The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-13
There's No Cure For The Golf Diagnoses
By DOROTHY DIX

The vail of the golf widow is heard in the land, and it is an ex- ceeding great and bitter cry because the fate of the golf widow is even worse than that of the sod widow or the divorcee.
 Consider her case. And if you have tears to shed prepare to shed them. For the golf widow is neither fish, nor flesh. nor good red herring among women.
 She is q deserted wife who cannot collect alimony.
 She is woman who is husband less in good weather, yet she can pot take unto herself another mate.
 She is lonely and companionless, yet she cannot exercise a widows privilege of consoling herself by finding substitute for the dear departed, to fill the vacant chair at her fireside and sit opposite to her at the table.
 She is bored to tears spending her time waiting for a man who only comes home when he cannot see to play any longer. and whose conver- sation is Only of his game (than which there is no worse affliction), yet she is debarred from the grass widows diversion of playing around with other men.
 In word, the golf widow is a forlorn, neglected creature. without any redress.
 For golf is not yet recognized as cause for divorce, as it undoubt- edly will be when women get to taking a more active part in fram- ing the laws Doubtless, in the flu ture, it will be quite common to read in the papers where Mrs. A is suing MT. A for divorce, naming q riblick and certain other golf sticks, unknown, as correspondents Or that Mrs. has discovered that MT. B has found his affinity at the Bonnie Brae links, and is spending all of lis money upon it. A sympathetic lady judge will award them decrees absolute and adequate financial com pensation as heart balm.
 However, this millennium for the golf widow has not yet arrived. and in the meantime she sits under the willows by the river of tribulation and lifts up her voice in lamentation. There is not mail in which I do not get a dozen letters full of the walls of these sufferers.
 Tt isn't that we object to golf in itself" moan these abandoned wives, "or that we do not realize that men who are cooped up in offices need exercise and fresh air, or that we begrude our husbands any legitimate pleasure. But we do protest at being widowed for the entire golf season, and being left husbandless and com I anionless. with nothing to do but stay at home and take care of the children while our huSDandS are off enjoying themselves.
 Most of our husbands have thefr Saturday afternoons off, and go di- rect from business to the golf links They get up early Sunday morning and rush out to the links again. and we do not see them until they come home to feed. so tired with their day in the open that they fall asleep all most at the table.
 We are worn out, too, but 1t is with cooking, and sewing. and mend ing, and baby tending; with washing little faces, and trying to keep rest less little children interested and would like an occasional afternoon or Sunday off while husband looked after the kiddies. or took the whole family somewhere on little excursion. And we surely would ap- preciate little conversation from our husbands that indicated that they still found Us worth talking to.
 "Golf's all right. We want our husbands to play it-but in modera- tion. We want our husbands to re- member that they are just as much married to us as they are to a golf ball, and go 50-50 with us on their time. We want them to realize how selfish they are to spend all of their leisure on the links. and none with us, and that it is just as much up to them to help take care of the chill dren in summer as it is to us.
 We are tired of getting our eX