The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-11-30
By DOROTHY DIX
The worldS, Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

MOST intelligent people have come
V to see that divorce 10 not an un-
mixed evil bit, a necessary evil
II is often the surgeons knife that cuts
away the cankerihg sore In q life in
order TO save Il, but just M surgery Il
not always an infallible cure for dis
case, 30 divorce Is not . never failing
remedy for domestic misery.
Sometimes divorce means Jumping
out OF the frying pan into the fire, as
the homely old phrase goes, and man
and women who have been miserable to-
sether in matrimony find themselves
still more wretched after they are
parted.
Ones spsrring Partner,
After all, perhaps one gets attached
TO ones sparring partner and feels lost
when deprived Of the enemy with whom
one has fought for years,
This 10 particularly the case with
women, who are the complsinants
In more than thrse-fourths Of the.
divorce actions and who find out In
the majority OF cases that their
DEGREES absolute are boomerangs
that snnihilate them and that even
q very indifferent husband may be
better than no husband al all.
Without doubt men have the same ex-
perience, for there Is no denying that
with all its faults, It's drawbacks, even
It's martyrdom, matrimony does unfit
people for the celibate life, and the
man who has grown accustomed to the
comforts and discomforts of home
finds himself like fish out OF water
when he is cast forth upon the cold
comfort of boarding houses, hotels or
clubs.
Before Hand, This
He may have rebelled against having
to punch the domestic time clock; he
may have writhed under the tyranny OF
q wife who kept tab on his going out
and coming in, and who told him what
he should eat and what he should wear,
and what he shouldn't smoke or drink;
he may have begrudged the money that
went to pay for shoes and groceries,
and milk for the baby, instead OF for
pleasure; his eyes may have wearied OF
the sight OF a fat old wife and turned
longingly towards sylph-like chickens,
but that is while he is still bound hand
and foot M the holy estate
Let the law strike his shackiss
from him and hs soon finds that
matrimony has done its deadly
work. He ig q tanned and domssu-
Gated creature Who has learned to
eat out Of q wifes hand and he Is
lost without II. -
There Ia no thrill In staying out
at night when nobody cares whether
you stay or not. What's the use Of
making money when 4 man has no
one Of his own TO spend II on7
Better even is the nagsing Of a
honest, faithful, fat old wife than
the jollying Of the painted lips Of
the sirens who work man for all
he Ia worth and from whom he soon
turns In disgust.
Thus it happens that thousands Of
married couples who thought they
could not live with each other find that
they cannot live without each other
and II is pity that there Is not some
halfway station In the divorce pro-
ceedings where the law could offer a
husband and wife a chance to take
back all the charges they have made
against each other, and kiss and make
II up.
Monotony the Trouble.
The thing that's the matter with
matrimony after all is monotony. We
try to run il as a continuous perform
ance, with never a let up or a break IL
Il with the same face across the tablt
at every meal, listening to the sam,
line of conversation three hundred anC
sixty days year, rasped by the SAINT
faults, weaknesses, peculiarities, habits
and il gets upon our nerves. It's eatinl
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