Author:

Orison Swett Marden

Publisher:

Thomas Y. Crowell & Company

Year Published:

1915

Number of Pages:

350

Number of Chapters:

Sixteen

Sub-Title:

None

Just watch the man who “supports” his wife in the home. After the evening meal he sits in the library or living-room reading his newspaper or book, without thought or care, while the wife who has already put in a twelve or fourteen hour day, still plods on, mending, ironing, making the clothing for the children, putting them to bed, and then finishing up odds and ends until at last she gets to bed almost too tired to sleep.

This man who thinks he is the “working” partner in the domestic firm, the only one who earns anything, does but a few hours of intense work during the day; he takes lunch with his companions, perhaps at an expensive restaurant, often spends the evening at his club, and goes off on frequent vacations, while his wife almost never leaves the home, and has hardly any change in her life, which is, on the whole, a monotonous grind.

When the husband locks his office or factory door after his day’s work is done, he turns the key on his cares and anxieties; the wife carries hers with her from the time she gets up in the morning until she retires at night.

She never knows when she is going to quit work; and so long as her children are young, even after she turns out her light, she cannot tell whether she is going to get a night’s sleep or not. Yet she is, in business parlance, the “sleeping” partner of the marriage firm!"

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