San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-18

bitter unhappincss coldly. forbade the
house to the fascinating physician
upon whom Hopes undisc0uraged eye
was set, and, instead of discussing n
third divorce, had her examined by
what today we could call psyche.
snalysist, who announced that she had
what we would call in today's jar
gCn) a sex complex" physical, moral
and mental, with the approach Of
motherhood and must be specially
guarded and Isolated at that time.
Hope ragged, wcpt, fought in vain,
bore son-and lived happily with
his father for the remaining fifteen
years of her life.
If, indeed, we short.sigEted human
creatures could love when and how
we choose, how different the world
would be! But this phrase seems to
me sacriligiOus in this particular con-
nection. LOve-why, that is the great
est word in all the world!
Don't these good persons. who use
ii in discussing this matter, mean
only the natural sex impulse that
leads to those other perfectly natural
anu lllG
rearing of the worlds young?,
Love That Cannot BE Bestowed.
Is there-or isn't ther:-a welded
love that can no more be bestowed
when and how one chooses" than
can mother love, sister love, or the
love of children for their parents?
You and are not afraid that the
children will find some other mother.
will return from school some day and
tell us that the exquisite nCurs wheu
broken, and the place of that little
sister who trotted to school beside
enc, who showed one, first of all, her
engagement ring. who laid in ones
arms so proudly her first-born child
when that place is empty, may one
indeed fill it casually where and
how" one pleases?
Real Love Sacrament.
Surely-surely, love is always a sac
rament; our loves are the tiny glints
and flickers of gold that reflect di-
Unity and goodness and infinite free
for light in our dark hearts. Love
means giving a part of ourselves away,
losing egOtism and selfishneSS in a de-
sire for the happiness Of somebody
else. And the word sacrament"
means IAN outward sign Of an inward
grace"
Some day, perhaps, We shall all see
marriage as the few, few men and
women who achieve a happy mar
riage see it: simply ones share of
the world.
The world is full of mistakes, in.
| justices, and stupidities, and so Is
inarriage-and so is single lite. Your
fifth marriage will be just like your
fIrst-it is you, yourself, that must
change, and, by so changing for the
better, improve the old world by just
that infinitesimal fraction.
1t is almost impossible tr visualize
world under the AlmUn-Hensley
theory it would be so different a
world in every way.
No enduring marriage; no divorces,
because they would be superfluous
minor children in the mothers care,
supported, l suppose, by the father
CT by the state; no hOmts. in the
sense in which we now use that word
LO Daddy at the head Of the table
carving the Christmas turkey:
would one have three turkeys, one for
each Daddy!
1t presents difficulties, but ] am not
making fun of it. Far from it. Like
any other theory, perfectly worked, il
would work perfectly.
Democracy would be perfect, II We
We're all perfect. Socialism is abSo
lutely perfect, in theory And be-
rguant autOcracy-a benevolent des
pot-thats the perfection Of govern
mPnt, after nll-if it's perfect. II j,
the abuses, not the uses, Of this new
sort Of marriage that tInfy one il
contemplation.
: Conventions are distastpful things
: but thousands Of women are held In
: dscency and safety by conventions
; Laws are hatcful-only a little bet
ter than lawlcssness. Prohibition Of