Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-28
By DOROTHY DIX.

AVE you ever considered the
n modern girl and how she diff
fers from the maidens of the
past She's new species Of the
feminine sex, and no more like her
grandmother, or even her mother,
than IL she had been waited down
from the planet Mars instead of hav-
ing just strolled out of the nursery.
We haven't taken much account of
her, but you've got to reckon with
her in the future, and it's time we
sat up and took notice. Consider
these little stories as illustrations OF
the young person and her point of
view. The first is on divorce.
The other day I overheard two
young girls talking.
Said one: When a girl marries,
she should be very, very careful IN
choosing her husband, and after she
is married she should do the best she
can to make a good wife and a happy
home, but If she finds out that she
has made mistake. and is misera Bile,
thank Heaven, she doesn't have TO
stand it. She can always get a di-
vorce."
Said the other girl: "Oh, of course,
that's the only thing to do under
such circumstances. 1t won't be my
fault if my marriage turns out badly,
because I'm going to do everything
can. and bring every particle of in
telligence I've got to making ii a
success, but none of that suffer-and-
be-strong business in mine! If my
husband isn't what he should be, or
treats me badly, or l find I've made
an error Of judgment. I'm going 10
correct it just as l would any other
mistake.
I'm not going to stick to It as peo-
pie used to do in the Dark Ages
Aren't you thankful that you live in
these enlightened days, instead Of in
our grandparents and our parents
time, when people thought that no
matter how miserable you were in
your marriage. or how much you
hated the person you were married to,
you had to endure it?'
An Unusual Remark.
The first girl smiled indmgently
They were bound in the swaddling
clothes Of superstition, all right" she
said
gasped with surprise. These girls
| belong to old, conservative, rather
narrow minded families, and they
| themselves are sweet modest, intelli-
gent. well educated young women
who haven't the faintest idea of being
revolutionary, or anything Of that
| sort. What they said simply voiced
| the viewpoint Of the new generation
They didn't argue about the ethics
Of divorce at all. They simply ac-
copied divorce as a fact a modern
convenience, something that tended
to make life pleasanter, just as they
did in elevators in apartment build
| ings, or electric lights, or running ho'
and cold water in bath rooms.
! II you had made a mistake in mar
rage and your life was being ruined
| by it, you corrected it and took 9
| fresh start, just as you would do Il
you found out that you had engaged
| in a business that was bankruptine
you. They could see no more reason
/ for going on with a marriage thai
meant daily misery than there woulc
| be in going on with an enterprise II
which you lost money every day.
| You can't argue the divorce question
with the modern young girl, because
she simply doesn't recognize the an.
cient view of the matter, that there
is anything noble, or pious, or vir'
tuous in living with an individual
that brings out all the worst that i!
i'm YOU, or in keeping together a fam