Show 11 I WHY WOMEN CRAVE EXCITEMENT I ri i I T By F. F I. I MAC LEAN i All women fear dullness as If It It I were the plague With married women women wo- wo woI men the fear often amounts to an fl obsession Easygoing husbands do not realIze realize realize real real- ize the intensity of this dread They reason reson that it must be due to the inherent t perversity of or women and feel aggrieved that their well-meant well efforts to relieve the tedium of the daily dally round of housekeeping and looking after the children by occasIonal occasional occasional occa occa- outings are not better Once upon a time time they say a dull life was the universal lot of woman In Ia those off far days women were or seemed to be content to sit and sew in their homes their only en entertainment en- en tes a bit of scandal gossip with those of her own sex Look say men at the number and variety of the diversions offered them noW nowr What is not perceived is that the I J modern craving for excitement the I intense seemingly unreasonable I I dread of dullness is directly traceable trace- trace t able lable to these centuries of dull ex- ex One One knows knows what happened during the war In that strangely moving EnglisH novel The Way of Revelation Revelation Revelation tion the heroine Rosemary Meynell Mey- Mey Ie nell gives her heart quite definitely to her boy lover Adrian Knoyle Knoye But Adrian is called awa away to the fighting and Rosemary proves eves tobe tobe to tobe be one of those to whom war work at home was insufficient d dIs I traction She has an independent I streak in her character prompting the assertion of her right to choose I her own friends and perhaps the feminine instinct to heighten her bet real rea lovers lover's ardor by showing partiality par par- for a second string j I Anyhow when Adrian I goes away Rosemary's penchant for the clever indispensable Cyril Upton is strengthened She is drawn into his very un set and acquiesces In Sn n his amorous advances DREARY DAYS Discovery follows when Adrian wounded returns unexpectedly His Ills belief bellef in her hel is sha shattered all ll is over I between veen them and the only course open to Rosemary is to resume her I rush to moral and physical ruin Why Why loving Adrian did sh she let I li him hm m go go gos go's s so lightly and lightly and what for forr The faced sallow faced and generally repulsive Upton lacks All lt the qualIties Adrian possesses possesses good good looks a clean way of life a high sense of honor and p patriotism an enduring fidelity Upton Is an intellectual and that is all He lie is a shirker where theother the theother other othel is a hero he is as shallow and insincere in love making as the other other other oth oth- er is earnest as ns repulsive e physical physical- I ly 13 as Adrian is attractive e. e ron How then could any young oung girl hesitate between the two men when t the he t moment for deciding arrived 1 How could she finally decide in UPton's Upon's Upton's Up UP- I t tons ton's favor when hen she plainly did not 1 l love ove him The ans answer r is supplied by Rosemary's Rosemary's Rosemary's Rose Rose- marys mary's last miserable confession to Adrian She could not face the sepI separation separation sep sep- I from him the him the vista of dreary monotonous days the hours of Idleness plus the dead weight of or anxiety that his absence at the front opened up There were hundreds of such cases during the war Soldiers be became became became be- be came engaged or married went outto out outto to the trenches and the horrors of carnage and came back to find their I love betrayed Only a proportion of these cases were were ver alliances or promises promises' lIgh lightly contracted the contracted the kind one might ex expect exi ex- ex expect i peet to be dissolved or broken war or no war Too many unfortunate unfortunate- unfortunately ly were those of couples who had been married some years had children children chil chil- dren dlen even There were actually some cases case where the soldier husband had charged his best friend to comfort his wife's loneliness with results disastrous to his own happiness GOOD MARRIAGE MOTTO Almost with one voice people I blamed the war for these happen happen- ings lags In the hectic atmosphere women womer t were said saia t to to have lost their heads under the stress and strain ordinary r conventions were dropped temptation tion increased opportunity became 5 easier Quite true but not all the truth For Eves Eve's incomprehensible lapses lapse from duty and nd honor were observable observable able a very long time before 1914 not to mention their fairly frequent occurrence in t the e last st two or three thre e years ears In fact from the time of he her emancipation and the dawning o or opportunity she has been engaged It in ina ina I a perpetual struggle with her own owl dread of dullness and when th the I dread has mastered her she ha has fallen There Theae were were and are placid WOmen women women wo men temperamentally dull creatures creature for fOI whom dullness holds no n-a terrors But they are a disappearing minority mi ml- The average woman of to day requires interest excitement in ii liberal doses Dullness is suffering to-I to S San an an insupportable ble thing One hears still of womans woman's wonderful won won- powers of endurance of or he her capacity for sacrifice for the sak sake of those she loves lo But It is ts th the e wise husband who realizes that tb the S endurance is mainly that of bodil bodily ills and who does not strain the th a sacrificial capacity I by condemning g his wife to long dull evenings e alone For no marriage can turn ou out outwell outwell t twell well when the motto Business 5 first is s translated Into irto Business or the excuse of business alwa always s |