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Show 1 4 t earlobstW-xzfr'i- , , t - 41.,, ., ., . , - , ' , teAV "',6 111.4 1, lb, . woe. - ev.1, "WA& , 'V.,. I, AI, , - , . 1 777,, ,.,, . -- to vo er t,,it $'1,-- ; 3 47;1-,- : - ' ., . - .a - T.. 0 E , , IA 4 1U143.1t: - F,0 77- - Toii Many - ,,Cliildless Marriages.. Bertrand Russell, the English Author, )itignosing This- Country's:Divorce-ProplesaysgHotne Should 6,s5 BiEéáred4böEEuhè are the tention Pao. children ANERTCA, rificed to tho- Idea of tornantle ken, --What de you mean? I asked Bet-' trand Russell in anissemailt-Simply this. Romantic lova is beautiful episode, and when, it la, - divorce usually followsto such a !arts extent that hardly any child itt America ' - - - - - ,, , r - , :. for help,- - them quarrellng, - but-- whetrthersee - -- . ' . , --- , . - . .. -- - AP- , - ' - , , ilITOUR ' -- , - 1 - ' . . , , , - 7 4 -- -7 1, , , -- ,,, - ' i 1 I , I L-- , 41' 4 41 i , . rk " ' ktj , , ' than other women. Fear is an tnIttbito ing thing and has much to do with woman's ttnhappi- nes'. tie while it exists. s, Fidelity, too, las grown out of the notion that marriage should primarily embodr romantio love. . But the bond of Marriage should be more parental than sexual. Romantio love Is a very valuable element, but not the one about whkh the household should he bttilt A home should be reared about the children. . "There should to more happluss within marriage. too," commented the author of 'Why Men Fight,' as he ran , , 740 .,,,, iig . ,;?' , 1 . .yr 1 k(11 )rrim V ' . - . N , , 411 , "4114 "."." I.- ki:,014 el: . '- . , 4 ; . .. ,f ' , Ianything , , N. !I i,) i ) .." 1 1 ,., 1 . boresome , it d - ;, : , x: stheeoling fears. Silo fears losing her looks, the approach of age, youthfuLcoma petitors and bore.' dom. A career or any continual act's- ity that bttilds up something is the curs for all this. Rut the family instinct is the strongest one for , woman,' he added with emphasis. In his 'discussion of freedom for blue-eye- - , The pleasure- wa is a career aro liable to get much more professional than.men. That Si te be avoided, for it makes them heartless and liable to sacrifice others If snything zoos wrong, they sr o completely lost- - The fear of this makes them ner vously grasping. "When we begin to fear losing some- thing, we bare already lost it," philoso"You cannot be pMzed the author. haPIrt if Yon are constantly worrying about losing your happiness. You must hare a certain cheerfulness in regard to your position. Many women alienate the affection of their husbands 'imply 'rile worst by their fear of losing case of this is when a woman marries a younger man. Fear led Empress Catherine of Russia to imprison her . with Irquently 11,,v - b -- - . life and beautiful clothes do not an ,give you ythin g for middle zee,. says B er; a is not building trand 'Night-clu- . cot.t.ot , 1 de , , IAA - ' , , Ni ," - - N itl - lowers But women are not all 4impresses with this power." He smiled genially-at t'his thought. We were interrupted by a trooping -- of footsteps Enter John, 8, and Kate. 8, followed by Mrs. Russell, youthful. women Mr. Russell fair, with light brown, iinbobbed hair never went far be- - coiled about her head. - 'This ie the children hour," explained yond the boundsworld stops for - -- - ries of the home; thi author, "and all the that b, he never it" And sines it was a precious hour, advanced s theory which would in- their very last one beforo bedtime, all volve the exclusion bands fell to at once in the activities. John took possession- of of home interests. The brown-eye- d 114 the colored blocks and started building cants back to the a chocolate factory, under the super.The proposition that vision of their father. of her mother, bad Kate, pocket-editio- n plain,,thiny blocks and was building a it grew, lighthouse. Taller and taller Then shs until her mother demurred. the tower. placed a lighted candle in John ennounced the price of chocolates but $10 a pound in Its .factory hastened to add the money, would be the end. given back at minutes had wings, those seemed It was up and for all too soon that hour Mrs. Russell leading them to the nursery. his freeBut John would not relinquish back from the darted Be so esilly.' dom book. "Father, I door and seized a inmust have one look in the book," be him. It stead.- But this dkluot. save the youthful was su old, old trick withwould not be Russell, and his parent MOIIMIIIMIll e -- WOMen . ' , - , .., O;., li g women are victims of fearthe fear of 1 k. ,ripp , 1' 111 , possess-a- t -- . - A If they, ...were less and more creative. ,X1 Eapplet losing' good looks,- the apt proach of age, the fear of coni . petitors, and boredora. are a help In that X woman with a career is less 'nal fluenced by, fear than pther : 6"- h1m4immirwi a, -- -. :, mor. -- - - Pleasure-seekin---;-- the ' . ' -- , -- -. 101 41 , - --. r There is something of a contrast, too, about the f author. His lithe, the green-eye- d monster and his ravages seemed that ths phi-42 .. . 3routhfu1 Arun and ruddy cheeks stand were as old as time. , had losopher given out in contrast with his snow.white hair! 1.1 by having another life- beside way to the scientist and the dates mentioned in "Who's the"Yes, , one at home. Marriage should be as.'' pow: fooled by it again. The Burned as a partnership, without private of the mod-liv"Most - speaks frankly and easily, showing ' 4 ' f1 irn women suffer on thil ptairinterfering. filed how accustomed be is to the lecture platrrliE footstepsindulgentaway 'Woman must have her instinctive life :from a false theory faded from smile form. Be smiles often, when countlessI satitsfied, which work or ease, the religion does not as to what makes author picked up the the and little crinkles gather about his eyes, do. These .., Idi lips, things ars counterfeit, and human happiness, softening their keen, penetrating gaze. lead to more and more nervousness, and be threads of the conversation. c k if 71 commencest,"Ths 0:',-i And with it an he is more than frank. .. 'Fearlessness is the essence of 'wit; t finally to a breakdown.. If a woman men do too, but pot , .' - He is fearless as he tears the "ell of! has insteau o. fearing, enjoy ail ...at ' ' no love in her life, she grows .too, quits so nsuch.' ''..r -- - - -- 4101, ' 2 that frantic feeling that convention and reveals elemental emo- tense and an elemertt of without d' mters ex: have, I asked him to . , cruelty I sin ruined!' You roust ticms in their stark crudity as they surge her work. The iron is this ' 91 very moral women an plain,, so la poinud , in life, so that as One In the breast of Everyman and Every. robustness . have a always cruel and persecuta sinners and out ' . ' ,:,...; Don't your lexisteuce. woman, tleans , dislike anything that will give the world thing think hap.".' ,7hey - narrow your channels or let your whole '''''r - . - otos freedom. They ars the ones mho pines', '''' collides In Cultivate 14, WHAT would bring about more hap. bate children, bemuse 'each one is a det ai b d life center about one interest attitude of 1I tho of Byronic piness in marriage?" I queried. d stab In their instinct." The author's !tient. The the opposite Bert-rantoo, Russell, author, lecturer, scientist and philosopher, at his home with a broken heart, living 'ILess jealousy, came the frank eyes blazed with feeling as be presented going about cannot bring they .,41 tower and shunning society. In the reply. 'And then, neither party should these unvarnished views of his. London an in Kensington ivory Sputh district, themselves to face is to bo honest with insist on love as thing life and beautiful tthe fact that a hu- duty. ' Parents ruin The great 'The night-clu- b e vickt the relationship to their children by say-- clothes do not give , ent5.110. he said reflectively. anything , man bemg is an animal with ,ammalktoreNzpenenee would take them away the was instinct the strongest rid of fine loos family Husbands is wives a and . duty. middle continued. kg 'Mere needs; and unless these needs an satis-- - from for he . eaaoru am' that possessive instinct toward one whkit woman feels. s . . too often make the same. mistake toward tdetayouara , - . dinary son amusement, each a separate item, is not fied he will never be Per their bushmicia, for this attitude never No success attained at the series really haPP3N" each other. Love cannot be a duty, be-- building anything 'And these up' and ProsentlY gets --. canto nu, jwings tappingtafi.,....,,,,,....,..--61-1tom- o and home life is , cause it is not subject to theorill. It intolerable and bortsome.,-Maawomen ,,,Latiwoula totrinkoverrimmia, ...,...,,,;.,:.........,..............4.7 ,iimery.""----"Women an s still full of inhibitions it costa to e woman, is the essence of , sr sift front, think lino art doing something and parenthood"pune the frank put Into them from 'childhood, and TkO what sink 'Sex they . appears to be Mr. Russell's Phi- - ',term.ember. , 'Jealousy is the root of most evil In write to me asking for help, by weitings . -- Be rtrand . elater education, overcomes them," he loaopb3r, -- Again and again ha setwned .., -- - - Mr. Russell. continued his final bombshell. "It or lectures, in their efforts to increase before exploding think 'We . don't matrx?". sex. out. about are still pointed brought up te this premise. 'They . 'needs a SeVere Moral diariPlins, for. it the funds for the suffering dogs and Most people regard It as a trivial ammo- - Ignorant of themselves and of their Women who shun life's actualities are Yet when it came it was just as star. can lead to serious thinrs. It IS re- - to decrease the ones for the improve- - ntenti It must be serious in order to needs. The knowledge they should have bound to 'pay in the end for their re-- - tli"g and as honest and thought,-provod-- -- -- -. ' - . larde- as a righteous and virtuous mut of man. An the Wanten who .drag be satisfying. We despise the body too Is Just what they have not. By appeal- - loctaneo to ammo their eaters' re. - ing as had been his opening gun. -, for a Jealous partner always has :along clogs, cats and monkeys him a much. - There are too- - many childless moral which anger, seems "Avoid superiority, - ing to tiltnan's intelligence- not to her one The career ' the dance of revenge, with the whole of thwarted maternal instinct, which should marriages. Even if a woman does not morals, she would understand men uponsibilitlea which attackshasus deadly to be the great illusion among American and, age, 'enemy, all; -.. -' back to him up. Because of the be given to s :shad., When a young wish tek rbildren,, oho la better off with better.. She would be far society women. when : esattitude ea woman the will, nap happier Can - -termeness that comes with 'jealousy, Many- - oerson does this It Is different, but when a family, for If the mind does not want she learned to be less possessive and struggle is still universal among your women, . . tape Time and his withering finger. , married people rocas up their lives. This one grows up, this affection should be one. the body does. -- - - '' L. '.. , more creative' once 2 thoughty they were noble When women look outside ;who work . .lot,' -:distrust- - makes them keep each other lavished on a rest person."--'1-------se...- A wart or the hand and shrug of his they are ...,not 'Perhaps divorces would not ;creatures and their, husbands .for .. thole, : ..m.'"'''.4-;" 'allow more ;boulders dismissed the idea of careers hapoiness- 1-- women act ".. ......"'''''- - tied devnr-mni-tIs ridiculous for one person to think be " freedom. arbkh brings about 101USSELL was silent a moment, puff- experience hefore settling down, mused In the sphere for women as seen by tell them ' . they will tnd more content- - is better than another. And no one can : i , '' - - - - - - - - - enough . II ing harder at his cigarette. Then the philosopher-scientis- t. , . "They would Bertrand Russell. ' ment in settling down. Otherwise, they make himself noble by saying: 'Look quarrels.' . . ' ......,,-.- ..., orY'et is there a way to avoid leal- - his ruddy face brightened as he "'more ''''''"-"-'"'. be contented and In Careers Are a help thetths.womatt, peed all theirs tinte siporianonting and low nbl l'om i''''' ,not,Alwitys,,feet,,1:, trig ,tzp,, i' . 14oundkri4,-ticenicuiiiiin-tliir Ili" , digression': In 'inatEer vein, It t-ey Imi missed 'Ills or nicer man., with a career is less lauenced by fear lila silently slips past them. . ,Women . , ''' Ovavvieas as ?stop Lotion, , , , ..4 , wen-kno- x' - - ,, -- --- oil- ' , - i 1 1 9,, o- his fingers through his thick, wavy white hair. Puffing away at his cigarette, ha looked reflectively into the lire. were sitting in his study in lAmdon's South Kensington district wawa lined with books, a crackling gre, tea and raisin cake made a pleasant contrast to the grayness and drizzling rain of the world outside that flower-potte- d , ,,, , s pet.- - I rlt - - IR attitude le easy divorce J-and strict fidelity to the marriage ' , ' , ) official ti Nio ,,........ . ' - -- ,i,?"...-- - -- - ak ' .40-- cap- 41g (.- - - 0 11. . r , I. Mt. - : tirDNN - ,. - - Russell. There are too many childless Marriages. Affection should be -lavished on -- a personpot A- ... i - -. t - .. 1 ....4N - ",,, s , Ati 0 - -- ti - .. - .. ",ifi..c. - ( .. :'0" ow ,, 'il ' t t, I L418,74 :)attu)s, I . iv, ' (PIS ,'........., oplittgAP,,i, , ,, , ' - ,:',. 4 '1 . ' ,, , - "- - .. , Nrit ,True He Thinks, in- Our Case - , .;:;,.,:,...;, -- .whici - ' .- - - -- both his writing and speaking. He does not hesitate to speak his mind and while there is no 'gesture of listen to me" in his conversation, non. of the pedagogue, be is bold to say things which ntay not wholly please an auditor. . His point of attack oe divorce,- - for was not unexpected, for his instants, poet recent book, 'Education and the Good Life,' takes up the problems con. fronting the children of modern parenta N And divorced parenta, in his ordnion. Present the most poisonous environment for the development of youth. . "I think in America you have moved I toward freedom in the wrong leueed the writer whose thought-pr-ways yoking analyses of social cuditions long ago placed him In the front nuke of the contemporary ludera of thought . , 1 ' 11101122MUI . do- -. -- -- ? ;',....,.: ., .. this confidence is and fear creeps in." 'Thus Bertrand Russell, Englantrs big- Bent author lecturer, scientist, philos- pher, contributed another diagnosis of America's most prevalent . malady, divorce. .4s, 1 11;:; ;'' A keen observer and a close analyst Mr. Russell not only ma life but Is &bid to penetrate beneath the surface and read the causes which motivate the acta of human beings. - Ile sees what the castud ebserver misses and he under- stands in.ny.ct ts which to one less la ttme with human emotions vs veiled. But, best of It he is able to put his thoughts and obserrations Into words which make pictures. graphic describes - I , I N t itt: of -marriage More Parenta Than Se.xua divorce buslness Makes young T ehlittren very nervous. Any disagree- meat bekreen father and mother is bad for the various development of children. It makes them feel unsafe. , Their ttabmil instinct k to look to their parent , IP Childreni-and-the-Bon- d ' , -- - -- - , 1 - - 'This ' - , - - , m, - , women who 'drag ,clogs, cats and i have a thwirtid niaV ,Monk-eyternal instinct, which should be given to, a chdd, declare! Bertrand the English 'writer, - itALI; i..; I ...., ,, .. es -- -- --- "' .. , ' ,,,,.., , - herrenr' , LI acetv, y ,wertb-whati,,,,,, , - . - k. - - - r - , -' ,, - , - '' , - . - ' es l - :, ------ , .- . . . -ti- .. I - , '' - |