The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
|177 is POISONING
MODERN MARRIAGE
IDEALS ARE NOW NEG
F' rssARY, SAYS A NOTED
w0MAN AUTHOR,
VT co ON AS AT PRESENT

Modern Spirit OF o 49,
M no, Marriages, Like Our Music
s s.,'. to Lawless Rhythm
~ ,rorg1erite Mooers MarshaID
by !. poisoning modern marriage
aA1 ,,rce as jazz poisons every
its sou" IN our life today"
shng s, .;d,,Ious ancient, no profession
No ;at55IcGr-do-we-drifter voiced to me
|,..l,rrrctfnI conclusion, but a young
.hat req gifted woman. She is Mar
trac'E5E ,,ikin Banning, and she has a
aret = n n,@ three children and
aPPy ,oTcIs to do her credit and to
lfeS her ,lg from looking on life witt! a
keep 4; 5,c, eve. Not that the adjective
au M he Justly applied to the pretty
soul III + lsshed, blue-gray eyes with
ach .bc has clearly seen American
FaiC" ,;fa in the 1920s, seen it to por-
onl' = IN This Marrying" Hall
& y caves" and her forthcoming novel,
S B,t MIS- Yrs Banning has looked on
Du ,,rriage of today and found it not
4 le n@t re GOOD, and | could not fail
'os so.i, the denunciation of the "lazz
~. -. as a foe to the home, uttered
mn noe OF her heroines, when | read
Per percy Stickney Grants recent at
u /, N that same naughty spirit. He
A s.H w. with the playwright, ]. Hartley
ilo M, that Jazz may be eur nation
' nntbem and Mrs. Banning is in
) Ia e,i'' to agree with both.
\ ' Won can't play at making love
n al this dancing that is only en-
a.@@;ag-with all this loose falkland
s so" Your feeling for your husband
" rife clean" cries the unhappy wife
Mrs Mrs Banning's Half Loaves. "
yo~ can't have what they call fun
"A be a good woman. hate the way
#soole are living. If the principle they
sra a me- that marriage is an instl-
,for for the home, for the bringing
n. children. is right, then all this
H mn-is wrong.
j @Nen will tell you that the ideal
Aoman is the good wife and mother;
m YOU try being a good wife and
Aoher and you're pretty soon a dead
bore
Not All Main Streeters.
# happens that Mrs. Banning is
w in New York for visit, although
sbe lives in Minnesota, and, being a
srs Mnnesotan, begs me to say that
k5t ali the women of that state are
Eiher servant girls or half baked col
|Fge graduates-as depicted III Sin
Elar Lewis MAIN Street, ;" Gopher
Pr,rie, MINI. They are not, | know
|Or I've seen Mrs. Banning! found
Ter At the Hotel Chatham, and | asked
Der mst how far marriage is being
|azzed and what the results will be.
There is a double kick in what the
azz spirit does to marriage" she re-
bfed in a voice whose smooth mOdu-
ktions seem to give it creamy text
IRE. as lovely as that OF her white
Kin. Many marriages are spoiled be-
Eause a silly, frivilous man or woman
Eiuge, into the unrestrained pursuit
i all the pleasures which the word
Eazz' cOnnotes. On the other hand,
1 here are the marriages that suffer be-
Eause the husband or wife reacts too
|harp.v from the spirit of the age, and
II undue sternness and severity drives
is Or her partner to find a release III
azz
|. Il am not a reactionary," Mrs, Ban
Inc Interrupted herself at this point.
do hope you'll make that perfectly
.ear. What I really wrote Hall
caves to prove was the truth OF
mcnce you have just quoted to me
-Ncn will tell you that the ideal Wo-
ban is the good wife and mother, but
OF try being a good wife and mother
nd you're pretty soon deadly bore.
. hold a man woman OF today
lnst be wife and mother and some
hing more, besides She must have
ome interest not purely domestic.
Pleasure Not All of Life.
I'VE cannot 60 back to the old ira
ihons and standards and ideals III
arried life, but it seems to me we've
OF TO 60 ahead to new ones. What
e Jazz spirit does to the modern
arriage is to divert it from the pur-
1t OF ideals to the pursuit OF pleas
e. We are not put here for that!
N not altogether clear as to Just
hat We are put here for, Mrs. Ban
ng added, with the little smile that
6cs the dognatic edge OFT all she
Us, but I'm sure its something be-
les pleasure.
I'VE are living too swiftly. We are
smg leisure, quiet, the peace OF
me lie. We are spending too much
1ncy on impertinent things, instead
On the things that last-on making
+ homes beautiful, for example. we
hurrying along through married
with no feeling for its permanence;
tn the feeling, on the contrary, that
one matrimonial experiment isn't
ccess we can throw it up and try
ain"
Mrs Banning paused a moment,
en- leaned forward in her char,
eaking with swift earnestness.
We are too ready to throw up the
OF marriage" she said. That
ms to me the root of the whole
'uble. People used to marry with
idea that it was forever. Now, IN
back of everyone's head is the
"a that it doesn't matter a particle
lether the marriage lasts; that II
ur first partner doesn't suit you can
sc a second. | hate to see the JOB
marriage botched, just as | hate to
any job which the workers do not
rTy to a successful conclusion. |
'e to see the abrogation of standard