The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-22
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Others v avs More Dignified
Than Fighting to Hold
Mate, Is Belief.
BY MARGARET WATKINS.

~ "hAsthAhcl wa nkANS.
HOW far should a woman 60 to
hold her hu bands love?
Should she resort to fistic COM
bat and hair-pulling when her fair
rival "gets him in her clutches"
as in the case of Mrs. Charles
Townsley?
Mrs. T, nlsley, the wife of a
travelling lesman, administered a
severe bea ng to her husbands al
legged "afl nifty" in the Munsey
! building, o.. Monday, because she
said the woman had "yamped" her
husband.
FistiCUffs as Last Resort.
She adm " she resorted to this
desperate 4. ans of winning back her
husbands affection after the usual
route to mans heart had failed
via the stomach. She had cooked
him Brussu.S sprouts, mushrooms,
and juicy g. eaks. What to be done
to hold a husbands love? Women, at
tention! The usual formula of wooing
q man throtgh choice cookery has
failed. Woman's time-old formula,
too!
How ar should a woman go?" is
the question which is now holding
the attention OF moralists, and wom-
on prominent in social and civic life
of Washing on will attempt to give
an answer.
Right Fight, One Says.
"a woman has a right TO fight to
hold her h. J'ani's love-" said Mrs.
Edna X. ] shee, secretary of the
Juvenile T ective Association. II
don't presC - to the doctrine OF sit
Ting back letting the other wom-
I'm take o.. = husband away from
pne. Let J. go to it.
II believ ihe should try to hold
her husbanH love as long as she
Feels he Is worth It. / do not be-
aieve phys n force is the proper
bands love. however. There are
means viii + are just as belligerent,
but more effective"
II believ fighting as a means Of
retaining n husbands love is carry
Ing it entirely too far" said Mrs.
+. l.. Ranaome, president of the
1ousekeepers' Alliance. Il believe
N holding a husbands love, but as
% resorting to fist-fighting, that is
mdignified and unbecoming lady.
A man lik to feel that his wife
8 a lady and he admires most lady
ike WAYS. Let the wife hold her
husbands love through the disni-
he'd ways long established through
natrimony."
Fighting Called Degrading.
"Does 1t occur to a woman that
here is no use in holding a mans
bve If there Is no love there?" asks
lieut.. Nina C. Van Wrinkle, director
the Womens Bureau OF the
Iolice Department. 1T is too de-
rading to fight. Women are too
dependent on men. They should get
pine useful occupation to occupy
heir minds and stop moping around
he house all day over their hus-
ands. A woman shouldn't fight
Ner a man. That is the wrong
ay to try to hold a mans affec-
lon. II a woman would learn to
distinguish between love and no
nance" there would be less domes-
lie tragedies.
Marriage should be above such
ealousies," is the view of Mrs.
kiies Scott Rafter, president of the
district Congress of Mothers and
farent -Teachers' Association. THE
uestion of a husbands love is a
ubject that should never be dis
ussed. l hold that marriage is a
hcrament. 1t Is holy, and beyond
DISCUSSION. l think we should take
for granted that husbands love
neir wives and that there is no
ecessity for finding means for hold
a husbands love. 1t is a ques-
on too delicate for discussion. On
rests the very foundation of
bciety, and the home itself"