Asked for a solution of the prob-flem, Mrs. Edison said: "It is undoubtedly the question of money andthe "desire for financial independence which has driven our women out of their homes and_into gainful occupation. When a:-woman obliged to goto her husband for every cent she requires for personal expenses, dissatisfaction -is bound! to arise, woman who does justice to her business of being the home-executive, does as muth as her husband to learn or conserve the family income. T am not talking about the women, and there are many of them, "who are wasteful and "do not wisely manage their homes, but. of those who "4A wife is not a man's slave.
She should be his partner and his companion. The husband should recognize the wife's part as a big part, and their arrangement should be a fifty-fifty proposition. A wife sonnet Keep her self-respect if she is obliged to ask or ber for money for her personal needs. Worse, stil, is it to offer to pay a wife salary. The marriage vow, "With all'my worldly goods I thee endow," makes marriage essentially a partnership. By setting aside a certain proportion of the income for the Wife's personal. expenses and a separate proportion for household needs, many family difficulties which hinge' on money-matters may be avoided, it seems to me.
"If we are to encourage our women to return to the home and to the business of home-making as career, we must assure them of 4 measure of the dignity and financial independence which they have found in working outside the home.
Deep down in her heart every woman wants a home, and most women want children.
And it seems to me that a solution of many of our present problems and our unrest lies in getting back to the home and cotting away from cramped living conditions.
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