The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-28
Friendship
May Last in
Separation
Elk Matrimonial Mates
Need Not Display
.Aninosity.
BY HELEN WELSHINIER
MA Service stan Writer.

MA service stan Writer.
THERE was time-no so long
i ago either-when a woman put
a man out Of her life when she put
him out of her heart. She lacked a
No TreSpaSSing' sign on the front
door and her former reason for lIv-
ing and cooking and darnlng socks
became as welcome as a shower on
Easter Sunday morning.
The woman never. under any cir
cumStanCeS. went calling on the
man who had not proved peren-
NAL answer to her virginia. prayers.
You see, nice women didn't call
on former husbands The women
knew how the men looked when
they forgot to shave for a day. how
men SwOre when their collar button
rolled under the wardrobe. how long
they liked their eggs cooked and
whether or not they were suScept-
BILE to feminine wiles.
When two people separate in
anger certainly friendship IS not
possible When one party, or both
parties, still love, but for certain
eXigency have decided to so lonely
ways, friendship has its drawbacks.
But when two persons still like
each other, although they no longer
love each other. if they want to Use
first names and ask about each
others investments why shouldn't
they? There is a catch in the sit
uation, though. Two persons who
like each other-and who have once
loved each other-uSually continue
to live together unless there is some
obstacle which puts them definitely
out of each others way.
Where Modernity Ends
We argue that we are modern.
We insist that we are broad-minded.
We assert that If John Jones has
had seven wives and wants to have
them all come to dinner it is his
privilege to entertain the chorus.
Certainly it is. But most men Go
not want their former loves around.
Most women do not want to meet
the woman or women who have APP
peared in the replacement act.
No, marriage is an intimate rela-
tionship between two persons A
man or woman who has given up
the role of co-star doesn't want to
watch the play with another in his
or her part. 1t is human nature
If it we're the customary thing for
men and women to get together with
the men and women who have rated,
or are going to rate in their marital
lives we would not express surprise
when we see the related-by- mar
rage groups eating onion soup to-
gether.
Wife Meets Successor
Mrs. Cornelius H. Tuszynski. who
divorced her husband in Reno the
other day, stopped in Los Angeles.
after the divorce, to see her former
husband, William T. Davis, and his
present wife, Mrs. Florence Aldene
Carts Davis.
Mr.. Davis. you may recall, spent
nine years in prison for killing a
New Rork detective. While Mr..
Davis was in prison, Mrs Tuszynski,
then his wife, made 100000 for
him. OF course there is an affec-
Tomato memory between the man
and the woman who aided him. The
divorce that followed, some persons
contend, shrould have banished
that. Human nature is strange. A
divorce sometimes ties the score.
After all, if persons want to be
friendly, why shouldn't they be?
Men and women are nice to their
former fances, their ex-business
partners. We are not arguing for
divorce or against it. That is be-
side the question. But when two
persons have built part of their lives
together they should be permitted
to conduct a normal conversation
without the neighbors raising the
blinds or listening to hear what is
being said.
The chances are that the man
and the woman are discussing the
pennant prospects of the Cardinals
and the Giants. If these men and
women felt Economically about each
other, they would still be married.
or at least they wouldn't be accept
ing each IN a purely friendly man.
ner.