The Washington times., 1922-12-04
TELLS HER
VIEW Of
LOVE
Mrs. Warren Says Married
Couples Need Philosophy
to Live On.

MTS. TJuWh VuTToW, W hu1eouo
City, Who divorced her soldier
latDver husband after she had
learned of his romance tOith an
English girl, tells in the following
article Uhat she thinks Of girls
Uho make mis-step, of marriage,
of love, and her husband. She
plans to take Miss Nancy Jordan
and her three-year-old son to her
Kansas City home Within a feU
days. Miss Jordan came to Amer
ica at Warren's request.
BY MRS. FRANK WARREN.
Copyright. 1929. by Cosmopolitan
News service.)
NEW YORK, Dec. Mar
riage must be based on philoso-
ply. / mean that happily mar
ried people have to be philos-
ophers. If you can't be philo-
sophie about things no amount OF
independence or experience will
help you.
That is why I think that eco
nomic independence for women
would not solve the marriage
question. For marriage is an in
dividual problem for every indi-
vidual who goes into it.
Most Couples in Love.
Should a woman give her husband
to another woman? That is an
Individual problem. Some women
would probably hold on to their men
no matter what happened. Others
would give them UP. And 1t works
both ways, for the man. as well as
the woman.
Marriage vows, Of course, are
sacred. But what human emotions
are variable. Most people are In
love when they marry-but most OF
them slip out of II afterward.
That sounds terribly cynical. I'm
not a cynic. have q great xest
for life. I am enjoying living now
more than l ever did before. But
neither am q sentimentalist. !
hate sentiment. 1t Is usually IN
sincere.
am truly thankful today that
this Thanksgiving season brought
me Miss Jordan and her little son.
During our correspondence ] became
very much interested In her, and
now that we are together. / am
even more 30.
I am glad that can help Miss
Jordan and little Francis. Miss Jor-
dan Ia really q remarkable girl. And
when a girl is placed In her position,
there is only one decent thing to
do-try to help her out Of 1t.
I am interested in all girls. 1t
seems to me a shame that girls are
condemned for a thing that men can
do without restraint.
OF course, a girl can survive this
sort Of thing, but 1t is a great deal
harder for her than II is for a man.
Men knock about the world in the
name of experience" Girls are
denied any experiments before mar
riage.
/ wouldn't dare say that girls
ought to be allowed to make the ex-
periment-or that I think marriage
might be more successful thing
II they were.
Mr.. warren and ! were divorced
because we could not be happy living
together. We found out our mis-
take soon after we were married.
Our divorce had nothing to do with
Miss Jordan.
I deeply regret al. the reports that
have been made public about us.
They put Mr.. Warren in an absurd
and false position and make II
harder for Miss Jordan.
y I asked Miss Jordan over here
simply because I was interested in
her case. I should be interested In
any girl placed similarly. II took
In all of them, I'd have to move ints
a bigger house. but / took Miss Jor-
dan because l knew Of her.
Mr.. Warren and Miss Jordan are
friends. As said, she IL q remark.
able girl. She In cultured, and has
done well by her little boy.