The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-27
WE'D, LAUGH.
AND EVER
Be HAPPY
Marriage, a 6eTHlan AuihtrsSs
Writes, Is Wrecked BY
Nagglng

Berlin. June a. Modern Marri
age and How to Bear TIL is the sug
gestive title Of new book by Nine
Bradow, which has just been publish
ed in Berlin. 1t Is enc more eontIa-
button, 10 The great problem which
is now giving rise TO so much ais
cussion in Germany aud has been the
subject OF seyeril notable books re-
Gently published,
The authorizes recalls the fact tina,
matifmony is and has been the most
difficult problem OF life at all times.
Efforts to solve this problem have
been made for many centuries, al
ways without success.
Whoever marries does well, who
ever remains single does still better
is her conclusion Those who are
unmarried want to be married and
those who are married want to be
unmarried again All men fear mar
riage and yet most OF them marry
sooner or later ;all women long to be
married and when they are wives
they are disconnected and unhappy
he man who teaches humanity how
to hear matrimony would be the
worlds greatest benefactor
Why Marriages End in Failure.
Nine Bradow's Forthcoming book
lis rather intended to suggest pallia
tlves than a radical settlement of the
whole problem Why. She asks, are
most marriages failures in spite OF
the Illusions with when loving nus
bands and wives enter into the unit
ed state, and her reply is that the
petty troubles Of everyday life are
chiefly responsible for the destruc
ton Of love; the trifling annoyances
and ieaousies, the slight jars and
COLLISIONS, Bittle irritating habits that
cause mutual annoyances, perpetual
ly nagging talk and small manner
isms from which no Individual is
free. From these small beginnings
the serious quarrels arise aud they
eat into marriages as rust eats and
4 destroys metal.
The wrl,er contends that perpetual
nagging Is the worst evil in matri-
mony. 1t becomes chronic before
husband and wife realize 1t and then
it IL an endless source Of fresh dis
sensions Abolish nagEing and the
most effective reform OF married life
has been carried out To destroy
nagging there IS only one me5hoC
and that Is the application of tht
divine gift OF humor to the trials
and troubles of everyday life If {
sense of humor reigns supreme In {
house and VI both husband and wife
possess IL, then every dispute mus
inevitably end In general laughter.
some Other Suggestions.
The introduction of a sense OF hun
or into the complications of mabri
monia life is the abthoress thinks
a more effective improvement thai
any kind Of external reform Neve
theless She investigates and discus
ses various suggestions that have
been put forward to alter the ex
terual conditions Of marriage ia suci
Z a way as TO promote Its success
Free love she dsmisses as lmpossi
bic, impraetleabe and undesirable
Further she rejects the proposa
, sssivauced by the English author, Son
erset Maughan, that inasmuch as /
woman can never be happy with ONT
man alone, polyandry or a plurality
; of husbands for eaeu wife Is th'
best solution Of the matrimonial
problem
But teni2iiyely, Nine. Bradow sug
gests another strange arrangement
with the same end In view and hel
idea Is that there should be double
marriages between two husbands o.
the one side and two wives on tn,
other side.
Nine, Bradow goes into the rpo
posal formulated by another Englisl
author, Meredith that temporary
marriages should be concluded 10
! periods Of three or more wears III
to decade after which husband anC
wife might separate without ani
stain on their characters or max,
the bond permanent and rejects il
as offering no satisfactory way on
Of current difficulties and dangesr
Rather than temporary marriages
She would have divorce made easy
Summing up the uathoress rejects
all the remedies in favor OF the ON
upaifling cure for unhappy n.arri
ages, the application OF sense 0
humor to all malrlmon'al dissonsion
That she thinks Is the one and onl.
way how to be happy though mar