The Washington times., 1916-01-19

IDenlS ABOUT inc SacIlIlC"e
littlc girl who permitted her
husband to return and nurse
his first wife are interesting. but, on
the other hand is there not something
to, be said for tho husband OF forty as
we'll as for the wife of forty?
Most women of forty, regardless OF
what conditions or conventions brought
it about, are nervous and restless.
| know a man. a k!nd-hearted, gem
erous. lorable. affectionate. but very
human man. He is just forty. When
] admonishcd him about a Irritation he
had the grace to feel sorry and
ashamed, but his plea was that for the
past five years he has been starved"
lie cares for his wife she is always try
ing TO renew their honeymoon days;
tries to take her for long jaunts into
the country in his car. just he and she
and the baby, and tries in every way
possible to awaken within her a desire
for him. But sne just uses MN as an
escort. OF course in all other matters
she Is a dutful wife. HIS meals are
always ready; his laundry Just so,
darninS done: anything that "a hired
housekeepcr can do she does, but the
poor chap Graves affection.
Now can you blame this man" When
him and thought that woman who no
longer Graves the society of man. who
has no love left within her wrongs her
husband by keeping him tied to her
bill payer" why stife within him
Cor the next thirty years or more that
which Is a part of him? And it is just
IS wrong for him to seek secret liasons
Elsewhere. which he has been doing.
Wouldn't the more honorable course
since she cannot any longer be a wife.
provided he provides for her and the
haby, he is free to go and find leGit-
mate affection where he can?
The Greed" Stated.
Think of how many young women
there are in the large cities who crave
for the affection of q husband, for the
warm embrace OF a child. who have
never been loved. due either to the
scarcity of men or lack OF opportunity,
mostly the former. Is it fair for the
woman WHO mas lived the best part Of
her life to prevent another woman from
living her ff" by insisting upon the
law to keep at hcr side and to starve
IN every way tho man for whom she no
longer has any desire except as an es-
Cort Sincerely. r. Il.
VOW that's the sort Of letter that
nj makes IN" mad-not vexed or
fashioned American MAID,
What If most women of forty are
nervous and restless"
So arc most men OF forty. aren't they"
Men and women are SO much alike.
Why are people always trying to make
out that they are absolutely different
Some women are nervous and restless
at twenty. and sc are some men. And
some women are gooI-naturcd i, forty.
and SO arc some men. Let's s.or 2'n-
rraliZinE and get down to plain faces.
Whom are YOU in love with, X. r., and
whose husband are you trying to take
away from her?
You ask me for nay opinion. Perhaps
YOU can get it from that question.
Is there nothing in marriage to you
hut emotionalism?
Are we. after all. no better than mere
mate seeking animals, we men and
women with minds and hearts ana
something that we like to think is a
soul?
Free to go? Yes. if he wants to go
YES, il he has neither manhood nor the
decency nor the self-control to want to
stay with the woman who has given
him the besL of her life. even if she isn't
~ pretty as she was when he married
her; yes. cvHn if she's nervous and rest
less once in while.
Would 1t Work?
Free to go? What man OF any honor
or any loyalty would want to go and
leave his own child to be brought up
somehow. anyhow-ht or miss-for no
whose life is wrecked can be the right