The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-17
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IF MARRIED men with

l. wives, could get it through
their heads that the fascinat-
ing sweethearts they want so
much to marry, after a di-
vorce, are just the same as
other women, and will make
wives no better and no worse,
how simplified and stabilized
marriage would be!
And if attractive young
women, mildly bored with
seven or eight years of wife
hood, could possibly foresee
the complications into which
tempting illicit affairs on the
side would draw them, one of
Americas most serious So
cial problems would be les
sened.
But a husband will continue to
think that the lovely. eager. SYM
pathetic girl in the office has no
faults. And his wife will 60 on
dreaming Of the perfect lover-like
that man she net at Jane's-so
polite-so handsome-so attentive.
And so the mischief goes on, breed
ing incalculable difficulties, heart
breaks, Establishments for all con
cerned.
Same Situation Over Again.
When Mildred divorces Bill and
marries George, things usually 60
wonderfully for a few years-per-
haps three. But then, if any woman
friend is mean enough to remind
her of some Of her sentiments at
the time of the divorce she meets
a cold stare from Mildred's eyes.
/ Mildred doesn't remember things
exactly that way.
IN never forget how you and
George adored each other!" babbles
the friend. DO you remember you
two used to meet at Chez Louis
and simply stare at each other for
hours? Remember he used to call
you my little Duchess and moon
around places where you were dining
with Bill?!'
No, Mildred doesn't remember
that. She admits that Bill was such
a brute she had TO divorce him or
60 mad and that George had been
crazy about her for years, and so
she married him. Further than this
she doesn't go; the subject seems to
hold no interest for her.
Sensible Viewpoint.
No marriage retains. after the
first few months or year, the trem-
bling glamour of the honeymoon;
sensible women know it, and resist
the illusions of the new affair. And
sensible men remind themselves
that the girl friend. all sympathy.
youth, fragrance, lure today, will
turn, after a few years of marriage,
into just another faulty. unreason-
able, selfish and eXtravagant COM
panion as was the discarded wife.
Which brings us to "Bobby's" let
ter, which came to me a few weeks
ago. This is part of it.
After a few years of marriage.
when our two girls yer seven and
Ave" writes Bobby. My wife and
I drif:ed apart. We seemed TO have
no interest in common and life be-
/ came a dull and dragging affair for
us both. l was then travelling for
my firm. and met a woman | will
call Hazel. She was a most SYM
pathetic and understanding friend.
and we became lovers. Hazel giving
up her JOB and maintaining a little
establishment in a town some 20
! miles frcm my home.
EoEby's Complicated Problem.
when my wife discovered this
she left me. but did not Immediately
apply fer a divorce. A year passed
and l was promoted. moved to an
other city. and had an opportunity
to meet some unusually interesting
people. One of these. a young radio
actress. is everything l ever
dreamed of finding in a woman. of
fine family. beautifully educated.
lovely in every way. We are deeply
in love; Margaret (the radio &C.
tress) for the first time.