Evening star., 1935-08-17

with a young girl. He tried
49, to be honest and fair about
it and told me Of it and pleaded for
his freedom. He admitted that had
been a good and devoted wife, nut he
had just lost all affection for me.
Advised by relatives and friends. and
chiefly because loved him so dearly,
fought desperately to hold him and
refused him the divorce. Today. al
though still have my husband and
my home, 7 have neither My home
is just a house. I am miserable My
nerves are shattered. My health gone
My good looks going. My husbands
hatred of me grows daily. He still
loves the girl whose happiness and
his he says I selflshly ruined. for she
is married to some one else and is
miserable also. I feel now that it
would have been much better for all
me included, If I had given him his
divorce when he wanted 1t. Now ]
offer him his freedom and he says
it is too late. A BITTER WIFE.
Answer-There are as many angles
to divorce as there are to individual
personalities, and what is the wise
and the right thing for the wife to
do when her husband asks her for his
freedom depends upon the individual
temperament of the man.
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THERE are men who are born phi
landerers and who are constitu-
tionally incapable of ever being faith
full to any one woman. They will
always have thousand light loves.
They will always be chasing some
new skirt. They will always be hav-
ing an affair with some girl. And
when a man of this type thinks that
he has at last found his soul mate
and wants to be free to marry her,
his wife is quite right in refusing to
accommodate him by going to Reno
until he has at least given his affec-
tions a time test and found out
whether he Is really suffering from
the grand passion or a passing attack
Of fancy.
Nine times out Of 10 the romance
wears itself out. A still more charm
ing charmer comes along and the
philanderer is grateful to his wife for
having protected him from his folly.
The wife has kept her home together,
prevented her children from being
half-orphaned and still possesses what
ever equity she had in her unstable
mates heart.
There are other men who are good
and kind and desirable as husbands,
but who are fatally weak where wom-
en- are concerned and whom any de-
signing adventures can have for the
taking. They fall for the flatterer
and the cajoler. They are the pre-
destined victims Of the gold-digger
Any siren can lure these men
temporarily away from their wives. Any
16-year-old little chiseler can make a
grandpa believe that she loves him
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spirit Of sheer childishness that she
artlessly asks him for diamond brace
lets and emerald rings.
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MANY middle-aged man who has
" been q devoted husband and
father falls into the hands Of these
girls who make him believe that he Is
too young for his wife and that he
will turn into a gay lad again If he
marries her. And when his wife sees
that he Is about to commit mental
and moral suicide by marrying girl
young enough to be his daughter. or
some hard-faced, stony-eyed CRATER
who cares for nothing but his pocket
book, she Is justified in refusing to
give him q divorce until he has had
time to get over his infatuation, and
for his rheumatism to begin paining
him, and for him to realize that after
so o man finds his happiness at his