Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-06
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FULKERSON,


There 20 the Wades," exclaimed Imo-
gene, as she stood looking out of the win
dow 'They are in the automobile from
morning until night. There is no such
thing as home life in these modern days."
she finished, with a sigh.
els that SOP" said Andrew. "Do you
know where Wade spent his time before
he bought that machine? I know you do
not, but I know and it. was not with his
wife.
Before you decide that modern things
have destroyed home life let me suggest
that you go and interview the proprletors OF
cafes, the owners of pool and billiard par
lors, the women in the burlesque show busi->
ness and all enterprises that were depend
ent particularly on the patronage OF men.
"Where Wade once spent his nights play
ing Kelly pool he now spends them rolling
his wife and children around the parks in
his car. The automobile has brought men
and their wives closer than any other
amusement of modern times.
what is true of the automobile is
equally true of the moving picture. In
stead of going down town and rolling ten
pins, men will nowadays take the wife and
kid or two and step around the corner to
movie and then stop on the way home
and buy a box of ice cream at the drug
store.
"When he would not take the trouble to
dress to escort his wife to the theater he
will slip into his coat and go to a movie
with her. The movie, like the automobile,
has brought them closer to each other.
"What is true Of the automobile and the
movie is also true of the Country Club,
with its tennis courts and its golf links.
The automobile has made them easy of
access and the wife is taken out Also as
every preparation for her comfort has been
made and an al fresco dinner at the club
will get Mr.. and Mrs. Wade just wee bit
closer together than a half dozen ordinary
dinners at home.
"You can go right down the line of mod
ern things, and every place you touch you
will see this same tendency. The general
use of the telephone has put man and
his wife where they can get in touch with
each other several times day, and when
any little chance comes for man to ring
his wife in on a party he is more liable to
do it when he can call her and give her a
chance to get into her glad clothes before
hand.
Gwen the modern dances have this same
tendency. In the old days before we had
canned music machine in every home,
we had to go out to some public place to
learn to dance, but now we can practice
all the latest steps at home with our wives
until we have perfected them and then go
out to the public places to exhibit our skill.
"This makes tendency for men to
dance more with their own wives than with
the wives of other men, because your own
wife has had enough experience to know
how to avoid your feet.
$50 we find the automobile, the Country
Club, the telephone and the movies all con-
spring together to bring men and their
wives closer together than they have been
in years while the thoughtless people wall
over the loss of the good old-fashioned
home.
''If my memory serves me right the old
fashioned home was place for men to
house their wives and children and eat
meals Today it is getting to be a real
home"
Copyright, 1922, by 21st. Century Press
Inc.)