El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-10-07
Girl Who Gives Up Friends
For Lover Courts Bore d ON
Day Of Close Corporation Engagements and Mar
riages Is Past for Those Who Would Enjoy
the Best of Existence.

The same lady confined herself @
the society news and the death no
/ tees during the war because lna
same John hadn't time TO explain
LID 10 her He might have been seer
not explaining the war cerIainls
f but enjoying the sprlghtly conFersa'
3 ton OF another lady, OF quite a qll-
ferenr type, with whom ne oIlel
Z lunched az q downtown restaurant
HIS poor little silly wife was sool
I enough 10 keep house. mind tpe chill
dren. darn the socks and look Up 90
John as god, but when he wanted
I a little relaxation and mental re-
{ freshment he got DC, not from the
woman who had turned into a lay
figure Of putty. but with woman
who had kept her contact with life.
Tennyson in "Locksley Hair. de-
/ scribes the state OF such wife II ms
own mastery fashion, methine
better than his dog, little deareT
than his horse And when a Wom-
an puts herself. or lets herself be put
IN the horse and dog category, lsu-
ally she has herself 10 blame can
you imagine any woman being so be-
uighted. mentally and spiritually.
that she has TO wait while her nus
band explains" 20 her such a thing
as the war, or the high cost Of liY Ing
The Modern Cave Man
or can you imagine woman not
reading the newspapers and neglect
ing to find out what IS happening an
about here
The difficulty usually begins with
what I am going 10 call -the close
corporation" engagement James be-
ing an utterly Jealous and unreasOn-
able young man. not much evolved
beyond the cave man type. wishes 70
immune his Elvlra beyond the reach
Of other possible rivals And some
times. as ] said in the beginning the
prescription works only too vel, and
Elvira becomes such a dose OF daily
dulluess that James side steps his
medicine and declines to swallow It.
He fancies something Iresner.
something on which his own brand
has not burned so deeply. James. fl
fact has had enough OF himself.
though he NAV not know 10 and when
he goes c0urtiug he does not want
held I'D 10 him a mirror in which he
sees his feminine counterpart
But sometimes as we al know.
James does marry his echo. the wom-
an who gives up everything but her
own Limitations for the honor OF be-
coming his wife There we get the
lady who becomes something Bet
ter than his dog. a little dearer than
his horse"
The most DitifuI feature OF such
an unbalanced family arrangement
Is the attitude or the children. when
10 mother the children have. o..
plenty OF time They put mother
straight about everything and they
correct her before STRANGERS They
never consult her, nor seek her adj
vice. but they have plenty and 10
sp~ra TO give her.
When crises occur IN the family,
mother IS a negligible quantity. eE-
erclsinE about as much influence as
the rraT0n portraits that were reln-
gated 70 the attic when the family
taste began 20 improve.
Consider these things, my dear FL
Vira- and when James insists you
shall give up your friends, YOUR reia-
tives your religion. your opinions.
your favOrlte color and about every
thing else Won appear 20 love. re-
member that variety is the suice OF
life. and q household In witch there
ist n James-th Greater and James
the-Lesser is the abode % boredom
and monotony.