The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-04
FAMOUS MEN MAKE
UNHAPPY MARRIA GES
Mr. j. M Barrie and Mr. Howard Chandler Chrisy Cisized
By Their Feminine Admirers-of All Moderns None Has
Delineated Such Beautiful Types of Womanhood.
Thence Rudey Shattered
ny DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

regulated families" l said. And a mere
wife, not being a blood relative. but
only related by marriage, oftines Is the
target for many things that the women
of a. mans own family wouldn't have
to suffer"
Yes, all that is true" said she, but
simply because a man gets tired is no
excuse for giving up the game and throw
ing down everything. No doubt the great
noveists old-fashioned, narrow ways got
on Mrs. Novelists nerves and so at last
her wornan's heart turned back to the
gay Bohemian, lavish, easy-gofng world
that she came from and to which she be-
longed."
I'm other words" L laughingly sug-
gested marry your double One can
never be surprised If the man, liking to
60 to prayer meeting and the woman be-
ing first nighber at the theatre, pull
away from each other sooner or later.
In other words, when the woman's
viewpoint is Tannhauser and the mans
Anhauser-what more can you expert?"
Exactly" said my friend 81 heard
the other day of a f1ossy old widower
whose coat was so slick before his wife
died that you could see yourself in 1t
like a mirror, primping up and running
out after a young, silly, Tightly thing
about 20 years old. The widower has
four children. and would you believe it,
they say he Is going to marry this young
girl"
There ought to be a law against such
proceedings" l replied. Thing of him
in slippered ease every evening before
the family fireside, and she actually ach-
ing and longing, her little toes positive
ly pinfng for just one more dance?"
And still the world goes on" said
my friend with young men who are
ushers in the church and officers In the
Young Mems Christian association falling
in love with chorus girls and marrying
them, and then wondering why on earth
they are not happy"
"Or a rounder," I suggested, s'marries
a simple little country lassie-an Alice
Sit-By the- Fire, and expects her to be
pleased with his riotous life The picture
of, For He a jolly Good Fellow"-you
know it-with the wretched, neglected
wife sitting at home crying her heart
sick and sore, while her husband is
out with the boys-should have been
Mr.. Christy's, IL 1t isn't"
Il remember that Dorothy Dix" said
my friend, 'or somebody else observed
that very little could be expected In tho
husband line of man who could write
such song as,
Give my REGARDS TO Broadway;
Tell the boys that I'll be there
And sure enough. very shortly after
wards, the author, Mr.. George Conan,
and his pretty with, Ethel Levey, were
at OUTS
ut looks like the Christys though are
going to show some sort of common
sense. and get together for the sake of
that precious little baby of theirs" I
said, land that at least speaks somewhat
encouragingly for them"
well, for my part, I am particularly
sorry" said my friend, "about both the
christys and the Barriss and even IL they
all make up and live happily ever after
wards, as the story books say, they can
never be the same to me. Now they
are merely commonplace everyday peo-
ple-at least the men of the combina-
ton are, and alast had them on a.
little throne-both of them"