The evening world., 1912-02-17
GIRL WITH
IS NEVER bUlL|ED
INTO MARRIAGE
Woman Really WEEDS
for Love, Says Prof. Powys
of Cambridge, England.

The most romantic woman IN
the world 10 the busiAs ss woman.
Instead Of becoming cold, hart aAd
,nsrcsnary. 10 the general eonosp.
tion asserts. she has the very high.
est ideal Of love. The era Of happy
marriages will only ooms when
every woman 10 ssif.suppoFting,
and has therefore NO temptation
to give herself 70 . husband unless
she cares for him."
hat at least liz the opinion OF John
Cowper Powys. NJ. A.. who holds q
chair of iitera ture at the University Of
Cambridge in England. Prof. Powys
was In New York yesterday to deposit
his tribute at the shrine of the great
Englishman whose centenary We are
celebrating. 1t was after his lecture
on Dickens that he was asked whether
the passing Of tho sweet home wom-
an beloved by the novelist. implied
the passing OF romantic love.
so long as the question Of money
enters In n way into the relations
between man and wife their love must
be- arsen ned and cheapened. IL not
destroyed" he replied. 1T may sound
like a paradox, but the wife who goes
ont into the world to earn her own
living Is a better homcmaker than she
who stays at home n prides herself
! on her domesticity.
You hear the woman wage-carner
married or single. criticised for knock
ing the bloom of romance What TO.
nance? What Is there romantic about
the old-fashioned marriage. where q
man buys the services OF n woman
with the promise Of board and clothes
possibly a little probationary thrown
In. and tho woman consents to DO sold
because she can't do anything betterf
The entire transaction Is essentially
commercial.
In England and America the thtory
says that a girl may choose the man
she loves among many suitors. but
the practice has been that she should
thankfully accept the hrst good pro-
WIDER who offers to free her father
from supporting her.
WiFE's ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE
DANGEROUS TO LOVE.
Il believe that = false uchone Of
economies wrecks more marriage thar
ali the other causes put together. Fol
n wife TO be economically dependen
on her husband IL unfair 70 both. an.
extremely dangerous to the very sen
zine love which nay ext. between
them.
"It 10 intensely humiliating TO tn
woman of any fineness Of feeling to b
Obliged to ask her husband for money
Even II he IL q generous psrson an<
uyes without question. sho hates TN
solicitation. On the other hand. X N
is the type OF man who always growh
What did you do with the 80 ! gave
} you last week. the situation becomes
almost ~unbearabie to the woman Of
natural Independence.
But the husband has his SIDE. Sup
pose his wife to be fooiishly extrava'
CANT. 50 long as he keeps her In hi,
home he must pay her bills. no matter
what personal drudgery II necessary or
his part. But ROW long will his love
for her last under such conditions?
"Ths Only way TO straishtsA eut
the tangled -E1thn. stio Of matSi-
monial soonomios and secure The
right answer . happy marriage.
10 to keep husband ana Wife fiaAa-
eially Independent Of each other.
Then the love relation Will not ~
complicated W The money yslataos.
"A step In that direction has already
been taken by the Increase In tho num-
IT,. ~ saifsunnorting women. That IL