The Washington herald., 1914-10-04
KANSAS CITY NO, RESTRICTS FREEFOR-ALL DIVORCES

who live in her block. She is shallow. OF
course. but we must take humanity as
We End II. when she goes out she be-
lieves that the neighbors are Iookins at
her. and they are she begins TO pity
herself. and down falls . long line Of her
personal defenses. A man happens along
and IN q little while she is hanging
around the divorce court watching for q
decree
Bridge and Late suppers.
"A travelling salesman came TO see me
not long ago His wife had sued for d.
vorce. He had given all Of his salary,
n5 month. TO his family. There we're
two children. one OF them q daughter
seventeen years old. The wife went 70
bridge parties. theaters. and suppers late
at night
Il called the wife TO my ONCE She is
handsome. blond woman. just can't
stand my husband she said. when I
asked her to state her side Of the case.
And that Is all I ever got out Of her. A
woman can love only one man At a time.
II that man happens not TO be married
TO her. the husband is not wanted around
II just can't stand him. she will de-
clare
Il have heard that sentence, word for
word. many times. Digging away for
AnN IANl1s lndL some man MAD
told the blond woman. with a daughter
seventeen years old. that her husband
wasn't treating her right. Her case was
typical. not alone In Kansas City but
everywhere In the United States
What We need In this country is a
return TO old-fashioned ways Of living
and to old-fashioned morals A little
high school girl in a neiEhboring town
lost her life because Of her association
with half a dozen boys belonging to we'll
to-do families-boys with automobiles. II
Is a terrible story and I will not repeat
It. except to say that society condemned
the boys
II. too. condemn the boys. but back Of
them ] see their mothers eating SO din
ners At hotels and see their fathers
standing on the tops Of banquet tables
and hear them making assinine and
maudlin speeches. Divorces are brewing
In such families even unto the second
generation.
Another thing: ! am no Socialist. far
from II. but can't understand how a
city man can support family on $40 a
month He pinches and scrapes. and by
and by his little daughter finds a work
place and. pressed by poverty some
thing happens. Such matters can't be
argued down or covered up. Meanwhile
we make II harder for all such little
girls by condoning the offenses OF men.
who We think. II we don't declare IT,
have certain rights that are denied to
women.
A Boycott Against Men.
THE double standard Of morals Is also
the cause Of a great many divorces. and
the women themselves, by their treat
ment Of unclean men. are largely re-
sponsible for Its existence. II Is up to
them TO end IL once and for all. The So
cial boycott will do the business.
You asked me to tell you about my
experiences and my convictions" Mr..
Wright continued, and ! am doing 50
Just as facts and thoughts occur to me
as I go along. Put them together II you
can and make a coherent article. Ninety
per cent OF the children brought into our
Juvenile court for a hearing belong TO
separated or divorced parents. Men
should not marry under the age Of twen-
ty-hve-thirty would be better-and
women not until they are twenty-five.
''Mothers-in-law? Well. they have
ceased to he a joke When active they
are dangerous members Of society. I
have studied them incidentally since