, even when triend husband mussed up the place on Sunday, his wife remembered that he was a boy-grown-up and that this was his one day for rest and that it didn't hurt a woman who'd had it easy all week to clear up a bit after a man who'd worked like a dog. All right. Fine! as we said be fore. But if a wife has worked from 9 to 6 every day of the week, just as her husband has done, doesn't she need a day of rest just as much as he does? Isn't the strain of of fice routine just as hard for a wom an as it is for a man? All week long the woman of the family has been adding cooking and washing up and keeping the place shipshape to the office tasks, which are cer tainly just as hard on her as on her man. And on Sunday there are but tons to sew on, and hooks and eyes to tend to and handkerchiefs to wash and the dozen or other "little tasks" which give woman's work that try ing "never done" quality. What is hubby to do then? Sit back and take it easy, while the avowedly "weaker vessel" spends her day of rest toiling for him? Is that the manly thing to do the thing which establishes friend hus band as a true lord of creation who can be proud of himself? I started out to answer M. M., didn't I? Now I've decided to stop with a question and leave it to M. M.'s hus band and the rest of the men folks. AT Frequent Visitor s Miss Gladys Beaumont of Lin coln is a frequent visitor to Omaha this sumrrter. She is making investi gations at the juvenile court in con nection with her thesis for a mas ter's degree at the University of Ne- Mrs. K. R. J. Edholm of Omaha, executive secretary of the Nebraska Tuberculosis association, says Miss Beaumont, who managed the sale of Christmas seals in Lincoln, was one of the most successful workers their association has ever had. The Lincoln sales amounted to nearly $3,000, which is five times the sum raised there in any previous year. Young Women Starting for China Take Beds With Them. Because of the dearth and exor bitant price of comfortable beds in China, 25 young women, leaving for China this summer to do Y. W. C. A. work, are taking beds with them as part of their essential baggage. This same group, during their pre liminary training, recently visited a New York Chinese restaurant en masse to learn the art of chop stick eating. Vinegar will remove stains from zinc. THE E MRODIE People arc stiH going about with their eyes eagerly alight, hunting for die honest man and the honest product When that search is rewarded, nothing but betrayal can break or lessen their allegiance. It has been pathetically true from the begin' ning of time, that men admire honor in others even when they have smirched it in themselves. Humanity may be a million years old in point of time, but it is as young as this nwrnings sun in its pursuit of tie ideal. After two thousand years of disappoint' ment and disillusion, the eternal verities and the eternal values still prevail The elemental truths are still true; the man whose word is good is still the secret hero of our inmost hearts. We smile, perhaps, at the spectacular triumph of the trickster; but while we, smile, we hate the trick by which he filched that sham success. Even in an era of unbridled extravagance, when, on the surface, men appear to have lost all sense of proportion, that which is sound, and good, and true, is more admired, and more desired, than ever. In such feverish times, the mediocre and the meretricious only seem to be admitted to equality with that which is wotthy, because they fall heir to the overflow which excellence is unable to supply. The process of discrimination between the sham and the solid, the superficial and the Humane Meet To Be In Omaha Plans are rapidly being perfected for the 44th annual meeting of the American Humane association at Omaha, Neb., October 25, 26, 27 and 28. The selection of Omaha as a place of meeting should insure an unusually large attendance. The situation of the city near the center of the continent makes it easily ac cessible from east, west, north and south. Dr. W. O. Stillman, president of the American Humane association, has already entered into correspond ence with prospective speakers and a splendid program is assured for the meeting. One of the most en joyable social events of the session will be the dinner at which a num ber of prominent speakers will be heard. In addition to being a pro gressive commercial center, Omaha possesses a splendid attraction in the form of the Fontenelle forest reserve of 2,000 acres, and it is likely that delegates to the conven tion will have an opportunity to see much of this wild park. The Nebraska Humane society is work ing hard to perfect the local ar rangements, and it is desired to make the meeting in Omaha one of the most memorable in the history of the association National Hu mane Review, June, 1920. Woman's Success In Roosevelt Memorial The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial association had raised, up to June 1, approximately $200,000. This has been accomplished in a period of about a year and four months. The association has enlisted the support of about 15,000 contributors whose co-operation has ranged from the few pennies of an earnest and sincere school child to contributions of $5,000. The collection of the fund has been attended by very many pathetic incidents, an example of which is found in the case Of the mother who discovered a dollar in the clothing of her son who had been killed while fighting in France. This dollar she sent to the association because her son had loved and admired Roose velt, and she concluded that an ap propriate use of the money was to give it for the restoration of the birthplace. TRTJT H OsafTfctt Ms, CaaUkM atwOarOisas Music Celebrities This Coming Season The ever popular and charming Alma Gluck will return to the con cert platform next season after a year's vacation spent in New York and at her summer home on Fisher's Island, off the Connecticut shore. Interest is added to her return by the announcement that in several concerts she will appear with' her husband Efrem Zimbalist, the dis tinguished Russian violinist. After giving half a hundred concerts Mr. and Mrs. Zimbalist will sail for Eng land, where they have been booked for a series of joint recitals during March, April and May. Edward Johnson, the tenor who stepped into remarkable prominence last winter in the leading roles at the Chicago opera, has been widely heafd in concerts this spring. He is a fine commanding figure and was featured in Cincinnati, Evanstoii and Ann Arbor at the festivals. Mr. Johnson has been one of the most admired opera tenors in Italy for the last six or eight years and he more than lived up to the exalted reputation that preceded his return to his native country. The Worcester, Mass., Music fes tival which is the acknowledged first big musical occasion of each sea son, has contracted with Merlo AI cock, the contralto, for two appear ances in October. 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