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Show H I Slump in Friendship Not Love Prevails Komance To-Day Wm By hon. mrs. fitzroy erskine. Eft " i a IMENIJS1FI1 mid not love, wo uro told, linn become the mnMcr I I motive. The millions mny keep neiirer nature, lnt Hiimrt fio-LH fio-LH I 1 'c,3' mis nrr've n an nrtificinl existence. Mnrriitgo in our set is a business contract, and the love dream of long ago has given place io a cool liking, or, at best, to a cheery good- fellowship. For there is n slump in sentiment, and domestic alTcction, ns once known, has become a mere myth o the dead and gone Victorian era. Smart women 6eom the old role of fond fiancees and devoted wives and mothers. In those days they arc above all else bonnes eamantdes, and can play this practical part to perfection. Husbands and wives, brothers and sis-tors, sis-tors, parents and children each of these go in not for love, but for friend-ship friend-ship only, nnd, in nine- cases out of ten, aro content to be pals, intimates, and jolly companions. Women aro now on the up-grade. They are no longer dolls or slaves, but keep their cash and their freedom, aro the equals of men, and their husband's friends and companions. And married friendship is helped out by the way in vliidh modern women share in the pursuits of their men belongings. They back horses, do "deals" in the city, travel fast and far, shoot big game, ride, row, golf, motor, and now go up in balloons. |