Show Howe About Third Wife Unsuitable Marriages Cruelty of War e Dolt Doll wU U W N M-N By ED HOWE HIS memOIrs tens tells mo most t tot IN ot of his relations with his thIrd wife he be confesses es were on the whole more agreeable thin with the other four DetaIls as to his marriages arr shadowy as though some of them mere ere but he seems to ha babe e been mauled 11 file e times and it Is of hIs third d he speaks most In many references refer refer- references to mal marriage women and the family tamn life gener generally llly had no fault to find Ith this third woman although he Is verv se seere ere in references to some others of her se sec She seems to base e had no faults faulls he dId not regard as natural and therefore to be en because of her many Once disco ered his thIrd wife was jealous of him and was as astonished She knew at our mar he be I had lived the life of s l goat Why should she be jealous It seemed to me unreasonable unreason unreasonable able that she nas since I actually pre erred her to all others in an enor- enor enormous enormous competition Women use ne shel- shel sheltered f hel lives possIbly there is reason for jealousy among men but if I were a woman oman I do not belle believe I would be jealous of a rea reasonably on bly well ell ed beha husband This may be unfairness I frequently find I am unfair after I base e en to 11 e as an honest man manIn manin In thought ht and action t a A strange woman lately wrote me n a strange letter At the n ago e of twenty twenty- four she held a position In which she gave ve satisfaction and in whIch there was es e cry ery prospect of promotion In defiance of a from friends frIen s and of her own judgment she mauled married The husband was a palpable thud third rater and she dh him AgaIn she secured ed s I good positron position again she marrIed a sure she might have known was worthless This time her friends were disgusted and she I has joIned the unemployed lOne One ot of time the strangest things I have encountered In life is the manner in inI I which many women rush Into unsuitable able marriages er one understands I why men are so crazy about women omen but I have never been able to under understand understand I stand why women omen are equally about men It seems to me that were I young oun and a woman OlDan I could er marriage with ith considerable erable pa patience tience intelligence and cautIOn The red lantern signal Is usually hung on unsuitable husbands and wises es as it is on dangerous bridges An old German is s repOl reported ted IlS as Ing When our sons mowed down do n ring thousands of renCH and won the bit bittic I tIc we e shouted and drank beer 1 hen the Tench billed our son sous they cheered cheel ed and drank nine Ine When my mv myson son marched marchell away to fight I stood In the streets of thIs to town ton n and ed edi i A letter my son wrote rote Just before he was as killed said s he hold had 11 lined ed in France Fl ance two years and liked the French and they liked him In addition to the unnecessary killing and hate the war impo the world orId Wouldn t you JOU think n anyone one could understand the moral of this tIus in n considering the next neat war ar What Is the lesson of the moment the hour the century or of all time I belie believe e It Is the dangerous n d erous and gros- gros grosIng Ing power of oC politIcIans the press and radicals all 11 representing enting mInori- mInori mInorities minorities ties and the cowardice of the major m ity m refusing to enforce decency the he habit men base hae of being over sentimental Is vets vel old As fir back as Roman times wa was s Weary of artificial things and wrote that they so bored borell him um he II headed ended t to togo go on time the streets In the Roman Itoman Forum Porum when hen a young oung man n used tIne fin e eloquence to make lice e promises Si bl w d wearily n assay lV and reo- reo retired tired to hIs study The last year yeU ot othis o t his life Ufe he spent in writing his me- me memoIrs me memoirs and In the second volume volum page I find this timis Writing men h hire 1 e so tired time the pea peo pIe with unnatural things I hn base e con con- concluded eluded I may better please by being natural and simple in wilting my see rec recollections putdown I may thus at least pu put t down what one man maim actually thought though t and experienced durIng a long life men hu e become so untruthful in n seeking truth that m method inns Indeed pI prose 0 e to be something new and better recommend my ThIs seems to hire h l e been a mistake n opinion Although lus wrote m gl great ent simplicity and 1 Marco s Aurelius n a writIng wit h so much labor and obscurity that Grit ics no floss S1 say lie he is not Is more popular The natural tural use of o salting Would seem to be to record credits and d in books bools of o f hI history tory as well as In account books but somehow y we have decided ell wise ise 1 lime he people are gl great readers Is I the general tendency of whit we C I tend cad That it should be is I y tant Old fable writers related improbable or 01 amusing stories stones and at atthe time the bottom of each one something like 1110 this Hits sans 18 added Moral rora Better be safe than th sorry Or other otIler mU nth hin c temperance honet honesty etc etl In Ine e written bet between cen the lines or 01 somewhere het c elt else 1111 theme e should be is Ie minders mindel s or of the principles of old and demonstrated experience e |