The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
Women's Great Problem Is
10 Hold Husband, She Says
Mrs. Roberta Menges, Pearl OF
sheepshead Bay" Gives In
teresting Experiences From
Own voIuminous Matrimonial
Career. r tA
By MARGERY REX.

ny MAnuEnI nEA.
NEW YORK. Jan. -l4.--Woman's
best career take II from the feminist.
w. L. George. or leave It, Is man.
But woman must beware of cult
vat4ng career only to lose II to
another woman.
Translated from the Georgian into
aids and abels a nickel-nursing hus-
band is only laying up bank account
for another woman to hand over to
dressmaker.
The warning comes from an OBJ
server OF woman's career. Man, and
from one quite as competent to judge
as the sharp Mr.. George. And that ~
In word. more or less. Mrs. Roberta
Menges Corwin Hill Tearle, known
early in life as the Pearl OF Sleeps
head Bay" and later recognized as a
sparkling ornament to pay circles In
Europe and America.
with all the amateur .vamps'
/, that are running about these
she Is known, 'the woman who
helps her husband save money 10
merely laying up . bank account
Tor another woman TO spend"
MRS. Menges does not deny that
she Is planning a lew husband-that
is, q new career--and. says she be-
lfeves another American mate would
be quite TO her liking. At present she
10 at the Waldorf. getting ready to 60
to Washington to sue Prince william
OF Wied for 100000 loaned to him
before he became King Of Albania
as well as to trace Jewels stolen from
her some time ago.
Retains Much Of Her Beauty.
Gowned in stylish black, hated
picturesquely, also in black, with
dropping plume, Roberta Menges re-
veals youthful slenderness. She re-
tatns much of the arresting good
looks that must have been hers in
great degree when she ran away
some years ago from Sheepshead
BAY and from Miss Ely's fashionable
school to wed Ashley Corwin, the
spender. -
''Wifely extravaganza Is merely self
Defense" she declares. Out Of the
crammed storehouse- Of her varied ex-
pcriences and contacts with life,
Roberta Menges. who was Mrs. Con-
rad, Mrs. Hill, and Mrs. Tearle, as well
as heroine of many romances, dis
live 1t. v
For every. woman who loses her
husband because she h at fault
there are n thousand who lose
their husbands because the men
Getting married Is easy, she de.
clares. but staying married is q baf-
fling problem.
THE trouble begins before mar.
rage" she says. Men pay so much
attention to a woman, they even
keep 1t up till a year after the wed
ding, and suddenly they withdraw It.
The woman, however, has become
accustomed to this attention, gets to
like 1t. and finally is. conscious of
missing II very much. t-r So
There's man am thinking OF
worrying right now. will think
Great Love Comes But Once.
zone must love deeply to marry,
or one could never stand some OF
these experiences.
But the really great love comes
once In a lifetime.
How can a woman tell the great
love- Of her life? Oh, you know you
want to be with the man all the
time, you are wretched without him
and will let nothing in the world
separate you.
''There Is . man for every wom-
an, and II she Il willing to put
herself out little she can get two.
II take no stock in this idea that
any woman who sets out in earnest
can capture any man she wants.
Some writer said any woman who
was not actually deformed could
catch any man. He was wrong!
81 should hate to believe that,
what would be the use Of marrying
any one II that were true7
THE right man may come upon
the scene anywhere. A girl never
knows where she may meet her fate.
I have known girls who, found rich
husbands on the penny bus in Paris,
I'm New York the girl who must
ride in the subway or her sister
who must work in a restaurant need
not despair; they will meet their men
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