HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10440, 4 October 1911, Page 4

HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

In some English newspapers a correspondence lias: been started on the question, Should Wive® be Salaried? One writer says:—"Every married woman ought to have money of her own to do as she likes> with. There arc thousands of women who never have a penny that they can call their own'. It is a galling position for any human being with a ispark of independent spirit. ' Women have been inured to the ignominy of living on t!h3 icbarity of their husbands. They take it for granted. 'But it is time to insisit upon the elimination of s<*ntinient from the work done by the wrf© and mother.' It ought to be paid for. When a. girl marries she ought to be guaranteed a fixed proportion of her husband's* income. This would givd her economic independence. It would also give her a definite status in the ©fcate. She would fee a copartner in the home, and not a, kind of helot. Sbje would not be at the mercy of her husband's caprices. She would otioit Ibe subjected to the menace of desertion without amy provision for her ifuture or ifor the future of her children. If every married ..man were forced to pay a fixed proportion of his wages to his wife, there is no doubt that the' burden of marriage would not be bo. heavy."