THEORY IN THE HOME.
The wife of Mr. Simon Nelson Patten, professor of political economy at the University of Pennsylvania, has obtained a divorce from him in Colorado on the ground of incompatibility of temperament. The proceedings revealed that the professor's interesting and outspoken . theory of marital relations was responsible for the incompatibility. Mr. Patten himself is an indefatigable worker, and believes that a wife, even if she has children, should go out to work daily until her income is sufficient to provide for all the needful wants for her children. ;■• '•;.- M;'-i; -■■-'■'->■- ■ '; •;' :•;,;"
His outline of the ideal day for a married couple, «s expressed in "a recent lecture, is that both should rise at six, that the mother should prepare breakfast; work six hours outside the home, purchase a ready-cooked dinner,, and find time later for the house-cleaning. "The whole idea of this is to take the wife away from the home, where she is often inefficient, and enable her to produce something of value while adding substantially to the fernilv income,"- .■■■■.;■ • • *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14109, 10 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)
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