Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-13
Trial Divorce and It's Possibilities
BY DOROTHY DIX,

are so stupid that We do not realize the
from even our best beloved. There are
no two human beings that can be to-
eether all OF the time without weary
ing each other and coming 10 loathe each
others society.
Even an angel from heaven would bore
Us II We had to always look at the same
crown and the same wings. and listen to
IL: day by day. month after month. year
after year. playing the same old tune.
in the same old key. on the same old
harp.
II is literally true that IL people were
married only three days week instead
Of seven there would be no more divorce.
Never do the virtues OF the partners
OF our bosoms loom up SO grandly and
beautifully as when they are not under
our immediate eyes.
When you said good-by to your John.
madam. on the pier. didn't you reflect
what a little hunip-shouidered. dingy man
he was? And whenfyou had been away
for three days didn't you reverse your
opinion and begin to think that he was
fine looking. outstanding gentleman,
with an intellectual face? .
BY the time you reached London
weren't you Dragging about what hand
some man your husband was. and before
your three months In Europe were up
didn't he look like . figure Of romance
to you that you were hurrying back 10
as fast as steam would take YOU?
And you. SIR, didn't you find that alb
sence robbed your Maria Of her fat and
gray hairs and made her slim and beau
tiful to your fancy, and that II turned
all her nagging ways into loving solici-
tude for yo1 OF which you Dragged to
other men. Yeu were 40 glad 10 see her
10 you could scarcely keepa decent face.
but YOU are so hnxleus to see her back
that you wait three hours on the dock
before the ship is due.
what the trip to Europe or Florida
or the seaside does for some couples.
the limited divorce will do for others.
II Will give them the separation they
need and chance to get a perspective
ing their faults rubbed in at close rank.
Also H. will give them the opportunity
to find out that divorce isn't all beer and
sklttiea. as they imagined II In their
longing for freedom. II f. inevitable that
when We contemplate the past we put
on II a coat Of gliding to which II is
not enti.led. So when man and woman
think of the joys of divorce. they pic
ture themselves returning to life as 1t
VAS before they were married at all.
Alas. We can never go back. Every
thing changes We change ourselves.
The man who has been married and had
a wife and children Of his own finds out
that he is more domesticatei than he
thought. The idle round Of dissipation
soon pals upon him and II he had his
choice he would rather go home to pipe
and slippers and his baby's arms around
his neck than sit in a poker game.
The woman ascertdns that when she
goes back home she is tolerated rather
than a welcome guest People look at
her with pity and call her poor Maryr'
Her brothers and sisters are sorry for
hsr( but they would rather have her
room than her company. She's been at
the head Of a house, and II isn't easy
to be a pensioner in somebody else's,
and IT. doesn't take her ionE TO wish
that she had put ZIP WITH Johns whims
instead Of running foul agalsst mothers.
( SIX months Of trial divorce would con-
vinos rdne couples out of ten that they
had better try matrimony over again.
for II Il II true that marriage is one Of
the things that you regret whether you
do II or don't do II. divorce Is even
more 50.