The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1920, Page 11

DEFENDS MARRIAGE LAWS; Y DIVORCE The cis¢ussion of the marriage and BUT FLAYS EAS Dear Miss Grey: divorce laws should be continued. vitally affects you and me, each and every one of us directly or indirectly, and affecting the individual, will, in affect the state and nation. & similar manne: In my estimation, our mar of the highest origin. not to be made light of by us But our divorce laws It is a question that either} | | riage laws are the best, being) Marriage is a divine institution and} mere mortals. words will not express my dpinion| of the origination of these laws which make it so easy for aman to break his word to If man and wife do not keep their word with each other, vice versa. can other phople trust them in the business or social world? Several years ago, when I stood up beside that little eweethe: t of mine | the mother of his children, or} | HAT do YOU}| think? Write C he thia Grey, care of attle Star. and promised “to love, honor and | | cherish untit death do us part.” I/ | ee, Seant Pe A oe ~ — cents, and a note which the baby had Promise, and to eat oF |torn so badly I could not read tt,| knowledge and ability, T have so Mr land that is the last I have seen of fulfilled that promise, and life t# be | nim. tt was nine long years I atood | coming more beautiful each year th that wonderful pal of mine. ‘The most disgusting Hing that has ever been printed in your paper ap peared on the front ps few days ago. J refer to the woman who gav is abuse for my children. After ho left, I got sick and hte folks came and took the children to care for, and he came back and haa| been © them as a whip to get me back her Meas on married life, wherein she states that a husband ts not; My owm father offered me a home Necessary in the home. { I would leave the children behind, Im the name of decency and self-re- | 4nd 1 would not go. I needed a wpect, what docs she mean? That|friend# but found when in trouble would be a fatal stab at the heart of the famfy and, as a consequence, a stab at the heart of the nation, un dermining the very foundation upon Which it was builded. Is human passion, that #0 soon fades, being mistaken for true love, which never grows dim? Or why will a girl sell herself to the highest bidder? Is love being com taltzed, or is ft a thing forgotten in this day | they are often scarce. I think in a case such as mine, a divorce should be just as easy as 4 |marriage. God makes love marriages jin Heaven, but the devil makes « food girl fall tn love and marry one} of his subjects | And sometimes the man is auch | }@ good Mar that the court gives him | the children, lke it did here a fow et weeks ago. God didn't have any- of greed and graft? Can a man, sup-|thing to do with that—It was the plied with all that wealth can give| iw men made law | y at love? Doesn't | Sai aaeey Without love? Dveunt! are 1. 24.” from your taper a girt lower b If-respect just Uttle when she marries for a matecial consideration? Does a man think any more of a wife that he has Iter ally bought than he does of his thoro- bred horse? ‘These are just & few of the numer Ous questions that Mit across my mind. I will not attempt to answer them, for after everything is said and done, {t is up to each fndividual to live his or her own life in an in dividual way. Our married life has been a suc cess, so, if all my experience could throne, don’t be selfish enough tq make other clean, unhappy women | and gira go down, Just because they | loved and were fooled. when love! turned to ha like mine has Tj think love meets love and can forget | it & chance. | I don’t aay women are the only| ones fooled. I think low of good men are treated just the same™as I/ ve bert, ONE OF MANY Roasts Woman Who | Sends “Bluebeard” Flowers | «—— THE SEATTLE Two PPE WE ALE NAS Peeraw| ss | Seattlle Style 0. 81-—The Star’s snapshots of attractively- dressed women on Seattle streets COMP CN! BY OF SNL OUDY O : OL EF NRTA BN Fa eS STAR P. lio Woltait Cali AGE 11 , (Saas ee eee AP OWNrr77 60 (CARTRIDGE SILK CLOTH UME wndcailes : en nn - ontessions of Bri Copyright 1920, by The Neugpaper Ertterprise, Associa THE BOOK OF ANN IN CONS ae G DIVORCE, ONE CANNOT NEGLECT THE VALUE OF THE HOME FOR EVERY COST n) When Ann's mother bad finished {so he had mado a fortune, after a ver story of the unhappy ending of | process which distinctly had nothing what evidentiy bad been a genuine | to with art He offered to ove match, I didn't know whether | a libe allowance on Mr ai © i# an evil or not, It surely | but she would have nane of was moat interesting to compare|was a good deal to admire Mre, Tew an Mother Lorimer as Mra. Bont they t hand-inh on the chaise But Mother Lorimer was undoubt longue before the log fire edly the happier woman. That good | ‘The two women had faced the|°d-fashioned institution, the home, | }eame problem and had solved it in| Certainly had its value for ® woman | different ways. On the whole, it|°f ber years, Yet she had been at| |meemed to me that mother had ar. | '? mt 6¢ styoe & up. when Bros} stved at the barpter ecnahussen. Mere)“ d daddy for a while. She had was the old-fashioned woman's con rained from divorcing daddy only clusion: Maintain the home at any | fF the sake of her sons and their | dndividual sacrifice, ang at the price | ome | ef Gil pestenad prése! | ‘The years had passed, and now| Daddy imer had become the most | Mrs, Best handled her affair with | 40) or, ome man" in all the town, | & recreant husband in the most MOd-| an example to young men and to ali jern way, She had disourded bim and |» vshands! } | gone to work, Which woman Was)" Pvidently, in considering divorce, the happier either in the form of Mrs. Best's ro- | Mother Lorimer was, I thought mance, or a9 a wide national prob- | because she had her family and her , One couldn't neglect the value jhome, and the relief from financial | o¢ the home at the last of life. | Worrtes which should be the reward) 1 suppose the ¢ at privilege of of every mother in ber old age. clusion? A home | Mire. Bost had preferred her free) should be a refuge, it should whut jdom to a life with a man who no out the world of ubles, and en-| longer loved her. But in accordance | clone the world of peace and com-| Iwith the new “idealism” she had also fort. Jasaumed responsibility for her own) 1¢ i is a place of peace, neither support, at a time when she should the husband nor the wife will give have been previded for by the man| much thought divorce, If they to whom she had devoted the best | ar¢ pily united in the cultivation | years of her life of zinnia bed, the man » do the man justice, he had of iy not apt to let his thonghts run fered to provide for her. He had | riot after the red roses of love. | been nomewhe Texas when the! Once when my own Rob went phil war br out to andering after Miss Katherine M that dreadful wi 1 ht to him his own responaib’ lor the permanence of our hdppi in marriage. is what he replied that I am « t care of my health, I'm supposed \to look out for my business, and’ the upkeep of my house. If 1 play with fire, I may burn down my house If | j I philander, I may destroy my mar ‘Red Domino Plays Please jthe Red Domino jof the Univer tiger man admit presented by Dramatiq Society! of Washington Riding habit and juvenile coat of new silk. ae BY CORA MOORE material's substantial body ‘lending evoked justifiable applaure at their] riage If I own @ ear or a cat, Tl pias i flo car or a cat, ¥ 7 a thorit iteelf especially to tailored lines. premiere Tuesday evening at the must look out for their care. Only| 2e York's Fashion Aw digs Patan see solr XY. M. C. A. anditorium. The play-\in Jove and in matrimony do we| Even shoo tops are being made of | lets were written by teachers and leave everythi ‘That's {the cartridge silk placed on the mar- ket by the United States government. udents of the university ridiculous, my darling, 1 admit. I'm he charm and poetic inight of! not going to shirk my share of re.|These are of the coarser grades of Glenn Hughes’ “Pierrot’s Mother,” | sponsibility for the success of our |the material The next grade makes was happily preserved in the acting | marriage.” draperies, and the next finer, suits, Be combined with youth, I do not hesitaté to say that | would choose the same life with the same mate. Dear Miss Grey: T read in the paper recently where a woman sent oy eRIE }@ bunch of roses to the self-con- HAPPY, THO MARRIED. | essed murderer of nine women, | “Bluebeard.” Dear Miss Grey: I have been ‘Watching your columns to see {f some who had really suffered would ite on the marriage and divorce wn, bot, lke myself, they just read with disgust what the’ happy per sons sit back and write. I, too, am a mother, like “L. M.”, with two beautiful little girla, altho I ‘The mawkish sentimentality which Prompted the gift is revolting. Why uid any woman show appar sympathy to a killer of other women? Is it a fellow feeling which made her kindly disposed towaris one of the lowest creatures of mankind? | Why should he be given flowers for ~—Photo by Cress-Dale. The wide-brimmed hat, which is black, is neatly trimmed with a band of black grosgrain ribbon, finished at the back with a tailored bow. DAISY HENRY. My husband had always earned|°D¢ of his murdered wives been a; his “pving by ing qusaticuahie| relative of hers, do you suppbse she women work for him, and he was a| Would still have presented him with | gambler. As far as my folks knew | lowers? he was the owner of a business(7). Since she had no finer sense of | Well, to make a long story short,| the proprieties than to do as she did| I didn’t get enough to eat, and got a| there should be a law preven’ beating every six months that put me| Women of her sort making such to bed for a few days, and at last| Solute fools of themselves. I won he got so vile I told him if he|der if she ever gave a decent man couldn't be true to me, and give his & butch of flowers? 1 doubt it ehildren the love they craved, he had| evidently only pats the human beasts | better move. on the back. Women of her distorted As @ last resort I had been work-| vision shonld be in an Insane axy ing to get food for the children while|lum. My women friends share my he was in Chinatown most of the| views, and I am sure thefe are num. If the lady pictured here will eall at The Star’s editorial rooms, she will recetve two tickets to “Our Mrs. McChasney,” at thé Wilkes. Saturday's Fashion picture was of Miss M. Dahlstrom, 923 Liberty Court. trupexe performerw, DelA-Phone tm! a bu Pearl White appears in the screen werial, roller of currency reports The cont time. When I came home that day’ bers of others who do also, #0 I hope | (eee that more national banks have in he had Jeft me a dollar and fifty you will print this F. BB. deere mae ae reaped the suet satel nadia rd : LIVELY MINSTREL SHOW | comet Sett canttal Ss the tat st months than tn any other 12 months in the last 20 years. The Sturdy | CRYSTAL Electric Washer Operates faster than other makes because its cylinders run in one di- rection only. 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