The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-11-03

| l armed her against the censures
OF the world says Goldsmith in the
vicar OF Wakefield" showed her TIA,
DOCKS We're sweet, unreproaching com.
panlons to the miserable, and that II
they could not bring us to enjoy life
they would at least teach us to endure
1t.
Those readers who felt Mr.. Hutchin.
sons last novel. This Freedom, was
mistaken in its contention that a wo.
man, when she marries, must give ur
business pursuits in order to make a
proper home, will be sure 10 be pleas.
ed with Edwin Balmer's new tale
The Breath of Scandal" little
Brown, $780, In 1t there IS q very
definite arraignment of the kept
wife," the woman who lives with he,
husband without any Intention of hav.
ing children and without doing any
real work; for you can't call taking
care OF a kitchenette tpsrt0lent real
work for woman. When a .irl NOR.
ries man without intention of having
children-children, plural, children
not just one child to display as your
duty done to your husband and society
she's no better than the woman We
call mighty ugly name. That Is how
1t looked to Marjorie, the innocent
young girl who holds the center of the
stage. At least it was her final conclu
sion after she discovered that hel
mothers chilly personality. social am
billions and frequent seasons abroad
had been the cause of her fathers
seeking warmth and appreciation else
where. The news came in tragic form
and her efforts to protect tas family
from public scandal lore the home
asunder; cost the life of Billy, the
boy who loved her; and carried hel
into shady resorts But the point of /,
all comes at the end when she PRO
poses to Gregg Mowbray, Billy's Chun
(who had wrecked his own fortunes
for her sake) that they do not wait tC
power, but that she keep on working
in the position which she had found
and not put off their happiness, or lei
move into better flat or the buying
of car come before the welcoming OF
the babies. With all, she nad seen or
bota sides of the question, it is unlike
ly that such a girl would make the
mistakes which wrecked the happi
ness of Rosalie in This Freedom"
Andre TridOn's new volume or
"Psychoanalysis and Love" (Brentanot
$2.5O.) is not a book for the immature
10 read. The psychologist wears nc
gloves when he handles the fundamen.
tails of happiness in the relations be-
| tween men and women. 1t is careful
and thorough survey Of his own find
ings in analyzing the difficulties OF
hundreds of neuratic patients, and Of
his studies as a member Of the MedicO'
Legal Society and the Society for For,
ensic Medicine in New York City. as
we'll as the International Association
for Individual Psychology of Vienna
Whether or not one agrees with him as
to the solutions for the unhappy con-
ditiOn in which many married couples
find themselves-andm many unmarried
folk-we must admit the sanity Of var
ious of 1is conclusions, sane as they
are unpalatable For example: "The
passing of the SNUG, self-satisfied
Jehovah husband, a neurotic in every
case. is in sight, and his passing will
facilitate the adoption Of some of the
inadapted women, some of whom fail
to find love, and some Of whom do not
dare to seek it. The successful modern
woman is rather conceited. Some Of
the things | said about female artists
apply in a great measure to the woman
who in business or in profession has
managed to make her mark. After
struggling for years for certain OBJ
iect which she has at last attained, sht
ia naturally loath to surrender hel
personality to the average husband O.
| the self-styled masculine type. Tit
masculine man is in no danger OF pass
ing away and he will forever be as at
tractive to woman as the female wo
man is to him. What has been killed
in men by the growth Of femanism II
not masculinity but boorishness,
characteristic not Of the strong but
the weak. What has been killed II
women is not feminine sweetness bu
overfeminine Stiffness which womei
used as deceptive weapon agains
the domineering male"
All physicians should read this bool
carefully: all nurses in charge OF ner
vous cases; all parents of neuroti
children. or husbands and wives O
difficult" partners. But it is not
book for the idly curious. 1t shoul