Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-23
THE Star
BoGrder
ny DOROTHY DIX.


\ western woman got a divorce from
her husband on the grounds Of mental
cruelty and non-support" She has now
taken him in to boaru with her. and
report says that the plan is working
admirably, and that the dove Of peace
has taken up its roosting place in that
once discordant household.
vine business. There are many men
who are well nigh intolerable husbands
hut who would make delightful bosrders.
And there are also many women who
are disagreeable wives, but who would
be charming landladies. 14e mere fact
that certain people are tied together
makes them fight like the Kilkenny cats,
nut they could get along amiably enough
III they knew that they were free to pack
their trunks and leave whenever they
liked,
- Many women don't get divorces from
niggardly and abusive husbands because
they are bound to have what money
they can screw out of the said husband
to support them. Many men remain tied
to hateful wives, who fret and aggra-
vate them almost to death because, with
all theis faults, their wives are still
superlative cooks. and they can't bear
to tear themselves away from the crea-
ture comforts TO which they are accus-
toned.
This western woman has cut the Cor
dian knot of these difficulties and showed
the unhappy married how to eat their
cake and have 1t too, as 1t werei how
to hold onto husbands money and wife
pies, and still be free. II is to exchange
the uncongenial roles of husband and
wife for landlady and boarder.
The advantages of the situation are
manifest at a glance. Let husband De
come a boArder and he at once as
sumes company manners, for no boardei
would feel free to talk to his landladS
in the tone of voice in which the aver
age husband addresses his wife. MOI
would he feel at liberty TO knock the
cd and the general way in which The
establishment was run.
AS a boarder a man would not, oi
curse, assume the right TO dictate to
Mis- landlady about her private affairs
ON the contrary, realizing that al
boarding house chickens have as many
legs as a centipede, and only an infiniste
mai portion Of white meat, also ina
there As real cream and near-cream anc
likewise skinned milk that masduerade'
as cream, and that the helps of the pud
ding differ as one star differeth IRON
another star in glory. and that It rest'
with the landlady which of these a
boarder gets. he would exert all OF his
arts and wiles. and Establishments ano
caioleries to stand ace-high with the ar
bitter Of his destiny.
II is equally easy to see. too. how many
a man would find his wife much more
agreeable as landlady than ne ooe'
as a wife. Undoubtedly too many womer
take advantage of the fact that tneh
husbands can't give notice and leave .
the and Of the week to treat the poo
man aa they'd never dream OF treatini
star boardar. They think that anytnini
O. rood enough for the man who doe'
,oth,np but support the whole estaoren
nant. No tidbits are cooked up TOT
h,ro. No pains are taken to sec that M
has the little comforts that ne espe
c,allv Graves. Nobody bethers to ca'e'
TO him. .a =,
T. makes one positively shudder
think how different is the status OF Mr
snoIthxins, husband, from what would .
the status Of Mr.. smithkins. poaToeI
who had the second floor front witl
bath. And, morally, the change "osl, .,
even be greater. for no landiady witl
Eood-paying bOarder who acts nne .So'
perfect gentleman ever feels called HpOi pc,
No dIsaEree with his opinions. or call M
Mention to his little weaknesses OF =
Sssp = rigorous eye on his cominSs an
The moral OF all OF which Ia that !
u,o,,Id be a good thing II every VIZ
would try 70 treat her husband ss II n n
we're her star boarder. and every ma
would look upon his wifs In the nsr
of his landiady as well as q Wire'