The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-04
HITS TOY" wives
Girl Asserts Married Couple
Should Quit When Love Ceaces.
ALL SHOULD EXPR SIS SELVES

Declares She Gives Vent 70 Her Feel
ings Every Morning In Sit gino,
Shouting and Dancing About 20 Her
Hearts Content.
Los Angeles. Cal when married
people cease to love they should quit
Marriage MS we know IT today Is a
terrible mistake. When Two people fall
In love nothing In the world should
keep them apart"
This statement was bot one of a se
ries equally u~northodoN which Miss
Violette Wilson uttered ut her fathers
home IA outlining her unusual THEORIES
regarding life. Miss Wilson d. The
daughter " j. Stiff Wilson. former So
cialist mayor Of Berkeley. Recently,
following IN eight months course at
the University Of California. SHE sud
denly withdrew IN order to get AWAY
from II system Of education which she
declared crushed her "~lndiviIuulitt"
ana deprived her Of her intellectual
freedom and joined her father and
mother here.
Miss Wilson Is pretty. Although She
IL only nineteen, she outlined her
Ideals and aspirations with the touch
of "A woman twice her years. Also she
Is cpigrammatic. When she SAYS "a
thing she puts q punch" Ia her cv
cry phrase. ana some Of the things she
says are, to say the least. interesting
"Why did | leave the university -
she echoed In answer 30 "a question.
simply because ! was being stlHea
| would sit and listen from s IL. nj. 10
4 y. IN. to some polnpous professor who
was telling me what he had rcad of
other peoples thoughts. II was IA
tolerable 10 me. | planned a literary
work. | began 1t In Berkeley. But ia
some strange way | found / could not
work on 1t at the university. My ego
was being crushed, and / left"
About the only things connected with
modern college life Of which Miss WI.
son approves are the athletics aud the
student activities, such as the editing
OF papers. "Sororities should never be
allowed she CALCULATED. athletics
develop initiative permit one 70 ex-
press self. At Baddale's. the school
near London which | attended. / was
the only girl OF the football team. /
played center wing. and / had n great
time too!'
Freedom! That Is Miss Wilson's In
vorite word. What IL life without
freedomF" she exclaimed. II have left
the university. We're my ideals 90
clash with those Of my father and
mother | would not hesitate 10 leave
them. | mos a%ssuredly wouldn't give
in.
I'VE should all express ourselves.
Before / take my bath every morning
| dance. ! put on a light chiffon gar
ment, throw all the windows open and
give ent to my feelings IN singing.
shouting and dancing about TO my
hearts content.
"The vast majority Of men, especial
ly business men, want n pretty little
plaything for n wife. The sweet
things hardly ever give a serious
thought to the rearing OF children.
They know nothing about eugenics
They are, 1t must be confessed. cling
Ing vines. They have no intellectual
interests I'm common with their nus
bands. They are toys-pets!
"Some day there viii be neither
marriage nor divorce. We will rise to
such a plane that love win be back OF
orr uniOns-real love Which will not
require a ceremony to make 1t legal
and binding"
Meantime the professors are won
dering why Miss Violette Wilson, one
of their most brilliant pupils. departed
from Berkeley.