South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-04

never to marry a millionaire I have a right
to give that advice. because l married
two Of EN-.
Here is the philosophy of it all. If you
marry a poor man you are the whole
thing in his life-when the days work is
over he comes home to you; he has moth
ing else to share his time his affections
and his amusements with. But if you
marry millionaire you are only one toy
among his many playthings-you are in
competition with his yacht, his automobile,
his club his horses, his hunting and his
gay friends.
"They say lightning doesn't strike twice
in the same place, but this millionaire
lightning struck me twice 1 thought that
my first unhappy experience as the wife
of rich man was only an accident, but
when my second experience proved equally
unhappy, l began to analyze things.
Cupid hates a millionaire. | know that
isn't original. But there isn't much that is
original these days. l am sure that nine
tenths of the girls who have married for
money are unhappy. Whoever said that
Cupid hated millionaire didn't go far
enough Cupid seems to hate the wife of
a millionaire more than anything elsel
Because ] am young will not be
twenty-five until next month"; suppose
some will think l don't know what l am
talking about, and l can almost hear others
say, ooh, Peggy Hopkins is talking non
sense But if the girls who say these I'M
kind things will only stop a minute and
think am sure they will realize my situa-
ton better. Do you think young woman
would give up high social position and her
own beautiful motor cars and a beautiful
home, and all the gowns and jewels money
can buy to work for a living unless she was
really and truly unhappy as the wife of
millionaire?
THAT is exactly what l have done. l
have left a handsome husband-he has
gone down into Central America now, to
avoid heartbreaking scenes have left a
very high social position in Washington,
left my motor cars, my beautiful pedigreed
dogs my wonderful riding horses, my ex-
quisite gowns and jewels, and come here,
a stranger to New York, simply because,
as the wife Of a millionaire, my heart was
breaking and l determined to be indie
pendent
Perhaps girls will go on marrying rich
men just because they are rich, but II
seems TO me they will become wiser in the
too late. that they want a husband, an
honest, faithful. loving man, for a mate,
not money-spoiled clubman. whose wealth
and early environment has given him an
entirely wrong idea of women. Don't say.
Why shouldn't l marry a rich man? He
can give me everything l want That isn't
true.
Let me tell you. little girl, whoever you
may be, II you are thinking of marrying a
millionaire you have one tagging at
your heels land how they can hang only
don't marry him. Millionaires are not cut
out for husbands in the true sense of the
word. They think they fall in love with
you, but il isn't long before they get back
TO their old habits These habits are too
strong for them TO break, even for the sake
Of a trusting girl. They go back to their
clubs and their theatre friends and their
sports and neglect their wives
ITO a millionaire a woman is. as kin
ling said only a woman. She is a small
incident IN his life. After they have mar
ried you and the honeymoon has waned.
they neglect you. They expect you to re-
main tied down, to look neither TO the
right nor the left, while their liberties