The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-06-05

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!. Dy DOROTHY DIX.
EAA WORKS Highest Paid Woman
t Writer. .
rS he fatal human triangle does not
really consist of the husband, the
wife and the other man or woman,
q novelists and dramatiss had led us
q believe. II consists of the husband,
H. wife and the in-aws,
When all is said not many men and
women are gay deceivers--iaithless TO
heir marriage vows Even the affinity
somewhatCIsre bird whose habitat
d in the palaces OF the rich, and who
Seldom flutters around the ordinary
hcme. But in-laws, like the poor, are
Alwsys with us, and few there be who
Escape them They are an ever present
danger and menace to every new house
hold that is started.
~ It's Secret Danger,
This danger is all the greater be
cause IL n secret, inSidious, even
On unintentional one. that is neither
nerceived nor planned until the dam
are has been done, and it is too late
70 avoid the catastrophe. Indeed the
harm Is inspired by affection and that
b what makes it so deadly, for we can
cope with malice and fight our enemies
but we are helpless and weaponlrss be
fore those we love and who love MS,
although they slay us through mlSdi-
rected kindness
That is what makes the in-law prob
lem the most insoluble and acute prob
lem OF life II our in-laws were wicked
or disreputable, nefarious designing
people, plotting against our peace and
happiness we would know how TO deal
with them. There would be jails, stone
cells and triple barred doors for them,
but they are not wicked people.
They Are Best People.
On the contrary, they are the salt
Of the earth, honorable. kindly. shining
examples in the community in which
they live. They wouldn't knowingly
do us any harm for the world, and as
for being engaged in any deep dark
plot 10 wreck our firesides and ruin
our lives. they'd be incapable of such
. thing.
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NEVERTHELESS and notwithstand-
Wing the first quarrel that every young
couple has is over his or her own
people, and the last, before one or the
other starts for Reno, is on the same
subject In-laws, according 10 divorce
LAWYERS, are practically at the bottom
Of nearly everv divorce. They drive
men to drink and drown women in
tears, and are such potent source Of
discord that about the only safe per.
Son to marry Is a foundling who was
reared in an orphan asylum.
They Dare In-Laws.
on course the blame for this rest.
mainly with the young. Every youth
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fhey dare the relative, of m. marty oI
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p IN arms ior rear they are trying 10
boss him.
What there Is In the marriage service
mat should cause his wifeis family to
become anathema TO a man and make
tne woman hate her husbands people,
sight unseen. nobody knows II merely
lust generally happens that way in this
Illogical old world OF ours,
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