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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-21 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5

you get along so well on so little with the cost of mere living so high, and particularly do I marvel at your management now that I see where you are perhaps $250 short of the amount I believed you had had. It is a real joy to me to be earning money for you. You can't realize how really great a joy it is, and also how stimulating. I used to earn all I particularly wanted and more. There was no great reason for me to want more. But now I want to make things easy for you. To be honest, I don't want to make them too easy because I believe that the American man's way of lavishing money on the American woman is bad. It makes woman an ornament and a plaything instead of a comrade and a mate. It encourages a lot of vain foolishness. It discourages the wholesome family life that is the most sacred thing in life. My

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you get along so well on so little with the cost of mere living so high, and particularly do I marvel at your management now that I see where you are perhaps $250 short of the amount I believed you had had. It is a real joy to me to be earning money for you. You can't realize how really great a joy it is, and also how stimulating. I used to earn all I particularly wanted and more. There was no great reason for me to want more. But now I want to make things easy for you. To be honest, I don't want to make them too easy because I believe that the American man's way of lavishing money on the American woman is bad. It makes woman an ornament and a plaything instead of a comrade and a mate. It encourages a lot of vain foolishness. It discourages the wholesome family life that is the most sacred thing in life. My