Suffragettes advice to marriage for young ladies

@ScribbledAdNauseum .......Some of both maybe. It wasn't against the law back then to beat their wives.

@celticeagle YEs, think of all those wives who were beaten just for defending themselves. For speaking out because they were tired of being mistreated. I can imagine there were men who would use anything a an excuse to beat their wives. The smallest grievance.

Yeah a lot of people here like #4. I wonder if the woman had been abused by her husband or if it was just that she was tired of not having the same rights as men.

Oh yes! I've dated and even married a few number fours before!

@crazyhorseladycx Unfortunately...

@ScribbledAdNauseum bless yer heart, we sure know how to 'ttract that sort, eh? sigh...

Yes, anyone can benefit from a full stomach. Even the most ferocious of tempers can be sated with a good meal. I guess the lady who wrote this was thinking the same thing. Whatever would make the "brute" more amicable.

@ScribbledAdNauseum haha.. yeah possible that climate was post war times during that movement.. and broken women all over just like current feminism and SJW movement.. bad times come so that good times will come again.. some people get hurt and it remains in their heart forever.. some women get broken due to men.. and some find life among men.. it's all universe's grand plan..

@skysnap The wheel of time. Things eventually come around again, even if they are different than they were the first time. Yep, during that time women were able to find more jobs as well, they had to. The men were coming home broken or not at all.

I am sure the woman who wrote this was writing based on her own experience. She was probably high up in the suffragette movement. I am sure she wanted to save young ladies from what she perceived as a bad thing, marriage that is.

Meh, this pamphlet was discouraging women more than anything, or trying to. Saying that low income workers were much more the type one should marry. I guess the low-incomers didn't have as much of a reputation to uphold and really wouldn't carry if their wives worked.. Which is part of the suffragettes problem if memory serves. They wanted voting rights, the right to work, equal rights as a woman in society. I can't say as I blame them.

It's defintiely outdated, right?

@ScribbledAdNauseum very

Yes, lol. This was written during the women's suffrage movement.

I thought this was amusing as well. I am sure it was written by a woman who was tired of being undermined by men.

I don't think it was tongue in cheek. I see it as someone who was an extremist so to speak. Someone who had been hardened by a marriage where she was abused. Maybe not as bad as all that, but I honestly don't think this was tongue in cheek. I don't know the exact year, but I think it was published around 1925 or so. Honestly? I find it rather interesting today. I can almost visualize the type of woman who would post this.