The Washington herald., 1912-05-11
AVERAGE DIVORCE
RESULT OF NERVES
Married Couples Often See Too
Much Of Each Other.
d. poRoTHY DI1.


ing married couple a. trial divorce.
For six months the husband and wife
are prohibited from seeing each othei
or holding any communication. The man
gets rid Of his wife and her aggravating
ways and has his bachelor liberty re-
stored to him, The woman goes back tc
her mother.~ks she had often threatened
10 dc.
This arrangement gives both parties q
chance to see how they like divorce be-
fore they irretrievably commit themselves
to IL
A Daniel, second Daniel come to
Judgment, is this wise judge. Would that
every magistrate who deals with t@ne @
woes OF the unhappily mated mad ms
breadth Of view and his knowledge OF
human nature, and that all divorces had
a probationary plank In them II would
save the final breaking up Of many
home.
For the average divorce Is the result
not OF some heartbreaking and unforgiv-
able crime, as We are accustomed 70
think, but Of a married couple getting on
each others nerves through seeing too
much Of each other. and Of the natural
human impulse we fan have TO giorify
too much the thing that We haven't done.
II the truth were known. more divorces
are granted because OF boredom than for
infdeIity This Is particularly true
among people in moderate circumstances
who cannot AFFORD TO take trips and IN
dulge in sports and Namusements tnat
separate husbands and wives.
Thus a married couple are thrown
back upon each other for society, and
in time they almost inevitably set tired
Of each other, and the day arrives when
they cam perceive nothing but each
others faults.
Begin to Wonder.
The man wonders what he ever could
have seen in his wife to make him want
10 marry her. The woman wonders what
the fool killer was doing when she per-
mitted that human shrimp to lead her
to the altar.
The husband thinks that IL his wife
mentions to him another time what her
mother said about so and so that he'll
commit murder The wife grits her teeth
to keep from shrieking as her husband
starts out to relate for the millionth time
his pet story.
When a couple gets in this frame Of
mind everything jars upon them The
wife cannot make the mildest suggestion
to her husband without his resenting II
as an attempt to henpeck him, and in
consequence whereof he says things that
wound and rankle like a poisoned dart.
Nor can the husband express his opin-
ion on any topic, from politics to pie,
without his wife considering II a delib-
erateIy planned insult that calls forth
weeps and lamentations.
7 their secret thoughts both husband
and wife believe love to be dead, and
- only too many cases they apply to
ae 1wt for a burial permit for it
They are too precipitate.
Wat they need Is a breakaway and
not divorce. and a six months sepsra-
fian ould enable them to kisS and make
up. and sove all Of the expense and scan
up, and save all Of the expense and scan
essary accomplishments Of a decree alb
solute.
Absences Are Judicious.
There is nothing else in the world that
is more unfortunate than that We are
so stupid that we do not realize the vir-
tue and value Of judicious absences from
even our best beloved. There are no two |
human. beings that can be together all |
OF the time without wearying each other 4
and coming to loathe each others society. |
Even an angel from heaven would bore
us IL we had to always look at the same
crown and the same wings, and listen
to II. day after day, month after month,
year after year. playing the same old
tune. In the same old key, on the same
old harp.
It is literally true that If people were
married only, three days a 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 beau
tifully as when they are not under our
Immediate eyes.
Alasl 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 domesticated
than he thought. The Idle round of
dissipation soon pals upon him, and II Il
he had his choice he would rather go h
home to pipe and slippers. and his
oaby's arms around his neck than sit
In a poker game
she Ii PitIed.
The woman ascertains that when she
yoes back home she is tolerated rather
Than a welcome guest. People look at
her with pity and call her poor MaryF'
Her brothers and sisters are sorry for
ler, but they would rather have her
-oom than her company. She's been
II the head OF a house. and it isn't
sasy to be q pensioner in somebody
slse's, and Il doesn't take her long to
wish that she had put up with Johns
Thims instead of running foul against
Six months Of trial divorce would con-
iince nine couples out OF ten that they !
lad better try matrimony over again,
or II ii Is true that marriage Is one
4 the things that you regret whether
'ou 90 IT or don't DO It. divorce is even y
more 30.