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66 Strindberg
Mrs. Hall. And now that the girls are grown up
and about to start in life, now he writes us that he is
bankrupt and that he can t send us more than half the
allowance. Isn t that nice, just now when the girls are
grown up and are going out into life?
Bertha. We must look into this. He ll be here in a
few days. Do you know that you have the law on your
side and that the courts can force him to pay? And he
shall be forced to do so. Do you understand? So, he
can bring children into the world and then leave them
empty-handed with the poor deserted mother.
Bertha, who believes in woman s equality with
man, and in her economic independence, yet de
livers herself of the old sentimental gush in be
half of
"
the poor deserted mother," who has been
supported by her husband for years, though their
relations had ceased long before.
A distorted picture, some feminists will say.
Not at all. It is as typical to-day as it was twenty-
six years ago. Even to-day some
"
emancipated
"
women claim the right to be self-supporting, yet
demand their husband s support. In fact, many
leaders in the American suffrage movement assure
us that when women will make laws, they will force
men to support their wives. From the leaders
down to the simplest devotee, the same attitude
prevails, namely, that man is a blagueur, and that
but for him the Berthas would have long ago be-
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