Husbands, Wives, and (Continued from page 501) Relations Law in New York State contains the following sentence: "Obligations of mutual support are imposed upon husband and wife toward each other and their minor children, and this support may consist of service, financial aid or its equivalent according to the situation and condition of the parties." The amendment would also provide that "the reasonable and necessary expenses of the family and the education of the children are chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife." This is sufficiently broad and general as it stands to mean next to nothing to the couple wrestling with their own particular budget. But it does recognize two very illuminating principles: first, that a wife is neither a minor nor a parasite, but a person who under given conditions has some financial responsibility toward her home; and, on the other hand, that the work she does for her family is itself a service deserving of financial recognition. As to the phrase "obligations of mutual support," that, to the National Woman's Party at least, certainly does not mean that the wife is supposed to put her principal or even her income with her husband's in a common pool. These militant feminists believe firmly in mutual responsibility, but they are equally insistent on separate title. They are afraid that where there is nominally joint control of property by man and wife it is likely, as the world still wags, to be the man who really controls! The most satisfactory working arrangement I have yet heard of is that of a couple who keep separate checking Occoquan Bays and Potomac River to Mary- A. T. HYDE, P. O. Lorton, Va. Opportunity to buy unusually desir- able section of Virginia. Offered at low price to accounts. The husband, as is usually the case, earns more than the wife, and each month he gives her a check which brings their respective receipts to the same level. On alternate months each one pays all the regular bills, and they divide evenly on occasional expenses, such as doctor's fees or a new car. Each one buys his or her own wearing apparel; each makes his own investments; and each saves or squanders according to his individual leanings. In short, the system allows the personal equation the necessary free play. Moreover, there seems to be no good reason why the same principle of equalization should not apply just as well to cases of the opposite sort. The wife may have an inheritance so large that it dwarfs her husband's earnings, but share and share alike remains the logical answer in a world in which women are growing up. Trader Horn in America (Continued from page 510) Schuster has dramatized "Trader Horn" in its advertising. 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Y., and December 1, 1926, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company. EMERSON used to say that only as far as people are unsettled is there any hope for them. In knowledge of the world it is only those who have genuine spiritual perception, who live above the beauty of the symbol to the real beauty of the thing signified. RECOGNITION of the wisdom of these observations is one reason why The Outlook is a journal of discussion and inquiry. Most of us are able to stand only just so much alteration in the scheme of things. Having once worked out our own formula for dealing with life, we resent new truths which threaten it. Yet, eternal change is the law of life and willingness to change with it the only possible mode of conduct. EVERY now and then, for instance, we hear from some reader of The Outlook who fears that because we are not satisfied merely to hold to old symbols we have, therefore, ceased to seek the truth. Some of our subscribers have chided us, gently, for allowing a discussion of birth control in our columns. Yet we notice that the Junior League of New York has come out in favor of it, and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick has indorsed it. It is a topic discussed everywhere. Can we arrive at the best manner to deal with it if we are not informed concerning it? AGAIN, many readers have wondered why we publish articles on marriage when the ideas in some of them are opposed presumably to the belief of the majority, and younger people-it is averred—will read them. The answer to this is that the family table is the best place in the world for the discussion of the vital things which affect us and make for happiness or unhappiness in our lives. All too often it happens that such subjects never come up until they have been discussed and decided without parental assistance.. THE OUTLOOK believes in bringing such discussions into the home-where they belong. 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