Show i I I I I I Nat t Goodwin G t to- to Organize League LeagLe To Aid Husband Make World Safe for Matrimony Is Plan of Actor By Carolyn Vance Bell Bell N. N E. E A. A Washington Bureau 34 1128 Munsey W WASHINGTON D D. C. C Jan 30 Nat Nat Goodwin has started a League of Husbands Husbands Hus Ilus- bands to Make the World Safe Sate for Matrimony Nat ambled into the capital capitalS and nd promptly became infected by the league bug that has bitten nearly all all' inhabitants All these league experts whom PresIdent President President Pres Pres- ident Wilson Vilson so thoughtlessly left at home have haye not been quarantined yet and their ravings can be heard in restaurants restaurants restaurants res res- hotel lobbies barber shops I and the like The league disease is present In all its variations but no I two agree upon the kind of le league gue each wants j I I ITS ITS ITS- of ORIGIN ci IN ANTIQUITY I I do not claim to to be the originator I of the movement modestly declaimed Nat l of jus Just j ill lile the g e o of ns idea had Its Its' its Z birth in dim antiquity The ancient poets used to dream about the brotherhood brotherhood brother- brother I j hood of man roan World leaders from the time of ot Alexander have striven to put the league of or nations idea into effect but without much success As for the league of ot husbands we married men have always stuck to together together together to- to gether in a t more or less haphazard and hazardous fashion since the stone age j I For instance when a friends friend's wife calls up the office to find why her husband hasn't come home one feels I bound to tell her he was suddenly sudden called out on business But there are too many elements of danger in that sort of thing Something Something Something Some Some- thing must be done to make the league of ot husbands efficient with a standing I army to deal with any little wife who tries tries' to start anything like rike divorce i proceedings We Ve must have a secret code modeled on the ancient high sign of married men All details must be worked out carefully or instead of ot having ha a League to Enforce Peace we will have a League to Promote Wa Val on our hands I r r resume you will not decline the j honor of being first president I I asked On the contrary contray he answered I would not be eligible to that of office tic e. e because be be- cau cause e I 1 am not married married married-at at present I would not refuse a place on the advisory board for if it I do say it as I T am the the worlds world's foremost living authority in matters matri matri- monia NAT EXPLAINS BUM EYE Another fact helps explain Nat's working for the protection of ot the marI mar- mar I ned state his bum eye His left eye IS ta discolored an and l swollen swollen len len requiring a colored glass to cover it while he is on the stage There There- have been various arlous explanations explanations of this bum eye One was that wrong medicine had been put in by mistake A wifely could not have explained it It as there was then no wife v vIt It was this way said Nat I r had become so despondent after alter my latest failure in marriage that I 1 decided to I get drunk A champagne cork popped unexpectedly e lly square Into my eye |