The Washington times., 1920-06-06
EUerything but LOVE

TOW much love is bride entitled to?
tt The answer would be, no doubt,
that she is entitled to a full twen-
flour hours a day of her husbands devO-
Ion until the end Of the honeymoon.
But after the honeymoon. as the years
roll by. how much love Is a wife en-
titled to?
No court has ever answered that ques
tion with exactness.
There Is no book in any library which
indicates that Cupid has ever measured out
the precise amount of time. attention, de
yotion and caresses which a worthy wife
may reasonably demand of her husband
The law now says in regard to beverages
that more than one-half OF one per cent OF
alcohol is intoxicating. undesirable and un-
lawful
What percentage of love and devotion on
the part of the husband in married life is
reasonable and proper?
Mrs. Beverly d. Harris. wife of one OF
the vice-presidents of the great National
City Bank of New York, has raised these
questions.
Mrs. Harris sits in her comfortable.
warm. richly upholstered suite OF rooms In
the great Hotel Pennsylvania But she
Is not happy.
Mrs. Harris, with clothes, jewelry and
attendants to dress her. is not contented
With the great restaurants, grill rooms.
and yariegated cuisine of the Hotel Penn
sylyania at her disposal-still Mrs. Harris
is hungry for something
The push button In the wall will bring
her any or all of the army of servants OF
the hotel and down below are taxicabs
and her own automobile awaiting her
orders. But Mrs. Harris is not happy.
In the evening from her windows she
looks up the avenue to the glaring lights
OF the theatre district few blocks away
and she has the money to buy seats at any
or all OF the playhouses. And yet she is
wretched.
Is anybody cruel to Mrs. Harris? No.
Has her husband mistreated her or
threatened her or skimped her on her
allowance or forbidden her to amuse her
self In any reasonable way that a wife
could wish? Oh, no. nothing Of the kind
81 her own words Mrs. Beverly ID. Harris
tEys:
"I have all the luxuries In the world,
everything I want except one thing,
WANT TO BE LOVED!"
How much love Is Mrs Harris entitled
TO demand from her husband! The wife
"a In competition with the big downtown
nix. Mrs Harris has her husband In
sme--the bank really has his mind and
thoughts and attention, she claims.
frs Harris and her plant suggests the
."m,rous poem by Benjamin King printed
arCve on this page. The poet called his
vcem The Pessimist" And this title car
les the suggestion that the complaints in
tho poem are rather unreasonable ones.
It't Is the plant of Mrs. Harris unreason-
able?
CC course a complete discussion OF the
matter involves the question OF what things
are really worth while in life. Are there
other more important things than money
and worldly comforts, pleasures and luxu
ries? Is there, after all, a greater thing
something much more worth while than
Haything which money can buy-LOVE?
II has been said that the poets concep
tion OF Love in a Cottage" Is an exploded
idea Only a poet, II Is claimed, would
undertake to be happy with his adored one
in a cottage without the material comforts
OF life. The practical man and woman
know that a couple no matter how de.
voted. cannot exist on love. Would Mrs
Harris be a happier woman to-day n her
husbend was clerk on a small salary but