El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-16


w people to early and nl-considered
marriage. Wedding bells seem TO be
part Of the prevailing stir-the flut-
terins flags. bands. marching soldiers
and strange to relate. the boy who
is too young TO go to war feels he is
getting into the picture by taking
unto himself q child wife
So many child marriages have been
made as the result Of this enthusiasm
that among the new crop of vaude-
vile jokes. one may expect something
about the kindergarten classes al
Reno for the benefit OF infants seek
ing divorce.
MISUNDERSTANDING almost invariably
follows when the wife is Is. Is or Il
and the husband year or two older.
and both ought TO be in school study
ing instead OF trying TO cope with
grown-up problems However. if
these boy and girl marriages have
occurred, young people ought to try
honestly to make the best Of them. in
dishes and go home" attitude
Don't talk afterwards about having
been too young 10 understand. unless
YOU want to put yourself in the de-
fective class Every boy or girl OF l6
or Il knows that in repeating the
promising TO be faithful TO one person
until death rs do part" And after
the f7teful words are said. IL is too
late to plead 4 did not understand"
Divorced Boy Ridiculous.
Parents do not help matters alons
By listening TO the grievances OF the
child husband and wife. The young
seeking a divorce before they have
really given their marriage a fair
trial is a clear case of jumping out
Of the frying pan into the fire.
4 divorced boy is ridiculous OBJ
ject. No one wants to give him work
or admit him 10 the company of young
people under their charge. He may
be blameless. but his role is absurd.
And the plight Of a divorced girl
is even more fortunate. She pre-
sents herself picture Of dismal So
phisication. a child in years. yet one
who has we'll nigh run the gamut
of human experience.
Divorce is sometimes necessary. I
know. when a bov falls into the hands
Of a harpy or a girl into those Of an
adventurer but il Is a remedy akin
to dynamite and ought not to be ap-
piled until everything else has failed.
Had to GO Hungry.
One Il year old wife tells me that
half the time she has nothing 10 eat
because her 10 year old husband
wants TO look big" and treat "a bunch
Of girls to ice cream soda nearly
every evening. He cannot forego the
Importance Of playing great mOgul at
the corner drug store even if his poor
little wife has TO 90 hungry No boy
ought to be placed in such a position
OF Responsibility has all the
greediness and vanity Of childhood
and yet girl must 20 hungry on &C
count Of his lack of development.
Another tells me almost the same
story. though her husbands dissipa-
lions are not as innocent. as ice cream
soda And the one who suffers in
that family is the poor little baby
who has to do without clean. whole
some milk because the dairy won't
leave any more till the back bills are
paid.
There is a jungle law that unmis-
through life; distinguished novelist
has called IT, -'the law Of the supplan-
ter and the supplanted." Look about
you. and from casual observation you
Will see that more things than curses
come home to roost. In other words,
"as ye SOW. so shall We reap"
Some day this particular tragedy
NAV knock at your own door-some
girl will steal your man away. just
as you stole some other woman's man
from her.
What May Happen.
to see a frail haby's life fade away
because the money that should have
been sDent to save it was wasted on
joy rides and other hectic amuse-
ments. Then YOU will have expert
enced TO the fullest the jungle law
Of the supplanter and the supplanted.
Very lately there has sprung up
among women a greater sense Of fair
ness and decencv='feminine solidar-
iity." believe it is called. And heaven
knows. when we read accounts of the
drawing aside OF skirts" because
some unfortunate has brushed by US,
we realize how much we need the
other
Women are less savage to women
than they were even a generation ago.
At present no woman, unless she is a
very unworthy one. will deliberately
rejoice in another woman's misfor
tune and try. by every device in her
power, TO prevent her from rising
q gain. But many women did this in
the past. And apart from the inhu-
mainly OF such conduct. women have
begun to realize that men. while TAX
ing advantage of this feline trait. do
not admire it.
The tabbv girl with her claws bare
" sheathed. did not wear well Men
prefer a girl who has what they are
pleased to call "a mans sense Of
honor" never dreaming that thew in
their blindness have developed these
feline traits in women
II by any possible chance YOU
should happen TO belong to The ever
dwindiing feline type and YOU feel
that YOU must Hvamn" sometime now
and then. let me he- OF you to forego
'vamping" the child husband You
are not only encouraging a young
fool to improve on natures job and