Show c- c ti iF CHAPTER I Discover That Unwritten Laws of Matrimony Are Area a a. High Fence If It I knew how to revise the tho unwritten unwritten unwritten ten laws of matrimony Id I'd begin to today to- to I day said Martha Palmer as we lunched together You ou Martha MartIta Martha l Palmer I exclaimed very much startled because J I 1 intended to break ono one law myself by going with Dr to a concert What do db bd you want to do that you cant can't do I cant can't ride to the office in my my- neighbors neighbor's auto any more now that my husband is away When Evan was was was' wasat at home Mr Ir Ross you Ross you remember the thenice thenice thenice nice neighbors just cast of us us Mr j I Ross used to pick us up often at the I corner as we waited for a streetcar I But now that Evan Is gone does Mr Ross ever see me at the corner comer Never my dear not even when it rains rain If It Irhe Ithe I he were half kind as-kind to me alone as he used to be to Evan Eyan and me together together- the neighborhood would go go mad gossiping gossiping gossiping gos gos- I I have a a. parallel I said Will a married man of or the Lorimer office force torce fall tall into step with one of ot the girls going to a car as he would with witha l a man Vh Why my dear deal Ive I've seen them walk two blocks bloc down downA J. J side street to avoid word it Mr Ross Hoss does loes not consider me mo a vampire Martha continued and I respect him as an old friend even more morl than as as' as asan an expert chauffeur Neither of us is at all afraid of the other but we both cri cringe from what the people on our street might say Yet we are arc educated to consider sex a personal concern I asserted and it From tho the time we are born sex Is subject to community control Your neighbors arrange for all of the occasions upon which you and Mr Ross I may meet However self respecting I you ou two may be however loyal to your respective spouses your neighbors will not permit you to ride over town alene I with Mr Ross Hoss And yet et Jane neither you nor I I would ever object to the the unwritten un Hitten laws of matrimony except that they make us us' us too self self- self conscious conscious for any i i human good- good i Oh h I ex exclaimed d for tor there was waa wasI i I a revelation in Marthas Martha's remark al although al ai I though tho it wasn't one I could tell her her about She had explained many elIlI em I j in as a bride Now w wI I II I understood why my wedding had queered some good friendships In my fathers father's coll college ga there had been beena a teacher of esthetics an artist with whom I had had won wonderful erful walks and and- talks He was v v. v v-d v d about color and today because of what of-what what he taught me I can find beauty 1 In do a sordid smoky street But m my ended with m ray tny marriage I can can never walk in in the tIle woods with him again ag Why I couldn't I-couldn't even vl it an art gallery with him I II And there was a a. a senior senior- student in I college a born reformer who op opened my eyes to the great modern social I problems Just because he had talked to me I was abl able to understand my radical Bob when he came came along I Even though Bob were willing willing- which he wouldn't my be be my friends and ard neighbors would never let me read a book on economics with that student now The Tle unwritten code of ot sex does get get- awfully in the way of decent hum humans ns Martha went on Its like a a high fence maybe you do not want to climb over it at all but its it's there In sight all of or the timekeeping time keeping really nice men and women everlastingly reminded of Its ugly existence And It makes themen the themen I men restless restless and and the women embar embarrassed I r or silly I Oh la la thought I. I How I hope I can forget torset it when It-when when I go to the concert concert concert con con- cert with Dr tonight I To be continued Copyright 1918 by the Newspaper EnI Enterprise Enterprise En En- I Association t v |