The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-04-21
HITS ''TOY" WIVES
Girl Asserts Married Couple
Should Quit When Love Ceases.
ALL SHOULD EXPRESS SELVES

Declares She Gives Vent to Her Fssl-
ings Every Morning In Singing,
Shouting and Dancing About to Her
Hearts Content.
Los Angeles, Cal.-"When married
people cease to love they should quit
Marriage as we know 1t today Is a
terrible mistake. When two people fall
In love nothing In the world should
keep them apart"
This statement was but one Of a Sc
ries equally unorthodox which Miss
Violette Wilson uttered at her fathers
home In outlining her unusual theories
regarding life. Miss Wilson is the
daughter of ]. Slit Wilson, former So
cialist mayor of Berkeley. Recently,
following an eight months course at
the University of California, she sud
denly withdrew in order to get away
from a system of education which she
declared crushed her individuality"
and deprived her of her intellectual
freedom and Joined her father and
mother here.
Miss Wilson Is pretty. Although she
Is only nineteen, she outlined her
ideals and aspirations with the touch
of a woman twice her years. Also she
Is epigrammatic. When she says a
thing she puts punch" in her ev-
cry phrase, and some Of the things she
says are, to say the least, interesting.
"Why did l leave the university"
she echoed in answer to a question.
Simply because / was being stifed.
I would sit and listen from 8 q. m. to
p. IN. to some pompous professor who
was telling me what he had read Of
other peoples thoughts. 1t was In
tolerable to me. / planned a literary
work. I began it In Berkeley. But In
some strange way 1 found I could not
work on 1t at the university. Ny ego
was being crushed, and l left"
About the only things connected with
modern college life of which Miss Will
son approves are the athletics and the
student activities, such as the editing
of papers. "Sororities should never be
allowed" she calculated. Athletics
develop initiative-permit one to ex-
press self At Baddale's, the school
near London which l attended, was
the only girl ON the football team. l
played center wing, and had a great
time toow
Freedom! That is Miss Wilson's ia
vorite word. what Is life without
freedom?" she exclaimed. II have left
the university. We're my ideals to
clash with those of my father and
mother 1 would not hesitate to leave
them. I most assuredly wouldn't give
In.
1--WE should all express ourselves.
Before take my bath every morning
I dance. / put on light chiffon gar
ment, throw all the windows open and
give vent to my feelings In singing,
shouting and dancing about to my
hearts content.
"The vast majority of men, especial
" business men, want a pretty little
plaything for a wife. The sweet
things hardly ever give a serious
thought to the rearing Of children.
They know nothing about eugen1cs.
They are, it must be confessed, cling
ing vines. They have no intellectual
interests in common with their hus-
bands. They are toys-pets!
"Some day there will be neither
marriage nor divorce. We will rise to
such a plane that love will be back of
our 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.