Show I HY MEN MARR By Jane Dixon I Men are not nearly so complex as women They are simple creatures forthe for forthe the most part and marry for or purely purely- I home chil chul elemental love reasons reasons love a Fannie dren-Fannie dren Fannie Hurst Is there any writer of ot today who gets closer to the human heart who pounces upon the funny little kinks and cross currents that go to to- tomake make up In Individual Individual individual In- In humanity and holds them up to tho the public gaze like this breezy young woman from the banks of the Mississippi Fannie Hurst has a way of ot sitting Bitting in with the family at the table with the red cloth and the chipped china and gathering all all' there is of smiles mlles or tears at the board She can go from thence directly to the high crystal chambered drawing room and come out with an equal quantity of at lifes life's sweet and bitter bitter bitter bit bit- ter tucked away in her notebook And when it comes to transferring these real life Ufe observations and experiences experiences experIences to paper there is no contemporary contemporary contemporary writer wh can l' l Fannie nnie Hurst All this that you may know the declaration of the St. St Louis girl with the magic in her pen is worthy of tho the most serious consideration Men think very simply and clearly on the subject of marriage says Miss Hurst They either want or they do donot donot donot not want wantS WOMEN MORE COMPLEX Women V omen are vastly more m re complex in their reasons for committing mat mat- They are actuated by a variety variety variety va va- va- va of Insurance reasons reasons insurance of ot their fu future fu- fu tur ture being one of ot the most fre fre- fre- fre quent I Who is going to take care of them when the home Is id hatched Some male must take tale fathers father's place as a provider Any An number Any number of ot women wom worn en n p pondering this problem grow panicky panicky panicky pan pan- icky and grab the first reasonable offer of offer offer of- of fer of or marriage that happens happens' along for fear it will be their last THE THEman THEman THEman man is a 30 minor consideration It is getting married that counts counts insurance ance arice bought and paid for the tha That sighed the speaker is way things stood stood- during dining the dark ages of matrimony from which we are only now beginning to find deliverance Thank heavens women have discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered they have a couple of feet to stand on and two hands to work with and a brain for their own thoughts and a SPINE They have found they can buy their own insurance ance anca policy on their future It means a revolution of the entire marriage market It means better husbands better wives better children For marriage is no longer going to tobe tobe tobe be a blind surrender to the inevitable It is going to be selective A woman woman will marry the man she wants not the man she feels she must take A Aman Aman Aman man will marry a wife comrade not a propagation plant LIKE OVERGROWN BOY Fannie Hurst sat very straight and tense In the great Spanish chair where she had flung herself Her dark eyes danced with the earnestness she sha put into her subject A de deeper per crimson dyed her plump cheeks already spanked to flame by the sharp winter wind She is such a healthy good natured vital sort this woman of ot unquestionable un- un unquestionable unquestionable un un- questionable wit She reminds one of nothing so much as an overgrown boy bent on on g g- getting tUng all the fun out of ot life and succeeding admirably I know we are all pretty well fed up on this subject of woman and her economic independence but it i is like the new toy Johnnie gets for Christ Christ- mas He cant can't do anything for tor a while but play with It Men do not like the subject so BO much Why should they As it is today they feel they are being being- deprived of something something something some some- thing they cherished very dearly the dearly the home woman What an absurdity As if a woman could not be a model homemaker and an economic unit as well I should hate to think I was incapable Incapable in incapable In- In capable of holding down two jobs neither of ot which need interfere with the other Fortunately it is not going to take real men long to discover the economically economically economically eco- eco Independent woman is Is the I REJOICES IN WOMANS WOMAN'S WO ANS AN'S 4 7 p i iS S I 1 ti s 's I c I I l S Copyright by Ruth Fannie Hurst whose stores proclaim the economic liberation of i L r. r sees untold good to o man as w well by this new freedom of the th i sex j safest the worthiest and the most admirable admirable admirable ad ad- mirable selection for purposes of ot mat mat- The woman who has proven self sufficient in the matter of earning a a. living will not whine hine She has notime no notime notime time to nag She understands the value of ot the dollar too well to run her husband into a debtors debtor's court She does not hang around his neck like a lodestone in adversity She takes her place by his side and they carry carryon carryon on tog together ther WILL REDUCE DIVORCE Moreover the man who marries an economically independent woman has the satisfaction of knowing he is not I accepted as the better of two evils a a. husband or a parsimonious niche in inthe inthe inthe the home home of of some charitable relative I He Is selected because this woman I wants him for her mate When the practice becomes general divorce I courts will have to go out of business Independence of ot woman will bring I about a new and better set of reasons reasons rea rca I sons why men marry Sentiment willbe will willbe be bolstered up by respect and admiration admiration admiration admi admi- ration based upon something more than mere physical charm It was suggested to Miss Hurst adroitly I hope that she had not braved the uncertain matrimonial seas in search of th this s equality of happi happi- ness My hostess laughed She was the big breezy boy again with smart tam o pulled rakishly leftward leftward leftward left left- ward hands thrust Into the pockets of ot her Jersey sport suit tan walking walking- shoes caught in the crosspiece of the Spanish chair and the bright blight orange of an artists artist's tie voicing the wearers wearer's love of color and life I 1 confess ah entirely different attitude atti att tude toward marriage since I 1 have discovered I 1 am an actual economic in this world When I 1 found I could earn money that my thoughts my opinions were worth something had a a. real marke marketable bi value val valto to place an entirely new upon myself Every woman same J JAnd And you prefer being an unit to being a wife I asNo ask as' No Indeed energetically not be both 1 Regular men no longer I wives to wear Chinese shoe sho recognize the value I the world and are Just t It as she is herself They acl ack 1 she may have a brain equal even the superior ofil and they do not require hert her tl der it on recipes for bread pt I hope I shall marry some som somis is one of ot the w woman can afford to miss way of thinking It is the rsc which cannot go gal wrong because you win When I 1 do pledge my of ot another I shall not at atit tl t time pledge myself to wipe wip own Individuality Such p pr part of the Dark Ages It i ito ito to say because I 1 become becom r must cease to be the woma made myself My individual human being my work bY have of creative ability m my the economic plan of the unix long to pie me It is not render it even it-even even to my that I 1 submerge it in my l lI 1 I am wise enough and enough my home shall ml beT b t ti for my independence and m Miss Hurst believes th thi Continued on I 1 I I I WHY MEN MARRY Continued from preceding page from what she terms the Dark Ages of ot Matrimony is slow but buti sure We must not Judge th the rest of the country by this great progressive city she warned Out In small towns and even the small men who believe elleve It a a. sort of ot slap at their capabilities as earners to have hav their work outside the home borne are still sun in the majority Nice women I- I Isun stay at home and bake chocolate cakes and mal make e dollies doilies The war has helped Economically I it has thrust women ahead a a. cen cen- tUf tury I cen-I NEW MARRIAGE CODE Give them time these bush bUh league husbands and potential husbands By I and by they will toss tolg aside the ancient ancient ancient an- an Bode and adopt the new set of ot reasons why men mar marry A few tew generations generations generations gen gen- hence such an anomaly as asan asan asan I an absolutely dependent woman will willbe willbe be practically extinct Speed the time i In one of her more recent short stories which go to make up a pulsIng pulsing pulsing puls puls- ing and package of ot human emotions between the covers of a volume called Humoresque Miss 1 Hurst has given ghen us a a. cleverly etched reason why at least one type of ot man marries The story is Oats for the Woman and the woman in it t speaks thus of ot her approaching marriage to a a. man in St. St Louis Hes Just a plain good man I never neverIn neverin neverin in my life lite dreamed of ot having A good home in a good town where life lite aint like a red eyed devil ready to hit in deep between the shoulder I blades I know why he says he can see his wife in me Ho He knows Im I'm the kind hind was cut out for that kind of ot a alife a. a life life home home and kitchen and my own parsley In my own backyard He lie knows if It he marries me carpet slippers slippers slip slip- sUp sUp-I pers seven e nights ha a week e l is my s speed e fe fee h I I never e want to s see a roof r or a music show or a cabaret again to the day I die He knows Ill I'll fit tit into a 0 ahome ahome Ii home like a goldfish into its bowl Life Lite made a mistake with me m and its it's going to square itself I In such of her works as AJ Just Around the Corner Comer and Every Soul I I Hath Its Song Miss Hurst gives additional ad- ad ad j and convincing reasons for I committing matrimony And for tor not committing matrimony And for tor trot not i Readers must answer the question I according to the light in their own heads and hearts I |