The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-31
ROC GAMY IS seer Y ACTICED
NOW, SAYS MRS. ELLIS, SUFFER GIST

after CIVIC valueS, and 1t will later
love values. We will learn to look at
lore neither from the standpoint, OF
the proud nor the Hbertine. AS IA
matter Of fact, this latter day ,Puri-
tanism Is the bitter foe OF healthy
sexuality.
'Hunger ne are disposed to counte-
nance, as respectable necessity
which every citizen may claim to have
satisfied through hesunited efforts Of
the community. Love, an equally inn
peratfve claim In normal manhood and
womanhood. standsII staggering or
tshamefaced In her plea for frank
| Treatment
The marriage ENHANCEMENT is
characterizes as ai'tmere game of
chance. leap into the dark with no
honorable return path"
The marriage enlightenment is
tinged with commercialism, or silly.
Ishpshod sentimentality."
And not until women are economi-
caiiy independent will love be placed
on Its proper basis, she declares.
"As conditions now exist, man
can never be sure of tis wife,s love.
He can never know until she Is eco
nonically free whether her kiss is
merely the means Of wheedling new
hat, or whether. it is an expression of
sincere, feeling. And, on the other
hand man won't beat or tyrannfze
over the woman who ds not dependent
on him for support.
,eWomen are just beginning to sreni-
lie that 1t is not necessary for them
! to be kept, gby a man, even 10 that
man Is husband. Every woman who
submits to economic dependence with
out doing her shareilof compensatory
work is prcpping UP parasitism and
prostit tuition. . "A
Training Of Children.
Our SNUG, ilypocrttical attitude tow
ard marriage Is to blame for the NOR
ally unbalanced ideas of many wives,
who, according to Mrs Ellis, tolerate
all evils as long as they are undis-
| tirbed in the contemplation OF their
individual virtues. It will be the great
work OF women to bring about a san
err, drawer, and more wholesome con,
! dftton Of mind in their sex, is this
broad minded woman's opinion. They
must train their children to look up
on the facts OF Life with clear and
unsullied vision. They must end war
by teaching their boys to serve their
country In aabetter way than by war;
Nation Saving Method.
War is as leffete q method or cav
ing o nation as cannibaaism Is of saw
ing a man." she declared In one OF
her quick, terse sentences, and In an
article which will appear in the COM
ing number OF the Craftsman Maya
zine, "Shall Women Train Their Sons
for. Warp she sets forth fully her
\ idea Of how women may end war. And
then MRS. Ellis went on to hint at q
means OF lettering marriage condi-
tions.
"a novitiate OF marriage" is one OF
the remedies she offers. By this she
means an apprenticeship to marriage,
a novitiate for fatherf1ood and moth
eraiood Instead OF an engagement,
which the offers the man and woman
no opportunity OF discovering the real
nature OF the other, she suggests q
novitiate Of marriage, which would
last one year. II, at the end OF that
time, the man and woman felt they
we're truly mated the marriage cere-
I mony could be performed. II, on the
other hand, they found themselves un-
j; suited, they could part with none OF
4 the soul-seartng experiences that d.
yorceds people have undergone.
That SO many marriages are toier.-
ably happy and that some few are
4 unregretted is surely due to the fact
that, In spite OF our haptazard WOO
] ing, some unknown spiritual law OF
/, affinity. takes the side of love An the
\ game Of life. "a noyitiateyof marriag,
4 as pen as On engage cement would sure
Il minimize the gambling element IN
Il lnodetn unions, Ailrs. Ellis believes,
s.and pave the way to- inonoeany,
which today, Eitl presentation AMI
eecrst ii,i9T y Simply I