Show 1 Brains and Marital Infelicity I WHILE it is not flattering to those of us ns who live in p peace ace and happiness with the other and more important half of the domestic sketch one must deduce from the rapidity with which the wives of authors and other literary men are nrc asking the f courts to give them a ticket to single bless blessedness duess that marital felicity on one side sido of ot the house is incompatible incompatible tible with brains on the other Mrs Booth Tart Tar- Tar t wife of the celebrated Indiana novelist and dramatist has hns just filed suit for divorce alleging I cruelty Mrs is not asking for alimony so 50 that it is a fair inference that she merel merely wants a chance cnance to be happy to be freed from her famous husband Upton Sinclair a few weeks weak ago filed a 1 suit for divorce and named as respondent co-respondent the Kansas tramp poet with whom he ho alleged Mrs Irs Mrs Sinclair had contracted some sort of an affinity arrangement which Sinclair could not understand his only impression impression im im- iru- iru of it that was at all clear or definite in his own mind was that he did clid not like it whatever it was a Mrs irs Sinclair admitted n f sort of fondness for forthe forthe forthe the poet his lofty disdain of all mundane matters such as food clothing and a place to sleep being his chief drawing card and most powerful attraction These arc are only isolated cases to be noted among the tho man many instances of marital infelicity that occur in families of authors writers and other men who ho are popularly supposed to have brains It resolves itself into the question Would you ou rather have ha I brains or a happy happ wife f And because of the rapidity with which men of brains are losing their wives w which ich would you on rather have bave brains or a aiCe wife iCe 7 |