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A TALE
OF WOE. "Why is
it that, in more than two-thirds of families the wife and mother bears not only
the children but the burdens and heartaches? The husband supplies the
money (generally not enough), the wife has the care of a growing and
increasing family, the best of everything is saved for 'Father' and
he is waited on, etc. If the children annoy him he goes to his club; if
the wife dies, why there are plenty more women for the asking.
Thousands of women are simply starving for Love and men are either
willfully blind or wholly and utterly selfish. You possibly know that this is
quite true. Another thing that has caused me many a time to question
everything: During the Christmas holidays many times I have seen
half-clad, hungry, shivering little ones gazing longingly into the wonderful show
windows, wanting probably just one toy, while children no more worthy
drive by in carriages, having more than they want. Love, home, mother,
everything; on the other hand hunger, want, blues (many times), and
both God's children. Let us hear what you have to say about this." B.
B. Why does the
mother in two-thirds of the families bear not only the children but
the burdens and heartaches? Because she is too thoughtless and inert not
to. It is easier to submit to bearing children than it is to rise up
and take command of her own body. It is easier to carry burdens than
to wake up and fire them. It is easier to "bear" things and grumble
than it is to kick over the traces and change them. To be sure, most
women are yet under the hypnotic spell of the old race belief that it is woman's
duty to "submit" herself to any kind of an old husband; but
that is just what I said - women find it easier to go through life
half asleep rather than to think for themselves. Paul says a woman
is not to think, she is to ask her husband to think for her. (At least
that is what the translators say Paul says. Privately, I have my
suspicions that those manly translators helped Paul to say a bit more than
he meant to.) It is easier to let her husband think for her even when
she doesn't like his thoughts. So she uses her brain in grumbling
instead of thinking. People who
don't think are ruled by feeling. Women feel. They feel not only for
themselves but for other people. They shoulder the burdens of the whole
family and a few outside the family. They do it themselves - because it is
easier to feel than to think. Nobody walks up to a woman and says,
"Here - I have a burden that's very heavy - you carry it whilst I go
off and have a good time." No. The woman simply takes the burden and
hugs it and "feels" it - and prides herself on doing it. And maybe the
thing she hugs as a burden is no burden at all to the other people in the
family. My dear, women as a rule are chumps. They'd rather
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