The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-14

stBy Zoe Beckley in the New York
MaiD
How do you feel toward marriage If
YOU are a girl, unmarried, dos you re-
y won't belong to anybody. | belong
to Me! to Me, My souls nay own and
own I'm not going to give them up to
any man. Men are disgusting, greedy
pigs. They don't want to marry any
woman; they only want to hire a wife
rent a playthng-somehody to kiss
and pet for n few hours Il week. The
rest of the time she must take care of
herself and fill IN her time The best
she can. We'll, I'm going to be an old
maid and live my own life and pay my
own way
OR, If You are Il man, does thes idea
impress you: Money, money, money,
You women are all alike! You are try
| ing to wreck me. You know how hard
I'm working and how much | need
| money in my business. Yet YOU won't
| stop buying things and charging and
burning my poor earnings"
These are the words of Rupert
Hughes, playwright a novelist and n
weaver of short stories, in his new
book.
MIR. Hughes is as radical as one
| might expect the author of the
| Thirteenth Commandment" to be.
Thirteenth Should Come First
| may as well tell you first as last
that the thirteenth commandment is
Thou shalt spend less than thou
earnest" Mr. Hughes believes that it
touches the most important problem
| of the present day.
Think how many of the other com
mandmcnts would be kept" he said TO
me the other day. "if the thirteenth
| were first accepted"
! The seventh is II much oyerrated
commandment MIR. Hughes says
| through one of his characters. III does
not cause one tenth of the wreckapc
it's credited with, and doesn't usually
get broken at all till the real trouble
has started. Most family quarrels' are
about cash. II married a woman and
found she was just using me for ~
nocketbook, I'd throw her my money
and quit her cold
| Mr. Hughes believes that the earn =
ing ones living is the most important
thing in the world.
"Of course there are any number of
| unN tn al g.n 1iuipnu---hnipp q
well dressed, charming wife, for in
stance" Mr., Hughes told me. MANY a
wife earns the most honest of livings
by spending her husbands money-ju-
diciously."
when does she cease to become Il
iudicious spcnder and become a graft
err and vampire?' / made inquiry.
AT the exact point where evil is
wrought to someone's character" he
replied with elaboration. "A wifi,
keeps her physical charm over her
husband by dressing well and keeping
Il delightful home. A certain lavishness
of spending spurs him on to do better
and better.
''On the other hand. women who are
too expensive. too grasping. too self
ish and inconsiderate play havoc with
their own and other peoples souls
They kill a mans courage They sal
his spiritual vitality.
They Make Men Better.
Not only that. but In the end il
even robs them of the man. Moreover
the vampire women spoil things for tn,
worthwhile women. Men whose expert.
cnce has taught them to think womer
insincere and full of guile treat then
lightly--treat them more OF less n!
prey. A man Is not able to discrimi
rate always between good women ant
5 the other sort. Then the good womeI
, retaliate, as does Daphne Kip in thu
5 book, by her outburst, i won't beion,
l to anybody, Men are disgusting
D greedy pigs
e But II it strs them up to n life o
: work and independence, it's a goo,
: thing isn't it," t4s o.
/ fcaYes. If they don't grow bitter TIL,
: trouble is. so many girls have to lear
Ito be useful when they have beef