Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-03-22
Maximum of PriUacy Held Best
Assurance of Welded Bliss;
Disaster Result OF Intin1nco
By Margery Rex.

New York, Mar. 22.-Does the
New York woman marry only for
money?
Does she ever smile?
Is the happy woman an insuf-
ferable companion in a crisis?
Who is better able to answer
these queries than woman whose
charm and cleverness have brot
her abundant opportunity tC
study man and womankind?
Penrhyn Stanlaws called hel
the most beautiful woman in
America"
She called herself "Hildric Da-
venport" when she wrote the
trenchant and tantalizing things
of love, courtship and marriage.
She is Mrs. Hilda Davis Ows-
ley, whose recent divorce from
Harry Bryan Owsley, obtained
through her counsel, James A.
Turley, has caused her to be
questioned as to her ultimate
opinion of marriage as a happy
state.
Still a young and lovely wom-
an, older only in experience, Mrs.
Owsley has summed up for me her
conclusions on matters romantic
and practical that deal with re-
ligions of men and women in her
trying tests of wedlock.
In a gown of blue and gold bro
cade, it's almost medieval rich
ness lightened by cloudy draper
les Of blue tulle, and with rope
of pearls doubled about her slim
throat, Mrs. Owsley presented a
picture incompatible with the
sharp wit and facile pen with
which she is justly credited.
Mrs. 0wsley States Views.
"Is release welcome?" she re-
peated the question. 81 can't say
that. 1t pulls one this way and
that. My emotions are mixed,
sad.
ut is happiness that hardens
one. The happy who are un-
touched by life are very hard.
"They are insupportable COM
panions in any relation of life or
in crisis. Happiness and sue
cess alike harden people.
''That is why believe that the
woman who does not marry toe
early makes a better wife. Per
haps thirty, certainly well after
twenty-five, is the best time fol
her to marry.
"Such woman is more mellow
She has not escaped the expert
ence of suffering. And one doesn't
profit by suffering till one is ovel
twenty-five.
MEN appreciate that mellow
ness in woman. They realize
worth in what they get from such
wife, sympathy and fine un'
derstanding.
Many Mary for Expediency.
"The basic quality of marriage
today, since our weddings in mosi
cases are not made for love, is eX'
pediency.
81 don't say all women marry
for money. Some already have
wealth.
"The typical New York woman
who has her choice OF number
of men to marry, will chose the
one who can give her advance
ment.
"This woman of Manhattan l:
without - there is no English
word to express 1t - what the
French call 'tendresse.
"She never smiles, although
she often laughs.
I'VE never see upon her face 8
beautiful smile at seeing a lovely
flower, or some. wonderful child
or a smile at some loved one.
In the woman usually called
provincial. yes There we see
that smile, but not in New York
city.
MANY women who are not ap-
parently attractive captivate men
Women say of them: What does
he see in her, she isn't good look
ing, clever or well-dressed?
But such women have strong
maternal quality that draws men
They have gray matter and know
how to keep il subservient to that
Of the men they meet.
1.-The woman who infringes on
the mental capacity Of her admir-
ers or that of her husband is max
ing a mistake.
I'VE talk and talk OF the type
of man one should marry to be
happy.
Might Choose by Chance.
Il have often thought, when at
a dinner or reception, that IL
counted the men and selected, for
instance, the seventh arrival to
marry, that ] would have as sat
isfactory a husband as could
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