Show Y H kId M a At Last Vivienne Segal Got Goti N T i 7 ay 1 Tired of Supporting Her h hL L r Handsome but Rather 9 4 Inactive Husband Keep Keep- Keeping Keeping s ing Him in Expensive k I z f fD D Drinks I and d S Smokes k and d i rID s an mo es an r ii iiA Even E Y Yes R II Really Really A s- s sAt ven es ea y- y eS a aa ar Z a r Paying the Alimony He W ff f J Owed His Former Wives 7 r P l zia s 's r rRobert Robert 7 r 1 P- P Pw 53 w r ra a 4 mi Ames the A matinee idol v t W- W k from who w h o m lID v wi K Miss she p f Segal says J n learned to beware of good looking men t To- To ii 5 and of all who have difficulty in in writing 1 4 AI j t- t s t checks p v r r w sA VER since the first high salaried EVER A 1 A 1 W hus hus- hus 1 woman tool took unto herself a band and band and still went on earning her salary many salary many men and also many women have adopted a new philosophy The wife who makes big money should share the bills with her husband many of both sexes have remarked And some who allowed themselves to be quoted have even gone further If the wife makes more than the husband its it's not unreasonable for her herto herto herto to go to work and let the husband care for the house says Mrs Florence Mac Mac- MacDonald Mac Donald Donald creator of the marriage courses f at at Boston University My Iy marriage with Blanche Bates is a aI I strictly fifty-fifty fifty affair says George Creel the writer and we both would consider any other arrangement unethIcal unethical unethical cal and even immoral So for quite quito a few years now senti senti- sentiment sentiment sentiment ment has been Famous men and equally famous women have gone on record and into print The point seemed almost proved until the other u i 1 i p AS n jL D 1 oJ Vo l 4 1 t 9 l 1 t r rt i t 1 Mr Ames center in one of the stage successes in which he appeared but rarely after he married the prosperous actress r voice arose first of all in a Chi Chi- Chiago Chicago cago ago divorce court Later it expressed I U itself forcibly and emphatically I In n a N New w YorK YorI drawing room I The vOice voice was that of Vivienne t Segal one of the youngest and highest paid prima donnas inI in I American musical comedy corn corn- edy She ha just hat been lYa d divorced i v 0 r c e d from Bob I g Ames creator of ot juver juve- juve j r l L nile roles and matinee i Idol L I The fifty fifty-fifty mar mar- marriage marriage marriage 1 where here the wife a h takes equal responsibility responsibility with the husband 1 tor for the bills is the i most contemptible marriage mar- mar 1 imagine r age I 1 can said Vivienne Segal I 1 know tf r I 1 have been know for tor 1 the paying partner to toi to i 4 Only such a marriage mine i mine rapidly l became a 90 10 90 10 per cent marriage marI marriage mar- mar marriage I I 1 taking the 90 per cent of the financial finan finan- F took cial burden Finally 1 I y took the entire percent percents per percent cents cent sj No man who loves is his wife is willing for her to pay his ns bills bills- c When aman a man man looks a upon a woman as his W n cashier he has ceased to look upon her as his true love Im I'm tired of ofa ofF ofa ofa F a handsome husband who must have his im- im imported im imported ported cigarettes cigarettes cigarettes and his imported drinks and his 20 a pair link en pajamas while he be re- re refuses re refuses fuses to work to pay for tor them My next husband m h Aft homely man roan no woman can pos pos- possibly pos pos- possibly possibly sibly love but elf my myself Hell He'll have the inferiority complex as to his own charms hell liell not be a professional love maker But he be wont won't have writers writer's cramp when it comes to paying the bills Supporting me and the household will be bo the best thing he does docs An Am hell he'll have a job and stick to it day in and day out So Miss Segal succinctly explains Then womanlike she goes back to the beginning begin- begin beginning ning ping and tells all that led up to her out out- outburst outburst out outburst burst in court last week when she said Your honor I 1 helped support his first wife's children I helped him pay Y Another pho photograph of the thet latest former Mrs Amest Ames t his second wife's alimony I spent more than 15 on him Now I want a dIvorce I ma married Bob Dob Ames because I loved shim him madly says Miss Segal I knew he had been married twice before This attracted me fer I thought that surely the ripened wisdom he had gained from two marriages as to what a woman wants would make him a most considerate hus hus- husband hus- hus husband husband band in his third marriage We went to keeping house together as most young oung married folks do And at the end of the first fint month the bills ls came in as they lave have a way of coming in with everybody It happened that when I married my husband he was not working though he expected to take a new role almost at once But when the bills arrived since he was not yet employed I carefully and tactfully hid them from him and got out my pen and check book and paid them all myself I thought thought- thought I 1 was sure my my darling boy would pay me every dollar I had spent as soon as he started to play again So very unwisely I be- be began began be began gan my married life me I was very glad that I was making a great deal of money and able to pay for us both saving thereby much embarrassment But I had hardly paid that first sheaf of bills before I began to admire my dear loves love's excellent good taste His they cigarettes they were monogrammed gold tipped and imported I had known millionaires who used American mineral water with their whiskey but my dear boy always insisted on my buying an expensive Imported water to mix with his little drinks By and by he told me he was embarrassed about the support for tor his first wife's children and his see sec second's sec second's ond's alimony I signed more checks gladly for was he not my husband and would he not pay me as soon as he got work And then the tailor brought in a dozen nice new suits my exquisite husband had ordered and I paid for them After all the dear should always go looking nice Besides when he got to work again again- again Well I had begun the perfect start to the ruin of my marriage The wife who begins by paying the bills will surely end up as I did I gradually saw that my expensive husband was the most costly luxury I had ever allowed myself His luxurious tastes his silver toilet sets and his whiskey by the case were a heavy burden even with my high salary And finally when I 1 suggested we n ight economize on the drinks he ho faced me indignantly Look who I ami am he said It was then I remembered very clearly that I had married a professional charmer But for a while yet I went on on with witha a glowing heart because I loved lo my husband Bills and Bills bills bills and those I had to pay for his first two marriages It 1111 m ay by totaled a neat lit littie t tie sum before I Iwas Iwas was through I suppose many will think my hand hand- handsome hand so so some m e husband overwhelmed me with gratitude but I cannot say he ever confessed he was grateful except perhaps AI that W w 1 r t r I v y- y yf f I iv Y YS T S J c Mv r J f r F 5 55 S 4 A i t 3 S fix tT v t V L VL bt C 1 r ii f ox 1 f 1 J 1 J I v f 1 t t- t tt t h i YA 1 grey fJ t a SS yN Y vl j liMY v JF lN ik ii i tg t t A i l t Jo i Miss Miu Vivienne Segal the musical comedy prima donna who found marriage to Mr Arne Ames a more expensive luxury than even she could afford was rather a edged double-edged gratitude It 11 happened this way We were in Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago cago at a party Suddenly when Bob got to feeling rather uplifted he sank on his knee in front of my mother I am the relative of the two best women in the world he said My wife and my wife mother Yes of course your wife's mother somebody replied but why your wife Because my husband retorted be be cause she is the highest salaried woman I ever married l I I felt my husband really loved me metor for one reason for anyway anyway for my earning capacIty I still kept paying the bills and Bob still kept unemployed and I still kept hoping ho he would finally get work At length my mother heard of a good engagement She told him of It It itHe lIe drew himself up indignantly II Why should I go to work to pay oR olf oRall all those bills he asked Ho lie referred to the household and haberdashery bills which by this time I 1 had said I ex- ex expected expected expected him to make good when he was In funds But I would be an ungrateful woman did I intimate that my hus ex band never gave me a gift It it is not so He did Two gifts On One was my wedding ring The other was a II set of war books Of course I was glad to be presented with a wedding ring When one Is b married one has to have a ring But as to the war books I was not quite as thrilled as I might have bave been When he gave them to me I said I suppose I am awfully lowbrow but somehow you OU knor dear I wish it had been a little jewel instead I am tired of the war My lily husband was indignant The very idea he said a jewel jewel-it jewel it Is but glitter But these war books improve your our mind As liAs for other little gifts such as flowers and candy my dear love was logical Candy fattens the American woman till sho rho loses her figure at thirty he said The man is no friend who gives loMoe rr Inc In r a woman candy Flowers only wither and besides they might give you OU hay fever The months went on and still sun I paid the bills And then quite suddenly my husband accepted a part in a play which was to be tried out in a western city Like a II good wife I continued to play my role of Santa Claus Claus- ClausIn In a glow of feel feel- feeling feeling feeling ing I decided that if my boy was really going to work he should travel out there like a gentleman So I took his shopping and I 1 bought him the best imported English leather gladstone bag we could find To keep h Ir-ii Ir n from being too lone lone- lonesome lonesome lone lonesome some for me on the trip I bought him hima hima a pho in a case the kind that folds away for traveling And Iwas I was so anxious that m my husband be always at athis athis athis his best that I hired him a valet and paid the mans man's wages a month in is advance II There said I to Bob BoJ you will go goto goto goto to work like a gentleman I kissed him good-by good sorry for him himin himin himin in his first absence from me Later I 1 heard he be had got a drawing room on the train where he entertained n l blonde leading lady with music from the machine ma- ma machine ma machine chine my money had just paid for In time he came back home As I continued to pay the bil bilLi s my husband became increasingly interested in the blonde leading lady I 1 have already mentioned T r pass on a moral to all wives wives-a a womans woman's romantic powers fade with her husband as her financial atten atten- attentions atten- atten attentions attentions increase increase I Iwas was supplying the funds while the other supposed lady lady to be my friend and house was guest guest supplying the feminine attraction And so at length we wo separated At tho the end of a few weeks my husband made over over- overtures over overtures tures to me My own mind was all made up II Pay me tee back what I spent on the pay house pay me what I spent on your tailors and haberdashers and cigarettes and drinks I told him and Ill I'll believe you mean it it Ill I'll make up then He told me he considered me one of the most mercenary women he ever knew He lIe said he thought any financial reckoning between a husband and wife was crass and vulgar lIe He didn't think it mattered which of the partners had the money so long as they had it be- be between be between tween them I did not make up A At t another time while still we were drifting and unde unde- undecided undecided I wired ired him for money in a rush ne He wired me back that my crassness dis dis- disgusted disgusted disgusted gusted him He hated to hear money mentioned between us So finally I be- be became became be became came tired indeed very Tired of pay pay- ing paying his bills Tired of helping him with his first two families Tired of being the check book And accordingly I 1 asked for my divorce In due time I got it it But Dut I got as the result of pay pay- ing paying my husbands husband's bills for tor too long something more than a divorce divorce-a divorce a new philosophy of marriage dependable My Iy next husband must be depend depend- able homely to look at a steady worker humble as to his own attractions When it comes to signing the checks he must have a good strong capable right hand no no writers writer's cramp If I ever do marry again I shall avoid like the plague a handsome man I shall run away sprint sprint- sprinting ing ng from a dressy man All professional professional love lo makers will be shunned by me I will never put my faith in a plausible talker The plausible talkers are not there when it comes to actions which speak louder than the best sound sounding ing argument I will never ne consider a ladies favorite and if a man ai as much as asmakes asmakes asmakes makes eyes at me who earns his living Jiving by his pretty face hell he'll be in danger ot of having those eyes he has made quickly blackened My 1 ly advice to all wives who are capable of earning money is this never this admit you have a dollar or can earn earR one When he first admits his willingness for you ou to pay a bill look around for an- an another another an another other husband For if he be gets to re- re regarding regarding re regarding garding you ou as ns his check signer you have just two courses One is 18 to keep signing checks for him forever cheer forever fully The other othel Is to divorce him 1 t 1 I |