Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-01
NOTED AUTHORS TELL
STORY Of SUCCESSES

NEW YORK.-This is a double
barrelled interview.
The two parties of the first part
are husband and wife, Charles G..
Norris and Kathleen Norris, both
novelists, who write very successful
books about love, romance, mar
riage and divorce. The party Of the
second part is the inquisitive inter
viewer, who starts the conversation:
Inquisitive interviewer - 'How
can you be happ-' though married?''
Mrs. Norris-"Do you mean the
people in my books or Mr.. Norris
books?''
Mr.. Norris-"Or do you mean our
selves?'
I. I.-"Both. All. Your book
people and yourselves"
Mr.. N.-"The ecret Of success in
marriage is in the struggle for it.
1t isn't an accident or gift. Both
nave to build it up"
Mrs. N.-"Yes, by pulling to-
gether. And it's easier if they're
not rich. There are so many things
that pull apart the rich couple.
Lack of these things and the sacri-
NS@N1l 4lloNCo IO"C ~ I11O OIhNA .
happiness, keep the poor couple
happier
I. I. (apologetically)-"Aren't you
rich. Both? There's your big
prune ranch in California, and your
double-barrelled book royalties -
Mrs. N. (smiling)-"Yes, but we'd
be just as happy if we lost it all and
had to begin again. I wouldn't mind.
Would YOU, G.. GU"
Mr.. N. (heartily)-"Not a bit. 1t
wasn't so many years ago that we
were living in a walk-up apartment
on S25 a week"
Mrs. N.-"The worst thing a girl
can do is to marry for money.
can't bear to sentence my heroines
to life of rich matrimony. Mar
rled people are happier if they have
to work to get along, when they are
thrown together and made depend
emit upon each others love and
service
(The heroine cf Mrs. Norris lat
est novel, 1.-THE Beloved Woman"
turns down a millionaire for a poor
out honest suitor.)
Mr.. "Selfishness is the COM
monest cause of unhappiness. Men
.ce more to blame than women.
When the wife's to blame it is usual
~ because she hasn't got enough to
do
Nou may consider Mr.. Norris an
expert, too. for in his latest novel,
Brass" there are three unhappy
Marriages, one wrecked by hot tenn
pers, one by the wife's riches, and
ore because the wife is cold.)
l. I.-"What's the remedy?"
Mr. MA ,,,o-,,;o
ana a national divorce law. Make
both more difficuIt-the same rules
IN every state. Persons who want
to marry should furnish health GER
tiflcates and establish whether thew
nave been married before; the man
should have to prove he can support
a wife; and t. IRE should be a six
months 1nterval-with publicity
between the announcement of the
intention to marry and the cere.
mony ITSELF
MRS. N.-"It's true. Then people
wouldn't rush thoughtlessly into
matrlmony. And they'd choose more
carefully II they knew they couldn't
RID themselves of their mates SO
easily
/. I.-"How about the federal di.
vorce law?"
Mr.: N.-"Well, all divorce cases
ought to be heard by juries com
ed of both men and women.
Gauses should be felony, insanity,
drunkenness, non-support and deser-
tlon. And sometimes unfaithfulness
but only if it were so grossly cruel
mat it injured the position of the
wife and the support of the chill
L. Don't you ever get jeal-
each others best seller?''
Inc Norrlsses, Charles and Kath-
en- pooh-hooed this question and
ushered the inquisitive interviewer
out to make room for a couple of
rich looking publishers