ome.

It is a strange fact that most men think that when a woman marries she
goes to her new home with as rigid vows as the monks take on entering the
monastery, or the nuns the convent, and they regard the suggestion of a
career for her, which does not directly bear upon the home, as domestic
treason.

There are some women, especially sensitive ones, who would never again
tell their husbands of their hopes and aspirations after they had been
laughed at and ridiculed a few times, but would be forever silent, even
when the canker of bitter disappointment was consuming them.

Suppose a girl has the brains and the ability of a George Eliot and she
marries a young business man who thinks that writing articles or books or
devoting a large part of her time to music is all nonsense; that her
place is at home, taking care of it and bringing up her children, and
denies her the right to exercise her talent. How would he like to have
the conditions reversed? It is true that woman is peculiarly fitted for
the home, and every normal woman should have a home of her own, but her
career should not be confined or limited to it any more than a man's. I
do not see why she should not be allowed to live the life normal to her;
why she should be denied the right of self-expression, any more than the
man. And I regard that man as a tyrant who tries to cramp her in the
natural expression of her ambition or sneers at, nags, and criticizes her
for seeking to bring out, to unfold, the sacred thing which the Creator
has given her. This is one of her inalienable rights which no man should
dare interfere with. If he does, he deserves the unhappiness which is
likely to come to his home.

A wife should neither be a drudge nor a dressed-up doll; she should
develop herself by self-effort, just as her husband develops himself.
She should not put herself in a position where her inventiveness,
resourcefulness, and individuality will be paralyzed by lack of motive.

We hear a great deal about the disinclination of college girls to marry.
If this is a fact, it is largely due to the unfairness of men. The more
education girls get, the more they will hesitate to enter a condition of
slavery, even under the beautiful guise of home.

Is it any wonder that so many girls refuse to marry, refuse to take
chances of suppressing the best thing in them? Is it any wonder that
they protest against putting themselves in a position where they will not
be able