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The Lazy Husband's Act

CityGirl

CityGirl

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No kidding! This is hysterical...er em, I mean historical.
Father's Day, not the Hallmark version


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Violet Wolff showing baby photo of soldier husband on Father's Day, Seattle, 1941. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved.

Father's Day may be a time for Dad to relax, but here's a cautionary tale from Washington State history. Beginning in 1913, Washington State law sentenced negligent fathers to Lazy Husband's Farms. The so-called Lazy Husband's Act went into effect in Washington in June 1913 (just before Father's Day no less), compelling men to support their families or else head to farms where they were required to work on public projects for low pay. The negligent dads received no more than $1.50 a day for their efforts, but the wages were paid directly to their wives and kids during the time of sentencing. Sound unpopular? Not really. According to news accounts, as soon as the act passed, officials were bombarded with inquiries from wives seeking to file complaints. In the first six months of the new law, nearly $3,000 had been paid by lazy husbands for the support of their families back home.

King County's Willows Farm in Bothell, constructed in 1916, handled Lazy Husband's Act offenders in the Seattle area. In 1920, the work farm was re-established on Willows Road NE near Redmond, where it was known variously as "The Willows," the County Farm, the Willows Stockade, or the Lazy Husband's Farm. Prisoners grew crops or tended dairy cattle at the farm, until it was closed in 1932 and prisoners were transferred to the county jail.

The Lazy Husband's Act was not unique to Washington. Similar laws were passed around the country during the early 20th century, when progressive lawmakers sought to protect women and children and curb abuses that often in the past had been ignored or simply tolerated as inevitable. These Progressive Era "reforms" are some of the precursors to the extensive family law on the books today.
-- Leonard Garfield http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/210979.asp
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I got no truck with those who won't support their families. The most effective deterent to those louts was applied to an Uncle of mine by the Ku Klux Klan when I was a small child. This Uncle would get paid on Friday afternoons, go to a pool room and get drunk. He'd go home broke and if my Aunt said anything about rent, groceries, ect., he'd beat Hell out her and the kids. One Friday evening while he was out drinking, a group of "rough men" pulled him out of the pool room and thumped him up real good. Told him if they ever saw him drunk again or saw bruises on his wife and kids again it would be worse. That lesson sunk in and lasted for about six months. Then he went back to his old ways.

This time, they showed up in full robes, put a hood over his head and took him to the edge of town where they tied him to a tree and used a bull whip. They then explained they had taken out an insurance policy on him with his wife as the benificiary. That one worked.

I wish, in some cases, they could do it again. More often.

Got no sympathy for the Klan or the Klansmen but in this case they did a good thing
 
Does this hole look familiar?
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I bought her a toilet for Valentines day one year. It lasted a hell of a lot longer than chocolate would have!:whistling:
 
That confirms it !!! I knew that I'd met You some where before .
I'm thinking in the dog house Circa 1984 ,or so . :yum::yum:
 
Back in the 1970's when my wife and I were dating, I had a wood stove and would spend some time each weekend splitting wood, stacking it, and getting ready for the winter. My future wife could only sit around and watch me as I didn't want her close to where I was swinging the axe.

Several times she mentioned she was wasting her time and she needed a splitting axe. So, at Christmas, I wrapped up one for her, along with her other presents.

She thought it was great, but her mother almost went ballistic. She thought I should be banned to the doghouse for life. That is until her daughter told her that axe was exactly what she wanted for Christmas.

Her mother joked about that present for several years.

Bob
 
:yum: Thankfully I don't have to worry about the doghouse anymore.

I do remember one year though when the ex unwrapped that cordless drill she always wanted.....:hide:

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