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Women Loom As Future’s Stronger SexDR. TENENBAUM SAYS MAN’S DOMINANCE THREATENED BY FEMININE RISElt;8lly LAURA LOU BROOKMANNEW YORK — The men folk had better step spryly to regainground dost to women, says Dr* Joseph Tenenbaum, That Is, If theyr • . ' •want to keep any rights at all for themselves — a latch key, a little loose change in their pockets, some “say” in the matter of where* 'm •junior is going to school and whomDaughter shall marry, use of thefamily car now arid then, and maybe an occasional night out with“the boys/'Otherwise, thinks Dr* Tenen*^ baum, America Is likely to see a return to the Age of Amazons.Distinguishedin medical, educational and literary circles, Dr. Ten-enbaum has given years of research . to. the . subject of women’s social and economic position through the ages. He undertookthis study in preparation for his book, “The Riddle of Woman.*' The doctor Is Quick to explain that, though woman is a riddle and probably will; remain one, he doesn’t pretend to have found the answer.* * . * 'Marriage Manifestations“At the rate things are going today,” he says, “it - seems inevitable that men will soon do little more than take orders. It happened 3,000■1i■svr-Dr. Joseph TenenbaumIn Samoa the husband Is an absolute bond slave of his mother-in-law.iAmong the Turages a man’s property and titles are handed doWn, not to his children, but to his sister’s children.In Ceylon It is customary for one years aero in Eirvnt. whv i wife to have from four to six hua-with nothing to do all day, and the woman who drives herself, trying to cam a living and at the same time keep a home, are equal problems to society, according to the doctor.“One becomes an Amazon,” he says, and the other nagger.” Between these extremes there must be, Dr. Tenenbaum thinks, a happy medium — something between a career and a caress.’Dr. Tenenbaum would like to see the courses in every public school to train young people for marriage.“The schools,” he says, “teach girls how to make a living, but never how to make a home. They are adding yearly to the increasing number of spinsters. Marriage is the biggest, most difficult job in the world, yet girls are given no preparation at all for it.”* * *Men Need Home Life When Dr, Tenenbaum speaks of the home lie becomes particularly earnest.“Home life/ he says, has suffered and is suffering — and we see the consequences everywhere. Men, with all the substitutes they can get elsewhere, need a home, a place to relax, where there is someone to understand and encourage them,“Broken homes provide, not onlyB uAeve]ingthesceiwreEmasoftheTsidithisevepia:cho0lingsilvcalcIveaJ\thiithefineFthefersEvlt;ped
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Sandusky Star Journal
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Fri, Nov 20, 1936
Page 13
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