The evening world. Newspaper, September 3, 1913, Page 13

ee THE FAMILY JAR 9 USUALLY THE- Wore American Homes Are » Wrecked by Check Books Than by Despoilers. ROWS ABOUT FINANCES. Mark E.’Swan, Dramatist, Says Almost All Wives Have to Ask for Money. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ‘Tho family jar is in reality the fam- fly purse, It’s the checkbook and not/* the Dlack-mustached despoiler that wrecks the American home. finance comes in at the door Fomance} files out of the window. way to agree about dollars and cents) after marriage is to agree about them When And the only | All of these conclusions may be prop- erly drawn from Mark EB. Swan's just) To be gure, Mr. Swan ts not the first to trace the connection between cash and connublal woes, Several hundred years ago Burton, in his famous “Anatomy y," propounded the ques- “Is matrimony @ matter o° money?" The pun was borrowed later by John G. Saxe, thg English poet, and answered in the affirmative by many who should know. There are no less than aix persons in Mr, Swan's play whose threats of hell and hopes of paradie, maritully speak- ing, hang upon the financial relation between husband and wife CAUSE OF QUAR- RELS IN AMERICAN FAMILIES. “Do you really think,” “that the money quarrel looms #o large in the average Ameri- I asked the “Almost every woman has to ask ‘her husband for money," he re- piled.” “That i¢ ‘the tragic roct of ‘the whole situation. The wife has to undergo the daily, weekly, yearly humiliation of having every dollar ohe spends doled out to her as one doles out pennics to a child. There {# consummate irony in that line Of the marriage service, ‘With all my worldly goods I thee endow.’ ‘Im real life it becomes, ‘What aid you do with the quarter I gave “There isn't a detail of the domestic @chemings and recriminations about money. with’ which my” play’ is filled that I haven't taken straight from real Mfe And the feminine comments on the play more than support my obser- vation. For that matter, 1 discussed it all with my wife while I was writ- ing ft and her suggestions were invalu- But Mr, Swan hymself has evidently done some shrewd watching and clear [Smooth, F Hairless Skin | Followsthis Treatment Among the home-beauty helps none perhaps is more important than that which will free the skin from obnoxi- A simple method e skin of unsightly hairs is to make @ paste by mixing powdered delatone with water and applying for about @ minutes. see rubbing off. With it comes every bit of hair and when the skin is washed it wil be firm and free from blemish. Results a if the delatone a fon wale at Piers only. 00 a THE PEOPLE'S NEW FLAYGROUND, ; AR na __ DIAMONDS DS ON CREDIT, OR MONTHLY PAYMENTS, Diamond Ce. | @ MAIDEN LANE, Tel, 6868 Cort, + ; My fret glapce at him J noted with re. wret that he wore on artist's tle, with | small bows and soft and flowing ends, ; such as Edmund Russell used to dis- play at hie studio tear, A person must @ really clever ¢o overcome the effect |of such @ tle, and I soon forgot Mr. | Swan'a money question,” he continued earnest- ly. “I think that our writers and play- wrights and social students over-em- phasise the eex problem. Their rule seems to be, ‘When in doubt, play the triangle,’ but, in nine cares out of ten, our divorces are not based on the tri- angle situation—not really, whatever the arrangements to cheat the lew. “The trouble lies in the increasingly bitter discussion as to who shall spend the money and how much ghall be apent. And the thoughtful young wage- earning women looks on, as did the girl in my play, and are afraid to marry, afraid to risk the opening of another sordid quarrel, | E family td In employ “But do you think the American man is naturally stingy?’ | asked. “He is not atingy, but he has his own potnt of view,” replied Mr. Swan. “' finds it almost impossible to put himeeit in his wife's place, to realise what it would mean to accept daily doles from |. He can be generous much more easily than he can be just.” “And what settlement of the matri- monial problem do you recommend?” “But where, in this scheme of things, cones the martyred American husband, who earns money only to fling it into hie wife's lan?’ I asked. “One certainly finds him in every second novel of American life that one picka up.” IT'S A DIFFERENT Mr. Swan responded, with a dry smile, “The majority of American wives have not merely to ask for all they get, but they have to account for their expendi- tures, Perhaps they are allowed charge accounts at one or more big ator ‘Their husbands like to see them well dressed, and then they are excellent advertinements of prosperity. But they have little real money in their purses. It's of course a common trick for a woman in such @ case to make an arrangement with her favorite shop whereby extra Items she has not pur- chased are added to her bill and she and the shop share the rebate. “In my play the young couple about to be married draw up a legal contract, as for a business partnership. A cer- tain eum In to be devoted monthly te Joint household expenses. What re- maine ts to be shared equally between husband and wife, neither one to inter- fere with the disbursements of the “I'm not so arrogait as to attempt to lay down a general law of matri- eonciuded Mr. Swan. “But 1 do say that if each couple were we have installed PRICES STILL LOWER. edge of embroidery. GIMBELS Store Opens at 8:30 and Closes at 6 The Latest Sensation of Paris! Of course, presented to America by GIMBELS it made you imagine the scent of a delicious rose? Well, these Blouses are made of just that color. Soisitany wonder that the Parisienhes adore Blouses of such a delicate shade? 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