Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-19

There are some things it doesn't
pay us to get" said Vice-President
Marshall in a recent address. For
instance, it doesn't pay a man to get
so much monuy that he becomes
ashamed of his old-fashioned wife
and no longer wants to trot in her So
ciety."
Not long ago a man who abandoned
his wife and who tried in every way
to provoke her to get a divorce from
him so he could marry a young and
attractive girl, plainly told her that
she was not good-looking or stylish
enough for him, that now that he had
money he wanted wife who could
show off in society.
This poor woman had made all sorts
| of sacrifices in their early days OF
struggle with poverty. For years she
had worked and deprived herself of
necessities to help her husband get
/ start in the world, and to care for
and bring up his. children without
nurse or maid She made a drudge
of herself, but when he had become
| prosperous he had no use for the
worn-out wife, with her burned-out
| beauty and her wrinkles, which had
! paid the price of a large part of his
prosperity; he wanted to cast her
dSluc 1OI d youAAEg 1ICpll thiio oIbi ~
tive wife.
In the trial the wife said: Il
worked from Z in the morning until
II o'clock at night. But now that am
no longer needed in the business, he
has heaped upon me insults untold. He
has neglected and failed to properly
provide for me.
HE repeatedly told me that I was
not fashionable enough for him." the
1iKad drnSGV
women He took me to one place and
pointed out Miss X. and said he had
spent $400 wineing and dining her."
The world will never know the tor
lures, thousand times worse than
death itself, endured by wives of
prosperous husbands. who so often
prefer suffering to scandal an en-
dure living death rather than ex-
pose their husbands, who have been
fascinated by younger and more at
tractive women.
One OF the most pathetic spectacles
in American life is that of the faded,
outgrown wife standing helpless, in
the shadow of her husbands pros
perity and power, having sacrificed
her youth, beauty and ambition
nearly everything that the feminine
mind holds dear-to enable an indif-
ferent selfish, british husband to get
a start in the world.
It does not matter that the Wife
sacrificed her own opportunity for n
career that she gave up her most
cherished ambition in order ito make
ladder for her selfish husband to as
cend by. When he has once gotten
to the top. like willy. diplomatic
politician, he often kicks the ladder
down. He wants to make show in
the world; he thinks only of himself.
His poor. faded. WORKOUT wife, stand
ing In his shadow, Is not attractive
enough for him now that he has got
ten up In the world.
The selfish husband thinks that he
should have clear track for his am
bition. and that his wife should be
content, even grateful to be allowed
to tag on behind and assist him in
every possible way in what he con-
siders the grand life-work of both of
them-to make him the biggest man
possible. 1t does not even occur to
him that she could have an ambition
yelling up within her heart, a longing
to answer the call which runs In her
own blood, and a yearning to express
1t in some vocation as we'll as he.
I do not believe that the Creator has