The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-24
BY DOROTHY DIX,
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer,


band and wife who are slngularly
happy although married, and Stll IN
love with each other, although they
have celebrated their silver wedding
This fortunate couple attributes the
success they have made OF ma,rimony
largely to the fact that each has taken
an evening off every week, and each
has had a separate vacation every
year.
They 60 ont often to the theater
and concerts and parties together, but
one evening each week each is free
TO do absolutely as he or she pleaScS
without consulting the pleasure OF the
other. They have taken many de
hghtiul holidays together, but at some
time during the year each goes of ior
a little Jaunt alone.
Very Congenial.
"My husband are unusually CON
genial said the wife m explaining
their plan oi lie, "hut we do not think
alike on every point nor have We
precisely the same tastes. II Is i'm
possible that any two people should
have exactly the same opinions, likes
and dislikrS. and especially when the
two people belong 10 different sexes
"Men and women are radically dli-
icrcnt That's what makes them in
tercsting TO each other and makes
them fall in love with each other,
And the thing that makes them bore
each other and fall out OF love with |
each other is when one has 10 sacri- !
flee his, or her. lncliuations and |
preferences, and point ot view to the /
other And its all so Silly and need |
less"
Because | dotc on chocolStt creams
why should my husband acquire dyS
ncpSIa eating them when he loathcS !.
.hem, Or why should | be deprived |
1f my chocolate creams because he
doesn't happcn TO fancy them Whv |
not both Of Us CRAFTY our individual |
.aS'cS and he happy
About nine tenthS Of the friction !
n matrlmony is the result OF people |
still holding on to idlotic supcrsti,ions
whose ,om-ioolery they rebel against, /
.et haven't the courage 10 DEFY. One
oi these antique ic,,hes is the theory |
hat husbands and wives must forever
ag each other. and c,crnally sit in |
zach others pockets, and that the
bond must he a fe,ter ,ha,
,hacklcS them together like two poor
prisoners chained to each other.
Bound to Kill Interest.
This state of affairs IS supposed
to enhance mans and woman's de
votion to each other, while the whole
experience OF humanity goes to prove
that it is inevitably bound to kill
whatever interest and affection they
have for each other, unless they are
consumed by a grand passion that,
nothing can extinguish. There isn't
anybody IN the world so beautiful so
brilliant, so allurng, so fascinating
that we don't get fed up on him, or
her, il We have him or her served TO
us morning, noon and night
That's what ails matrimony. There's
nothing the matter with marriage ex-
cept that VIC administer it in alopa,hic
doses instead OF homeopathic doses.
II We could be married five days a
week instead Of seven We should
adore the holy estate instead of cast
ing wistful eyes toward Reno. and
thinking hoM wonderful it must be to
be free, and able to do a few things
that YOU would Ike to do in the way
you want TO do them, instead Of hay
ing TO do your husbands or your
wlte's way, and having to fight about
it.
And there isn't husband and wife
IN the world who, II tney told the
truth wouldn't admi, tina, they have
times and seasons when they get so
tired OF seeing the same faces across
the breakfast table, and listening TO
the same line OF conversation that thev
are afraid to trust themselves with the
carving knlic for fear they will COM
NIT murder on the partners Of their
bosom.
And ii isn't because they've made
the wrong choice OF lie partners
They would feel that way about any
other man or woman in the world that
they were tied to, so they couldn't get
away. even for a Breathing space. II,
purely =, case of too much wife or huS,
band, and no reflection on matrimony
as an institution.
Divorces RemaIry.
This is proven by the fact that
divorced people nearly always marry
again. and that divorced couples fre-
qucntly remarry. All that they needed
was n little separation. and a little
taste OF freedom to bring them back to
normal.
"Ot course in time people will ac-
quirc enough intelligence to realize
this, and TO deal with matrimony on
a sane platform, instead Of taking the
absurd position that because man
and woman are fond of each other
and like t. be together sometimes,
they wan, to be forced to he together