Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-15
WIFE'S FREEDOM
To HOLD HUSBAND
Mrs. Havelock Ellis, English
Novelist and Feminist, Says
Man Is Hunter.
DIVORCE is CALLED A NEED
Asserts Woman First Should Be Loyal
TO Her Own SeS-Thinks Her
Responsibility Great

u Chicago. Ill. May 15.-"Thc secret
OF perfect love is perfect freedom" an
nounced Mrs. HaveIock Ellis. the Eng
lish novelist and feminist, after she
had finished reading letter from her
husband yesterday at Hull house. The
letter said ne was counting the days
until she would return to England.
Il am SO years old. and l am sure
that have more OF my husbands love
now than l did when was %.
"A wife who wants TO keep her hus-
band continually in love with her
should remember that man is a hunter
and that she must not lie down and
die, IL she wants to keep him interest
ed in the game. The hunter is not
keen after he has caught the deer, is
z he? When a man is perfectly certain
that mis- wife adores him and would not
leave him under any circumstances,
then he treats her as he does the
trapped deer. His interest dies. The
games Is over with him.
Let Him Meet Other Women.
"A wife should not try to keep other
women away from her husband. II he
shows an interest in other women, a
friendly interest. or il may be even
more. then she should make those wo-
men her friends. instead of snubbing
them and looking On them suspicious
". She should have other women in
the home a. times and encourage their
friendship with her husband.
Then the woman who wants TO re-
turn her husbands love should be eco
nomically independent. ] always have
been economically independent. At any
moment. il / had become dissatisfied.
could have packed my bag and left
our home. assured that / could live
comfortably on my own income My
husband knew this. and because OF my
independence Of him thought all the
more OF me and made an effort to keep
me happy and contented
Beware the Doorrzt Wife.
BE sure that II the wife makes
doormat OF herself, her husband will
wipe his boots.
A diversity OF interests is an excel
lent thing for married people This
prevents things from becoming hum
drum and commonplace; it lends a de-
hcious freshness to the days.
Because / am a writer / should
have preferred to marry a man is
some other profession. some one with
different viewpoint But / had no
choice in the matter. l fell in love
with Mr.. Ellis.
People should learn that love is not
a mania or an episode: it Is an eternal
thing II is something the wife should
watch and care for. so that IL may not
grow less or disappear.
Divorce IS the great problem for
America to solve. hear? Yet divorce
is necessary in some cases. When a
n-ans or womal's married life has be-
come abnormal and painful divorce Is
the only solution.
Wants Real Monogary.
We should work toward z real mo
ncgamy. not the false, hypocriticai mo- |
samy that now exists. How many
Of the men and women you know have !
loved but one woman OF one man? |
Few, think you will say.
The old fashioned woman cajoled |
and fiattered and simulated to gain I
her ends. The new woman will be fair
and sweet, and so fascinatingly incom-
prehensible to her husband that he
will be interested in the hunt until the
end
Her first commandment will be 10y
atty to her own sex. She will not try
to steal another woman's husband, nor
will she act the cat in any way.
"WomaY mas the great responsibility
in this world. She is responsible not
only for the children she brings into
the wori5. but for her husband as well,
for he. too, to her. is a child. Indeed,
| am no. sure that it was masculine
force which formed the world. IL
seems more possible that a union OF
tho masculine and feminine formed II