| Show I I- I Matrimonial V Vacations c i By CYNTHIA GREY Matrimonial vacations The little ph phrase ase pops up again these da days Fannie Hurst It may be recalled had a seven seven- sev n year marital vacation I talked with Fannie Hurst or Mrs Jacque Danielson on the morning that her secret was was' as' as discovered dis dIs- covered Fannie just could not see why aH AU the uproar up up- roar roar We each have a life lite to to live JI aside from from wifehood wifehood wife wife- hood and hu b she said mId Why not give e eone one a another nother the chance to do that lob best beg I Ju Just couldn't write here her herewith with a man growling around And where In the w world would he be play his piano plan 0 while I wrote Tote ask asked Fannie casting puzzled puzzle d brown eYE eyes eyes s' s s yer ver h her r cozy flat above above- the greenness greenness green green- ness nes of oC Central Oh an infinite j number of h husband baI d' d a and d wife wit C artists and writers And nd musicians and lecturers and an d the Ilk Uk are living japart apart from fram one another nowa nO days whilst f professing to love one another dearly dean y and never ne dreaming of ot separation or ov Of divorce I have have- noticed that wives in the bulk and wives S of ot an older generation s especially make almost In Invariably Invariably invariably In- In variably th the s same sime me reply whenever h never this subject c of tf matrimonial vacations vacations' comes up up If they loved one another they couldn't b be be- C Capart apart they say thus neatly disposing of the who whole e matter But honestly and seriously and Md sanely now ca can n It be disposed of so j easily Is It altogether fair fall to say that two people d do donot donot 0 not love one another enough to be married if the the the- ever have any yearning reaming to to tobe be apart from one an aa another Lother L- L other and io to o do self expressive work individualistic individualist Ic work I don dont dont don't t believe it ft is is ia altogether fair Calr I am In Inclined In- In L- L dined to to believe that two twp people may be be- happily y married and yet desire something apart from tt the te partners of that marriage and have a perfect right rigi it to So so desire Aft After r all this per cent love of which ot our ur ir mothers speak was wg at least 90 per cent cent love of or Job ic b ba a as well weIl as man Wives Vives of a generation or so so ago found sell self self- r- r expression through their homes There was was a b big lg woman sized Job for th them m to do there thet Flax to be spun stockings stockings' to be knitted candles to h b be made macie dyeing canning drying the fruits mUs and vegetables But nut today's economic echeme has taken ten most of ot these Jobs jobs' out of the home Efficiency has m made de retail work worl yield to wholesale Today's I s wife turps a tap and and has her per warm and cold water Moves a slide in inthe the wall waIl and has heat Presses another button and has light It Isas is isas isas as cheap to bu buy canned nned fruits and ind c vegetables as to o put them up herself herse f. f As heap cheap to buy readymade readymade ready ready- made clothing as to make them As cheap As-cheap heap cheap to to buy stockings stockings' as knit them She pines for tor a Job She proceeds to do her Job even if it It does not hook up UD with her husband quite so closely as did the old JobIn Job In fact he may even be a a. nuisance She nay mav ay want him to have a separate apartment 0 or take a little trip away from her s so I that she can work But I doubt that this womans woman's love for he her husband band is any less than was ws her grandmothers grandmother's for h he her mate whom she kept clothed housed 1 0 tip he n ni n U il I and |
