San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-14

Have you heard about the Ellises!
What! You didn't know they were
going to get a divorce? Isn't it ter
rible-and to think they have only
been married three years. Such a
surprise, too. Every one thought Les
ger was such nice chap. / guess you
never can tell about those quiet ones.
Probably he was a brute. How poor
Mabel must have suffered! She was
such a popular girl before her mar
riage, too. Why, she could have had
her pick Of twenty fellows. No one
knew what she saw in Lester Ellis.
/ bet she's sorry now"
So once more we drop a tear on
the lovely victim of mans perfidy.
But now comes an unnamed Swedish
woman writer who says that this vic
tim stuff is the bunk and declares
that its dollars TO doughnuts chat Ma
bel is to blame for the divorce rather
than Lester. Listen while she ex-
plodes her stuff:
THE driving factor in 80 per cent
of all divorces is the wife, even if she
understands it cleverly enough to play
the passive role and create the impress
sion that she is the suffering party. I"
Note the nasty dig" clever enough
to play the passive role and create the
impression she is the suffering par
ty." Somehow that bears all the hide
Gus earmarks of the truth. Is there
anything easier in this day and age
than for a female to hang all the
public sympathy about her neck! No,
there is nothing easier. At the very
first cheep of divorce, we turn upon
the male and call him a low brute.
The lady doesn't need 10 say anything.
She merely needs to sit tight and look
doWn-trOdden and the alimony is hers.
However, if some one doesn't gas
this anonymous Swedish Jane this
snug little graft is probably doomed.
For she goes right on to say that most
Of our divorces are due to the restless
ness and ruthlessness of the female of
the species. Men mill about in their
youth, but when they once settle
down they're strong for staying put.
Not so, the ladies. As soon as the
first rosy glamour Of marriage fades,
they're on the fit. According to this
literary Olga, the modern woman is
a romantic buccaneer, constantly oD
the rove for new craft to conquer.
"She constantly wants and expects
the highest measures of attention, such
as she learned to enjoy in her honey
moon days. The modern husband will
have to change himself il he expect
marital happiness.
HE must never cease to be the bride.
groom and must learn how to satisfy
the emotional whims Of his wife"
The writer sums up her ruthless ex'
pose by telling US it's going to be an
opener and opener season for divorce
from now on. The more jobs the Ia
dies get, the less they'll stand and the
briefer they'll stick in matrimony.
Maybe it isn't going to be as bad
as Olga thinks, but it won't hurt you
or me to stop and consider things 8
bit. Sweden can't claim any glory
for discovering the fact that Ladies
aren't the pink and white paperweight'
our grandpas thought they were. Prob
ably even grandpa had reasons 10
doubt that theory, but his grip on tn,
economic situations enabled him TO put
it over. You've GOTTA be a paper
weight if some one else controls YOU
eats.
But now that pay envelopes are
partnership affairs. Myrilla is coming
out in her true colors. She likes hel