Show DOROTHY DIX TALES I II S I I on nut nil tb lie ho s ht D Paid Woman Write MARRIAGES ARE NO MORE UNHAPPY NOW THAN THEY USED TO DIVORCE SE-DIVORCE BE DIVORCE IS MORE COMMON TODAY BECAUSE WE SIMPLY WILL NOT ENDURE ANY UN UNNECESSARY NECESSARY SUFFERING G the divorce of ot a 0 mutual friend a man said to o me ma the theother th D J other day dyt Divorces DIvorcee are arc SO o much more comPOI now than they were In our cur grandparents time time- Do men and women 10 lo e a lEsS le now than thy they did then AI Ale e marriages marriage more mor unhappy than they used u ed to be 7 Do husbands husband and wives alves Ives mak make I less leo effort to get along alone with ith each other than they j 4 used to 1 No I replied divorce us IS i the moderns protest against martyrdom People used to suffer and be b strong Now they are for not suffering and when they thy find that they have made a mIstake In choosing their j life partners divorce is the kill cure rem rem- remedy c cedy edy they apply to their matrimonial Ills Ille It lt is le curious that divorce divorce should In In- In In 4 4 crease when nowadays every match Is vir vir- virtually a love lovs match and when the average brIde probably pr bably cares ten times as much for forfi 1 her bridegroom as her grandmother did for hers for the present generation of women Is 01 the th first one In the whole history of the world that did not have to marry for a home horn IN N GRANDMOTHERS GRANDMOTHER'S time lime a girl had no nonay nay ay of or making a n decent using for or herself She had no position no no In Interest terest or occupation In life until she sir got cot them by marriage So to attain an establishment and a shopping ticket and to get out from Cram under mother mothers s thumb and to keep Leep herself from rom being belne bored to death grandmother married the first eligible man that Clime came along That s why she married at sixteen and se seventeen n She Sir couldn't afford to take R It chance by waiting Trailing for tor some tomo gentleman who ho might personally appeal to her Marriage was Wal her meal mal ticket her emancipation procla prods proclamation mation and her sentiments sentiment toward didn't matter matterN Now w the th whole world of ef opportunity Is la open to a girl She can support herself qUIte quit as well as her husband is likely to tobe tobe tobe be able to do She Sh has to sacrifice the th career she he has fitted herself r lf for her own pocketbook and her personal liberty on the marriage altar and a man has haa to look mighty good to her before r she he Is willing to do It It i I NOR r JOK are marriages o more unhappy now than they were In our ourI Ii grandparents time Human nature does not change Sorrow Sorro I came In with the th first man and nd oman and Bill alit go out with lIh the last Int one The TIr things that make marriage a II are ar no new lIew Inventions of the de dt ll 11 They have alwa a been with us ua There Tier hue base always been selfish women and extravagant women and nagging women and threw shrews s and vain and flirtatious women There Thero have always be been on mean meon and brutal men and stingy men and tyrannical men anon and philanderers philanderer There have always s been Ives Ives Mho nho henpecked their wives who wasted their husbands substance wives who sere ere poor cooks and slovenly bousek housekeepers pers and wh es who were tre alwa always a on It a astill astill still hunt bunt tor for affinities And there ha hate haic e always been husbands who bullied their wives husbands Bho bo ho worked their h wives ies es like Joke husbands who were tightwads ads who ho never gave gae their wives a penny ot of their own and husbands who were ere groash grossi unfaithful to their wives We still have hav the same aam old brands of husbands husband and wives but Instead of enduring them with patIence and let letting letting ting our ur lives live be b ruined d by the th mistake of our youth we w haul them Into Int the th divorce courts court We W do not grieve In secret ecret I We W broadcast our troubles trouble to the world About three tImes time as many women as aa men ask for divorces dl- dl This Is not because the modern man Is any worse than his grandfather was as It Is simply because grandmother j had to stand any sort of treatment from frem grandpa and grand grand- granddaughter granddaughter daughter doesn't tt t l t tt bad no place o to go got If t the she left I rt house vl She had bad no money of or her o 0 n 11 and und no v a to support herself And so sho she had to forgive 0 all aU ot s 5 and aDd endure the matrimonial yoke no matter how liow It galled her i I e 4 Madam Grundy Crundy also Iso kept grandma lashed to her e post poet Divorce was wa a disgrace No matter how hew a man abused and In- In Insulted in insulted suited a woman no matter how much It degraded her to love live with him hum she sh wu was wa looked upon askance if she left him So S grandmother lived through the th purgatory of ef a miser miser- miserable miserable abl able marriage rather than endure the th lifted eyebrows of her friends and bring shame on her children It was not because were happier In the th pact past than they are ar now that there were fewer divorces divorce It was because the price pric of dl- dl di di vorce verce was wa too high AS S FOR FOIt men and women trying honestly and Intelligently tomake tomake to toA AS A make a success or of o marriage that alas seems a simple expedIent expedient expedient for domestic bliss biles that appealed to neither generation Our tried to play the matrimonial game by inspiration in- in In Instead stead of ml rul of thumb and we w follow the th lead However there are a few signs on the horizon that Indicate that husbands and wives are beginning to realize that theres there's mOl mole e pluck than luck In a a happy marriage and that matrimony Is pretty prelly much what we w malt maJc it 11 But all this thi talk about the th ideal marriages of ef the past r r Is i all blah blab The Th only difference between our grandparents who vh didn't get divorces and us who do Is that they stood punishment better than we w do And whether there is any merit in enduring suffering you can duck out of is more than I 1 know DOROTHY DIX I I Copyright 1924 by Public Ledger Company BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES A Matter of By Martin OH H MARG MA L IVE I'VE JUST BlEW JIMMIE HAD SOME J- J Jw w you 11 01 oh i THINK to 10 ThE 1 R N T E PASSES PAt TO 10 THE co AND t SAW T SO l ri SIMPLY D E cow wM tt W CRAZY TO 10 TOCE SEE CE EVENING I AIN I F 0 r I J r b Li r HV 1 Y 42 I I l yi 4 |