Show the marriage problem by INEZ HAYNES haynee IRWIN author 1 I phoebe ervest uj and cupid years etc c the state will set by law the amount of her husband Husban ct s salary due a wife I 1 T WILL all bo be very different a hun dred years year from now this matter of marriage it will not be the poets or the lovers dream of happiness on a the other hand it will not be a bugbear of course the possibility of making permanent the dream of happiness of the poet and tile the lover has bas never existed that happiness has always shown the swiftness and brevity of the lightning lighth Irig flash for present day conditions it Is a mirage a fata morgana an ignis fatrus there is no reason to suppose whatever the conditions dit ions that we uc shall ever achieve that kind of happiness permanently least of all through so complicated so perplexing plex ing so irritating a human relation as marr marriage age but abnot another or kind n 0 of happiness tess a permanent one does exist that sober serenity which comes from happily occupied heads hearts hands in a hundred years perhaps per we shall hale haite learned better belter than to expect ca ax eternal ecstasy from marriage at that future time also we ice shall have learned to make both marriage and divorce as easy as 03 possible to marry you will have only to go with your our partner in the matrimonial scheme to the local city hall and register your intention of becoming married to divorce you will have only to go to the same place and register your intention of becoming divorced in a hundred years from now social progress will hate late automatically remove re mored ds certain inevitable hunkers bunkers in the matri i game there are many of these bunkers money particularly money for money Is not only tile the root but the trunk branch leaf flower and fruit of au all evil children for children sometimes push their parents apart instead of holding them together the position of women in the matrimonial partnership incredibly inconsistent and de t radl rn ding ng the high pressure economic burden laid upon the husband a burlen so heavy that orten often it drains from alm ilm all capacity for happiness curtails his very life the vell ell known emotion good old love itself take the question of if money A hundred eurs from now it will be established shed by law exactly what proper ion on of his salary the wife as his partner in the matrimonial undertaking may demand anan d of her husband A hundred years from now it will be established shed by law exactly ahat pension he mother as the partner in population production aith the sine late may demand of that stare slate for each child she bears A hundred years from now society wilt clr have changed or at least modified its oi altitude toward the buoman partner in marriage ri age in these times the wife receives what compensation tier her husband chooses to sive give 11 her er for her serl sen ices ces as wife and mother oth er and that only during good behavior in these times the husband keeps for himself whatever share he wants of the family faintly income and that during good behavior or bad A hundred years ears from now the cifes hare in tins the family income and a penti sion on from the state being settled by law the question of her behavior will lie be ba t tween een herself and her god cod take the m matter itter of econom economic lc responsibility lity of the husband just ns as a hundred years from now tile the wares lot will be lightened so BO will the husbands tor for much of the financial burden will be taken from the mans shoulders the s state are has come economically to hut hid f rescue in in p pensioning ensio ning his wife for hearing bearing children that pension pension plus the salary which the law compels him to pay his AM wife has turned her front from a drudge to a comrade there remains only one factor to create unhappiness in the matrimonial situation the well weil known human emotion good old love itself love has railways made a great deal dal of trouble and a great many varieties of trouble no rule governs it it Is caprice personified soni fied fled it comes it goes it tip ftp pears when it Is not wanted it departs when it Is needed it alights hither and yon only one general statement can be 69 made in regard to it that like lightning it rarely strikes in the same place twice how floto are we going to cope with love no body knows it is like weather or static nothing can lie be done about it ft but do we really want to analyze nn alyee map chart chain cabin crib condina I 1 itt t only perhaps for the benefit of the lovelorn love lorn possibly in time science will discover a serum with chich the lover on discoll 1 ering that the dearly clearly beloved no longa longer cares for hint him can inoculate himself thereby producing a state of complete indifference I 1 scarcely expect that alo oon loon as a hundred years thought 0 public ledger inc Sar arvle vica I 1 |