El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-02
--@ L. Of Divorce
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Of course, il is every mans idea that
! when he marries a woman and sets
/! her down in q comfortable home she will
/ stay put" He pictures her as spending
/ ner days joyOusly anticipating his re-
turn ar o'clock from business, and
that she wants no liveller amusement Of
an evening than just to sit up opposite
him and watch him read the paper
Unhappiiy for the peace Of the fireside
things don't happen this way In real
life woman must have occupation
and diversion. as well as a man, and
when the wife realizes that her husband
does not share nis with her. she starts
out TO find some for herself. She doesn't
sit up twiddling her thumbs and count
ing the hours until his return
Become Strangers to Each Other
Thus. it happens that the wife's in
terest and the husbands interest, and
their pleasures and their amusements
become separated. They know different
sets of peOple-One might almost say
that they move in different circles of
SOciety-and, in this way, eventually al
most become strangers TO each other
The man has his business. The wife
her study clubs and art clubs. He alb
sOT BIS himself in schemes for getting
rich She absOrbs herself in fashion
and buying clothes. He hates to go
out of an evening; so she and the other
women of her set, who are all situated
Just as she is, entertain themselves by
giving hen luncheonS and going to the
matinee, and the gulf widens and widens
between the two whose lives only touch
at two or three points
AS proof of this, just notice the pitt
full paucity of conversation carried on
by the average married couple They
have literally nothing TO talk TO each
other about, except the children and the
bills, and il they are rich enough not 10
be able 10 quarrel over tbs. bills. and
have no children, they are reduced TO 81
lence and yawning in each Othe, : faces
Is it any wonder that, under such con-
ditions, love languishes and dies Of pure
starvation? Or need we marvel that the
marriage tie becomes 50 weak and fraiI
a bond that neither husband nor wife
has much conjunction about breaking
it:
1 believe the most deadly blow that
could be dealt the divorce evil would be
for husbands and wives to realize, at the
very beginning of their married life.
that the most important thing they
could do would be to cultivate comrade-
ship. and TO make up their minis TO
share their burdens. their pleasure.
their very thoughts together. In that
way. alone can they make a community
of interest that is the realization OF
what marriage was meant to be-
Cultivate Comradesaip.
Men excuse themselves by saying they
work so hard for the sake Of their fam
lilies that they have not the time to DE-
vote to entertaining their wives Or go
{ bout with them; but it would be
letter for the domestic happiness for
any husband to give his wife less money
and more of himself Better a two
weeks vacation at a country farm house.
together, than a solitary trip alone TO
'urCpe for the wife while the husband
tolls; in his counting room
Men and women must work together.
ana Play together, If they are TO remain
together; and if there were more huS-
bands present ar the suffrage meeting.
ard more wives on the golf eoursesE
LIQUID have fewer divorces.