The Washington times., 1924-10-31
HUNTING
REMEDY FOR
DIVORCES
Many Conclude Easy DEGREES
and Even PoIygamy May
Solve Problem.
BY ALICE LANGELIER.
international News Service.

PARIS, Oct. BIZ "should the
marriage bonds be looBened up2"
This is the question the Paris
Soir" is putting before its sub
scribers for light fall reading. Not
few FrenchInen have come to
the conclusion that the minister,
or the priest, IL in the habit Of
tying q very hard knot when he
Joins two people at the altar.
Philosophers, writer's, politicians. ar.
lists, rich men and Worklng.girls
have sent in their opinions on
the question that u a. old 90
the hills and atill without q 90.
luton.
Marriage Il great game" says
Charley C1uny. "Those who lose
are rarely persistent. They give up
easily and begin again with new
cards. Those who win, and there is
q goodly number, play the Charlie
magne, but they never tell the Sc.
cret Of the game. It would be use
less Il they did, for there are as
many ways to play It as there are
players"
Child Is Problem.
All agree that marriage Il not
what it should be, but just how TO
change It 10 another question. The
child il what makes it q dangerous
one.
I'VE forget too much the role the
child plays in love. or rather, we
have been considering love as the
end b9 air." says Paul Geraldy, the
well known author oe ssAirner" and
'iToi ct Moi" I'VE must educate
the masses to understand that a
woman who has not given a child
to the man she loves has given him
nothing, and q man who does not
his wife,
ITO marry il one thing: to have
chloren - another" says Madame
Lucie Delarue-M ardus. Az long as
there are but two, there is only
question of man and woman,
whether married or divorced. But
when third party appears they
become parents ana have no right
to destroy o home. To give life,
may become a. great q crime as to
destroy It. Do what you like with
the marriage bonds as long as
you are but two; but the third
has Q right to your union-an alb.
solute right. which appears to me
more rigid than that of the ancient
kings-and more divine too"
To reconcile the opinion of Ma.
dame DelArue- Mardrus with that OF
Leon Frapie, we must consent to
polygamy.
Seek Less Restraint.
"The ideal union" writes the
author Of Ia MaterneIle," ''is one
free of every restraint. Because OF
the enormous excess of girls over
boys, love has become an unknown
thing to countless women. This is
contrary to the laws of nature, and
the only remedy I can see for It,
IL the greater facility for divorce.
Thanks to easier methods of break
ing the marriage ties, men will be
able to contract several marriages
Ia Q short length Of time, and thus,
in spite Of the disproportion Of the
sexes, q large number of women
manner. Then after this. the law
should forbid the remarriage Of
diVorcees-ther aren't enough
AAAGll LUZ LIldLs
"This is all very WELL" answers
Mademoiselle Parisys, Of the Casino
de Paris, ''but polygamy is like
Ewes apple, It has no attraction
unless 1t is forbidden. Look for
proof Of this at our good friends,
the Turks. Only forbidden fruit
has charms"
Madame Maria verone, celebrated
lawyer in the Paris courts, is Of
the opinion that marriage, as 1t
now exists, no longer corresponds
to actual conditions.
Claude Farrere, who is the favor.
ite writer from Brittany, declares
that he has no opinion whatsoever
on the marriage question and re-
fuses sharply to add anything to
the paris Soir" QUESTIONABLE.