Show womans comans viewpoint as one of sex sees it it Is womans comans common falling failing now to take love too seriously and marriage too casually she would be far fair better off it if she reversed the procedure the american girl la Is the victim of her pretty and well nursed delus delusion lons she believes that when romance fades out of marriage the marriage itself should be dissolved because she fools herself into thinking that romance and love are one nothing could be more fatal for her personal security for her happiness for a contented old age or tor for society it was necessary perhaps that we go through a period of matrimonial experimentation the rather abrupt departure from the idea of marrI marriage gre as an eternally fixed institution causes us to fling ourselves to the other extreme hence we have survived an ugly time when fidelity common sense and aad even ordinary decency have sunk to a low ebb we are emerging from it more than before the home Is ii the root from which all our other institutions institution spring and permanent marriage regarded seriously by both men and women is the soil that nurtures that root mrs walter ferguson wom arts ans editor in the new york world telegram |