The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-10
MEN NO LONGER
SEX SUPERI0RS
French Women Rebel at
Obedience Clause in
Marriage Contract
3 PARADES ARE SLATED
Many Lodges Sending Bands
and Drum Corps; lst Cere-
mony Of Religious Nature
by NEWTON &. pARKE,
/ y. =. staff Correspondent.

| y. $. staff Correspondent
PARIS. July "a husband owes
his wife protection. a woman owes
obedience to her husband" These
two sentences figure in the marriage
code of French laws and around
them q fierce battle now RACES In all
society circles in France.
/ The trouble came when Senator
Martin, a supporter Of womens sur
frage, introduced an amendment IN
| tho senate to have the second GEN.
tence suppressed Or modified. NJ.
Martin considers the sentence AZ too
humilIating to women and thinks
/ that such terms are unnecessary In
/ the maTringc vows. He believes mat
/ the affection "A woman has for her
husband should suffice to call Tor
obedience without The law treating
married women AS though they were
school children.
Opinions Of woll known French
women have been sought on the sub
ject and here are some of their an
swcrs
Madame Mropolsky, a French
woman by birth and an extremely
capable woman lawyer, says: "ArtI-
Gle 2I3 cine one containing the
above two Clauses) Ii quite harm
less. IL carries no penalties. There
are happy married couples who be
licve in 1t and on the other hand
there ar happy married couples
who axe quite of contrary disposi-
ton. Law Is powerless TO fix the
rules Of marital Intimacy"
In the opinion of Mile. Fanny
Heldy of the Paris opera: IF the
husband is rGally superior 10 his
wife then the latter oDeys him out
of pleasure and not because the law
says SO. II tho contrary Ii the case
and It is not rare TO find II so
then no law on earth viii mako "A
woman the blind folded slave OF her
husband As for husbands prOtec-
tion, we are quite capable Of pro-
teCting ourselves and | think we
have proved that. Article 2l3 should
certainly be bauished."
The Man Should Obey.
The celebrated doctrcss Mile. Pei
letter is much Of the same opinion.
Although ! have never had hus-
band" sho said, II also find article
.213 very humiliating for woman
Our country is very much behind the
cipation OF women is far advanced.
Thcre marriage has been socialized
not women. All domestic work
lh done By professionals and
the education OF children * given
by the state. a woman can thereby
live intolliEcnt.y and Independently
Secretary OF a section OF the Union
for Womons Suffrage. Madame
Bach -CremicuN, finds the incrlmi'
mated article absolutely iniquitou5.'
"To think" she says, "that a married
woman Is considered incapable Of
properly conducting herself Mar
riaBe IL an association; there ~ no
chief In practice. happily, the law
does not exist. But on principle /
think il should be abolished
Mile. Madclcin Roch, the famous
French trdgcdienuc, would merely
change article 213,
There Is no need 20 suppress the
article" she said, simply change
II around and make It read that a
husband owes obedience to his wife"
Madame Colette, a well known
writer. when asked for her opinion
replied: Il had forgotten all about
IT although II must have been read
TO me twice. As such a text never
existed in my married III" feel alb
solutely indifferent whether 1t Is
suppressed or not
Even sporting circles were not
spared in the search for opinions
on "A subject which is interesting
France go greatly, and Milo, Helene
Dutrieu. Frances foremost woman
aviator. thinks; Woman ls made 10
obey man. don't think the law so
badly constructed and, after all, II is
so simple not 10 get married II you
do not want to accept the incOnyeni-
enco as well ts the advantages Of
married life,"