Show ft Man Sara a Bargain Hunter it in f bi He He Looks for Something for Nothing g Dec Declares f That Man Buys Buys- Women's Women's Wom Wom- ens en's Hearts i With Counterfeit I II I Coin oin and and Is Is- Is N Not t Satisfied I Even Then Keeps on I Lookin Looking Look Look- j in ing for the Dream Girl With Insatiable Idealism But Mrs Edith Ellis Furniss Furness Dramatist Thinks Mrs Sheffield Sheffield field of the Divorce Court Isa Is Isa Isa a Real Moses of Marriage With Her Decalogue I r My L' L Lh h ti v vH H nY J 9 ED ITH e uIS By NIXOLA GREELEY SMITH NEW YORK April 8 Mrs Mrs Rena Gary Cary ary Sheffield is the Moses o of the children children children chil chil- dren of wedlock She has written written shall shall I say it the it-the the decalogue e of f the doomed With her knowledge of life and human nature her sense of proportion proportion proportion pro pro- portion and of humor she was predestined to disillusion and to bitterness But out of her sorrow Borrow has come wisdom for her fellowmen So Edith Elliss Furness expressed to me her opinion of the twenty commandments commandments commandments com com- for the married marrIed for for the husband and wife ten wife ten apiece which apiece which have proved the sensation of the divorce suit which Justus P P. Sheffield New York lawyer has bas brought against his wife Rena Cary Gary Sheffield author cynic and as Mrs Furness says the Moses of the married Before I 1 proceed to the further c comments of Mrs 1 Furness whose views are particularly appropriate because she has just made Tho The Devils Devil's Garden Gardena a a play which will have its first production tomorrow night nIght and and The Devils Devil's Garden deals with a mans man's disillusion with his wife and the crime which proceeded from it It-I It I want to state my own views as to Mrs Sheffield and her commandments In the first place these twenty commandments commandments commandments com com- are Just twenty too many The home as well as s the state is overburdened overburdened overburdened over over- burdened with laws laws-laws laws s la which can never be enforced because they are areat areat areat at variance with human nature They say every people has has' the government government government gov gov- which it deserves So has every home And both the home and the state suffer from sumptuary laws which merely clutter up the statute books books- without changing the facts We can expect no alteration in the situation so long as we insist on fit fitting fitting fitting fit fit- ting life to our theories instead of fitting fit fitting fitting fit fit- ting our theories to life Matrimony does not need a Moses 1 It has far too many of emIn emIn em I In the good old days of undisputed male dominion every little fireside had hada I a Moses all its own own man man the master and lawgiver the flaming prophet of his own supremacy TWO IN EVERY HOME THESE DAYS And that was very comfortable very simple very wrong Today each home has two 1 each with a separate set of of tablets with which to whack the other over the head Some Bible scholars say that the original Moses stole most of his ideas from his sister Deborah the real brains of the expedition out of Egypt And the fact that nearly every famous man in art or literature or statesmanship statesmanship statesmanship statesman statesman- ship has been in one case or another a Peeping Tom at the keyhole of a aw w womans woman's mans man's heart lends plausibility to the supposition The wedding ring is the symbol of eternity I Another symbol of eternity which forms a ring is one snake swallowing another When one snake is very much l larger than the other the Job Is easy and painless The matter with matrimony in our day is that the smaller serpent the serpent the serpent of the old Nile Nile has has grown and andIs andis andis Is Insisting upon doing a little swallowing swallowing swallowing lowing on her own account Of course It Is more comfortable to be swallowed And maybe it was right biologically biblically ally every way you please But it never can happen again Mrs Furness Is in no way responsible ble for this outburst I simply had to tomake tomake tomake make it before proceeding to her witty witty witty wit wit- ty and perhaps more decorous views The matter with marriage Mrs Furness said Is Man is Man man who In Inlove inlove inlove love Insists upon giving counterfeit coin for gold minted in the treasury of the gods gods gods-a. a womans woman's heart Today Today Today To To- day life in shops and restaurants womans woman's style of dress our mode of lIvin living all contribute to make the IN SHOW SHOp OF OP 0 l OOt FOR BA A 1 r r 0 t YOUNG V j I RICH n I a I 0 S a V ERY I j x r. r e r 1 t a d r modern man a Turk Turk Turk-a a being with commercialized senses to whom the domestic virtues make scant appeal In the shop of life you ou know men are the b bargain rg ln s 's M Men n are are r always always looking for something for n Dont Don't you think thin s so 1 I 1 do think so I r replied To me the most amazing thing in in life the life the thing that surprises me more and ni more re with the years years years-is is the amazing ingenuousness ingenuousness ingen ingen- of the male He imposes upon woman his ideal that she must come to to him without emotional exper exper- He e tells her that he must be bethe bethe the Aaron who from th the rock of 01 her ner resistance shall shaU cause caus the springs of feeling to gush forth He puts her heart her mind in cold storage and then reproaches her because she is frozen He wants her heart to be a cradle and an old mans man's home It must be bo covered with snowdrops snowdrops but but the snowdrops must have the color of roses and the spice of pinks pinks' Only one thing could be more ex extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary ex- ex than the existence of this ideal and that Is its persistence that man even the eldest wisest most so sophisticated sophisticated sophisticated so- so man believes that some someday someday day he Is going to take home for that angel with th the cloven feet th that t devil with pinions that combination of Venus and St. St Theresa perfect companion and amI perfect cook that goddess who comes to a whistle and slinks away at a glance Mrs Sheffield Sheffield Sheffield field had her dream boy Every man has his dream girl his squaw with a knowledge of dietetics his muse who is wise enough not t to bother him when he has a ft grouch And sometimes worse luck he gets her Even EYen when he gets her he is Is not satisfied Mrs Furness man managed ged to interject Today h he is a Turk as is I Isaid Isaid Isaid said before Even when h he finds the woman who is is a whole harem in herself herself herself her her- self he keeps right on looking for another another another an an- other dream girl Women you know have not this insatiable idealism A womans woman's Ideal Is very simple What she seeks in wedlock Is ig honesty and faithfulness to the marriage tie tic Of course Mrs F Furness added we have been discussing mar marriage from the standpoint of Individual happiness It may be bo that marriage Is not meant for that end that end that it is Intended to serve humanity and not for personal Joy I r believe that It was a German philosopher philosopher philosopher phil phil- who said contemptuously that only an Englishman expects to be happy Has it ever occurred to you to think how absurd It is Is' that the su superior superior su- su s sex set k expects alwa always s 's that his mate shall be better hetter than he This expectation makes the tragedy of Wil ViI William liam Ham Dale the central figure in the dramatization of The Devils Devil's Garden His wife Marvis 1 is his superior in every way way more more refined better educated edu edu- but but because she has one flaw he is moved to murder and to a lifetime life Ue- time of of remorse remorse The whole trouble with m matrimony trim ny Is that man man expects his wife to be better than ho he Is while she acknowledges that she is not so sogo go goodAll good good 0 dAU d- d All AU the same I think it would help if we could abolish the many 1 of matrimony All in favor of this I resolution lon say aye J i |