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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January-March 1919

1919-01-21 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 6

notion is that a man should want to be able to give his wife a comfortable home, to relieve her of difficulty about obtaining the necessities of life for herself and her family, to fill her life with the solid pleasures of books and plays and music and nature and good human associations and all the cultural influences that really make life worth living. I think he should want to feel that his wife is his comrade and help-mate in thought and deed. There are many such husbands and wives among folks of the upper middle class and middle class financially. And they are much happier, I am sure, than the very rich husbands and very pampered wives. You understand me, don't you dear? Though you have never expressed your notion I've felt before now that it is much the same. A woman ought to be independent. To do that she ought to be a real comrade for her husband. I don't mean that she ought to work beside him at the bread-winning. That is rightly the

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notion is that a man should want to be able to give his wife a comfortable home, to relieve her of difficulty about obtaining the necessities of life for herself and her family, to fill her life with the solid pleasures of books and plays and music and nature and good human associations and all the cultural influences that really make life worth living. I think he should want to feel that his wife is his comrade and help-mate in thought and deed. There are many such husbands and wives among folks of the upper middle class and middle class financially. And they are much happier, I am sure, than the very rich husbands and very pampered wives. You understand me, don't you dear? Though you have never expressed your notion I've felt before now that it is much the same. A woman ought to be independent. To do that she ought to be a real comrade for her husband. I don't mean that she ought to work beside him at the bread-winning. That is rightly the