The Washington times., 1932-10-28

sELDEa AldOuS HuXley-and he has not de-
veloped his theme He merely said that he took pleas
ure in domestic life.
have been hearing at the movies and in the theaters
about the usual number of jokes about marriage and,
being than usually depressed by their staenes
made the discovery that the jokes stale because they
are illusions to something that has been dead for
erations; that is, the circumstances of ordinary
rage. Long ago | heard the familiar objection-think
OF seeing the face every day at the breakfast
face at the breakfast table every day would be an
unmaginabe horror But that complaint at least pointed
70 one of the ancient embarrassmens of marriage-hat
people IN pioneering days lived isolated and were thrown
SO exclusively on each other company that they found
pleasure only in making catalogues of each others faults
Impressive Household Jokes
Another point that impressed that most of the
Jokes and complaints about the married state referred
20 details OF housekeeping. That running house
deadly chore was true until forty years ago; it has
now become so gadgeed and budgeted and electrified
and mechanzed that need take very little time and
tnat te IS positive pleasure 1t not accident
that in Dinner at Eight which dealt with the lives of
pretty expensive people (although most of them were
bankrupt and more of them should have committed
suclde) the most agreeable show was the kitchen
place OF brightness in color heartiness in tone and
solid, romantic melodrama The living room of the old
1any was all good taste and little comfort the office
was frowsy Gt was old office-nodern ones are
m@eay @ as NICE as kitchens the bedroom of the wanton
1ch was hldeousy modernstic by inenton) and so on
comfortable. N WY anu '0i'
On the other hand, there is Sir Francis Bacon wise
and disabused old who wrote that the with wife
and children has given hostages to fortune" and was
clever enough to add that hey mpedments great
enterprises either of virtue mischief Most marriage
haters that the who has to consider wife and
children cannot devote himself to the best that in him
cannot attack the capitaisc system, for instance or
grave injustice because he has to think of those depen-
dent him. They forget that he is also held back from
crime and viciousness by the same deterrents
Discipline of Humanity
Wife and children Bacon goes on are kind of dsci-
pine OF humanity and suppose the that chill
dren especially look toward the future remember
nearing teacher of economics say that man was en-
titled to money he had not earned so in voice Just
about to change inquired whether he thought inherit
ance was morally justified. "You won't ask me that
question he answered when you have children of
own" He was right, but only because he is dead
He right, also, in thinking that those with children
have interest in the future which different from the
casuaness enthusiasm of those who have would
like to have list made of the great reformers and the
great revoluonaries to how many of them had chill
dren in their most active day. For it that
many reformers extremely anxious to change the
world that it will be happier world for themselves;
whereas conservatives want to prevent any change
so that there will be kind of dependable world for
their children to live in Perhaps the best thing of all
would be to discard both great parties and create
oneshe party of parents and the party of the chldes
Then the issue would be clear. t<