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9 | Why Jane B Believe in Neal R. O’Hara “What Congress Is Doing.” Court “God-spilt rain-drops, glint and beat * Down upon the granite street? Ribboned, sunlit, crystal flood: Know your end is gutter mud? “Love, yow joyous splendid thing With your royal purple wing, With your jasmine-flowered breath: Know the end of you is death!” HUS “The Oracle Speaks” in Jano Burr's book of poems, “City Dust,” und thus—only rather more so—Jane Burr herself speaks, both In her new novel, “The Passionate Spectator," which, hav- ing startled London, is due to give New York a Uhrili on the date of its publication a month hence, and in her own pink-cheeked, clear-eyed, anything-but-morbid person. “I have been a student of mar- riages for years,” Miss Burr told me “indeed | have gone about prying into persons! affairs in a perfectly shameless rashion! | have never known a thoroughly happy marriage, although | have known some ar- rangements that worked. The usual term of wild love in marriage is about three years, | have never known it to last more than eight years. Therefore, | don't believe in marriage! If we must have 1 think it should be secret, with sep- arate establishments for husband and wife, and with a divorce as easy to obtain as a ticket on a Fifth Ave nue bu: After that pronouncement I was not surprised when Miss Burr- Wholesome, —_attracti decidedly clever y< yman though she be— informed with a twinkle that for her, lost repu- me she ts in mourning tation. “pee that?" she laughed, mulling some gombre-ed, stationery from the table the rooins she 451 West 2int she is using as a desk in has just taken at No. Street—she arrived from London less than a week ago, “Lhought ever so much of It, without valizing that it was mourning per, When my friends in Lon- ened my [tera I received a pericet deluge of telegrams to this ef- ‘We kn you are the most un conventional person in the world; we can't imagine your having any family, urely you ™ have lost the ones being who means most to you in the worlu WhO 4s HB? So then T just (ol theny all that 1 was in mourning for my lost reputation—you know, Ar ad n telling n to the English r, although an Amerfean, ts ‘the greatest literary Honess of the hour in Great fr n, She prefers to he known by the nume under which she writes, but she was born Rosalind ren bes ter and heiress of the St. Li pper gnate, She hae beer hurried and once di- vorced: he at husband, whom he en for five ye 5, is Hor one time editor The rved with dd tingtion in th t war apd who ie 1 vi z | mv told mie, simap t mia temperament ana lor us we Were of us could do our ever he Ww a divorce one reoia ly sround core elf, W sould ever Induce me to marry ag “But what do you think int mat ter with marriage?’ F asked, for 1 wondered if Mina Byre’s indictment of @ agreed with my own, I differ with \ MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1920 will on Don't fail to read it. Says She Is in Mourning for Her Lost Reputation Has Had Two Husbands and One Divorce ~ Keeps Last at Distance. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall, Wa0, be tae Press Publishing Co, have another rollicking satire this page to-morrow. It tells urr Doesn't: Marriage “If You Must Wed, Keep It a Secret,’’ She Advises (Tho New York Féening World.) THE AMERIGAN NOVELIST. her in that I have found one marriage which I should describe as “thor- oughly happy; but so far as an out, wider may judge, I have seen no oth? ers which satisfy my ideals.” “When you. are. married,” began Miss Burr, “and everybody knows it, and you live in the same house of flat, you_are nothing to other people except Mr. Jones's wife or Mrs. Jones's husband, The mem @ mar- ried woman mects do not consider: her a person in herself, but merely an appendage to a husband; the women a husband meets think of him as an appendage to a wife. “1 don't mean,” Miss Burr added, a Momentary frown of distaste pucker- ing her smooth forehead, “that I be- eve in promiscuous love-making. On the contrary, I believe in absolute faithfuiness between a, mun and woman, so long as their relation lasts. But why should the love-rela- tion imply an absolute severance of all other assoclations and friend ships? Why shouldn't a husband or ife have friends of tie opposite sex, eat lunch with them, play about with them? Sometimes ‘It seema me marriage is just an arrangement invented to send people out into so- clety in pairs—as the animals went into the Ark! “Yet if you are married conven, tionally afid try to keep up your friendships and entertain your friends at home, what happens? It is almost a law that a woman loathes on sight the men husband likés best. and that he r meeting or ut her ehums earth do u see in that Woman ’s one reason I don't want a husband to live in the same blishment wit me. Even an apartment above mine in the same house, is too close, When I entertain guests, either they heir him walking around overhead or he comes down with a scow! on his face and infinite boredom in his heart, 1 don't want to know when my husband entertains company; | don’t want him to know when | entertain! They asked me in London if | thought he would be too near if he lived as far away as the garage, and I said yes! What is his proper distante?" I asked. "I should say about two blocks, M urr, Wherein she self more lenjent than Nine ox Putnam, who tofd me just af- ter her marriage to R. J. Sanderson that she and her husband would con- tinue to inhabit separate town n I personally would not marry * Miss Burr continued, “because n't want the man’s socks. responsibility of any I don’t mean that I ob- ject to the mere act of darning socks I edit the socks of at lwast fifteen bacholor friends of mine, But its the responviuility of #ocks that 1 don’ want—and ail the other attendant eponsibjlities; seeing whut a man's meals are on time, hiring servants, firing them if they're no good and getting others, ploking up tis laun presidin his dinner-parties, keeping house for him “Oh. you know if you're married, being served with, vay you're continual! this family stuff,” she declared, man gets a grouch at his offic doesn't work it off on his bos: y cause his boss wouldn't stand for it, but he comes home and works it off on his wife. Or a woman wants to have a quarrel with her cook and doosn't dare, So since cooks are scarc@& than husbands, she has a ‘el with her husband, “pple who do not live with each other treat each ather so much mute ecurteously. And ag manners: ar about all the standards ‘pir many DODOGOGDHONWEY MEN: that wor The * plays, his great he name of the woman genius who was his mother may be written in his heart, but often is almost’ uiknown to the world ‘that admires his work. That is the interesting explanation offered, not by a woman, but by a man—Dr, Alfred T. Schotleld of Lon- don his poblished book, The Mind of a Woman," to account for the favorite charge made by the depreciators of women's mental pow ers that there are few or no women in the front ranks of the world’s ¢ tors, The n does not sign her m: T poems tions. in newly subtle paychological diff ences between man's mind and woman's mind are adroitly analyzed b> Dr. Schofield, who is Vice Wresi- dent of Victoria Institule besides being a physician, and whose book is published in this country by B. P. Dutton & Co. This is how he lists peculiarly feminine and peculiarly mascultne traits—those which make an observer exclaim, “That's the woman of it!” or “Just like a man!" “Woman js leas tolerant thai man, “Men are more selfish and egoixtic than women. A man talks about himself far more constahtly than a woman, though at times capable of aublime unselfishness, Man ix un dcubtedly, on the whole, the mo self-centred. * *Moral character has more weight with women than intellectual power. ‘Men are more mobile and firo- gressive, women (tll recently) moro atable and conservative fen have great r_origit niulity, : MENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS ANALYZED { Are More Selfish and Egotistic Talk More About Themselves Are More Self-Centred Are More Tortuous and Complex Are Much Quicker in Thought In Work Are More Persevering HE difference between man's actisvement and name of the man of genius is written on buildings, his statues, TOOT TOO OOOO 8 chiefly that of woman asterpleces. lis pictures, his his industrial orsn- women more common sense, (This latter statement is only made sug- gostively), “Two mental evils are somewhat more cominon in women than men— f-pity and jealous: “Women are more tortuous and complex than men in their mental action, ’ ‘One point that stands out ve prominently in the mind of a woman ix her dislike and djstrust of the abstract in all reasoning, with which g008 an incapacity and a fear of ger cralizing “Women are much quicker in thought. ‘They can use their brains more rapidly within @ limited rang Women are casier to educate and train than men. “Pereeption and apperception (or the linking of perceptions together) are far stronger in wom@® than mer “Women are more exible than men,. though when rigid they are more rigid “In work women are vering, more perse “Women are more conventional than men and are readier to accept artific standards in’ conduct, in dress and in ethics than men. They are also more secretive, more patient, more cautious. “Wome ate more resourceful. fn all the movements of the mind, as of the body, they are more graceful, if leas powerful, and quicker if not’ so solid. “Women are more steadfast, more trustful “Men think more, women feel more.” COURTSHIP * No MARRIAGE. TS VINCENT Coprright. se ne The pada Pisliiag co, 6 6TDVEAR MISS VINCENT: 1. am eighteen and in love with a young’man nine- teen wha is a soldier in the of us, do let us cling to them! If a husband and wife do not live in the if it is a ttle diffi- same household, cult for them to see each other, each will be more charmir ch will re member to do nice little things “Even when there are children, & think they should live with te mother and that the busbar visit the family, He would tically as much of his childven gees of them now, for inga well - lated family they are jh bed beiore he comes home at night and he has about five minutes of their y in the morning. In any areangentent he could spend his Sundays with them, just as he dogs at present If he had a separate establishment, mamma and the youngsters would have a thrill whenever his step sounded “at the door." Miss Burr admits that varios economic adjustments rust take place before her scheme of periodic or part-time matrimony becomes practical for many couples, although she thinks others could begin It at once “Of course,” she said, “we have women paid well enough teresting work so that want to sink into mar p to a their jobs, and mothers should kee paid by the state, for bringing up their children. “As for divorce, anybody should have fifteen or twenty divorcees who wants them, Naturally, the ideal for which all of us hope is # love so beautiful and strong that it will’ last a lifetime, But when the no longer any love, not even a w ing friendship, why should persons who loathe é@ach other be tad stay together—or else go into c and tell their unhappiness to the world? It's bad enough to be un- happy, withont telling everybody about it” “But so often,” I ventured, “one person stops loving before the other.” Almost always,” agreed Miss Burr “Then in that case which of the two should be fre L asked. “The person who wants to end the m riage or the person who want keep \t going “Phe person who wu to ‘er she answered firmly. "We w always have been deserting lovers. If we were eng cided we made a mis had no hesitation in jilting the man. Now we must just learn to be sports and take our own jiltings! They say,” Miss Ef broke off on a note of sweetest reasonableness, “that I want to des the he Indeed, I want to do no such th I want to make it more beautifu build it up"—— “In short, to make two holies grow where one grew before,” T sug * and on that, and a smile and hand- shake, we parted. The Sparians, whoxe yery name ix supposed to be synonymvusy with all thy virtues needed by effete moderns had a law obliging a man to vivit his lawfully wedded wife by stealth, Is ‘angement Indeed the soli marriage problemy of to- what do YOU think? such an tion of t day? Wel NEW INVENT.ONS. enough tor be worn head in comfort, have been combined by an Minots Inventor for r othos N eyeshade and a battery fed electric lamp, light on the nding or Hebting riting, where not availa (The New fork Rvening World.) United States Army. He has’ aoked me to marry him, and his salary is only $42 a month. He thinks that 1 might work and help to pay the bills. Do you think it would be advisable for metomarryhim? PUZZLED. You both young, and [ th better for to w unt sable to 8i mrt 1 8 you would have vend. a al ways well © future “Dear 3 nts 1 am twenty-one years cid and can’t dance. Re 1 mad the ac auaintance of 9 er! | can't forget She loves dancing and attends at least one such soo % week. | would like to t out but know of no way to antortal n her other than inviting her to go to a show. This sort of entertain- ment will soon grow monotonous I fear. Could you offer any sug- gestions? LONESOME.” To sh id think you man of twenty-one could learn t dance! Nevertheless if you do not feel like taking few iessons invite her to a show as you planned. Dancing is not necessarily bond, and you tay find that you have many other things in common, “Dear Miss Vincent: sidered pretty and all my boy friends seem to like me. However, tl friords toll mo that many times there boys go out to parti and take other nirls. Do you think 1am con- the airls aro kidding mo, or should I drop my boy friends? Gg. G Do ni ve everything you hear Like your friends for themselves, not for what other peopleytell you about them, —_ enn rrr SCIENCE NOTES. XAMINATION of worthy nde ha ientisis ¢ trust- rn vinced there has been no appreglable n the climate Europe in 1,800 Chinese are Ca@fimated to de- troy $10,000,000 worth of gold annually by their custom of burning small piece la leuf on certain anniversaries. TAK JARR FAM Covrright, 1920, by thé Prom Pubil (Tue New York Evening World.) ‘ OW I'm guing to tke yan N children with m kl M Jarr, “but when you tinta Claus at Jon't ask iim for a let of toys tor Christmas that cost wil o' money and that you only break and throw away. for that wil moke Bunt Claus very mad. Santa Chius is very poor this year.” Little Miss Jgrr listened with an ex pression of keen disuppointiment at this recital of the Sunta Clausian poverty, Master Jurr was twe ars oder than his little sister, bul even in. his more trustful younger years, when he did believe in ite Claus, he had nouiced that one certain Santa Claus, tationed at ree near by t extogt th but he cha tablé, seem t t funds to leave his cot \ tan ind enter a fea loon —10 we satoons those days—and hore nad performed a. at that time terrify sins feat in the eyes of Mi Farr ke ing ia. by lifting up bis gray oh lias _ The Day of Rest! V-AM SURPRISED TOSEE YOu uP | SUPPOSED %4y WERE ) Rat CHILDREN ARE MAIKING Se A RACKET | CAN'T SLEEP THERE WAS A TINE WHEN CHILDREN HAD A LITTLE ONSIDERATION For THEIR, ~ FATHER. J AROUND XZ MAS To DAY, | TOLD EM SANTA CLAUS WOULDN'T COME IF THEY DIDN'T STOP THEIR, DIDN'T THAT KEEP THEM BEAUTY+™" HEALTH DR. CHARLOTTE’ C.WEST ¢ Cop 1920, by the Prom Pubdaning Co. Beautifying the Hands. ht (The New York Bvening World.) around the The New York Eevning stance, rubber gloves cannot he worn Ky Watch this page for Will B. John- Winged Boats--rer ie rey ae Mit 8. tohne ords of Uncle Sam's Naval aircraft. toa, Aight YOUR CHILDREN nay DISTURBING Bd ARE Kot Uke THEY USED To BE SO NEAR - X-MAS 2 OF COURSE EVERY’ FATHER KNEW THERE WAS A REASON FoR IT. But WE HAD THE | 7 BENEFIT oF ‘THE ) WORLD IS CHANGING ! aa Not Muck ! THEY SAID CUT OUT | THAT OLD GrACr ITS MOULDY ! 5) YOU MARRY, OUR HUSBAND l ters sare cooking stove, nor cotton BUSY woman wall Wapadlenly rioves for washing, Softening creams exclaim, “I haven't the time to and olls sould invariably be rubbed f k my hands in good con- into the handa before drawing on the dition!" Tt is an unpleasant A Lad ‘ th ‘1 hehe to an he aie BCT: ) and massage with warmoc ‘ which th nly ponsible night are quickly followed by (BY EDITH JOHNSON] = JOHNSON e Sanycer Wes, eae oH0. ch ie tt iw iy improvement, The nails put five or ten minutes each day. By shouid be soaked In tha oil while the Then turning to Hugh, she sald: Urs means the busiest woman, no femainder of the hand is maxsuged, Instalment No. 36. “Oh, Mr. Barrett, we'll never be able matter what her work may be, wil Teebing backward, toward and over HUGH BECOMES A HERO. to thank you enough, You're per- Wa nbleits Wabhiney tendicenn the’ wrist ‘cc OLD on, yon—brace yaprself fectly wonderful—we'll never forget. p hands and arms — Keep the following lotion on hund we're coming after you _ I was so proud of Hugh I could have Nn good condition and prevent them for use always after washing the justia qulok-as wei oan, fallen at his feet in worship, That from 1c though they never hands: ure of benguln. 1-2 ounce; neridan's yuivn was firm and One act of his wiped out every error had a thought or care bestowed upon oe Sew ate brave despite iony slic must &Nd sorrow of the past a aie tone akin powder that ae ore ira the cry ot Oh, that's nothing.” seid Bush i ys able 0 uni 4 he 6 pit. With becoming modesty. “You don't Bxtre heat and cold must be Mowdered inarshmallow root, 2 ounces agteie LeeaY h 1 ‘oot, 2 ol She aha! ein nd 1 were grouped Kkiow how bappy Lam to c avoided; cold dries cut the natural. carbonate of soda, 4 ounces: ground MMe tthe CBO In Wie Mac Ok Hekree dale te be Sere olls, while heat ‘dilates tho blood PAMey. me al, § ounces; thin te uned in 6 las Hugh was the real hero, Report of vessels, leaving the hands red. and Leng 7 *k—a driller!’ shouted Jim the accident had spread like wild@re® a vands require special attention or the . ‘ood. blotehy, Gloves should be worn in winter. The vasemotor system is We MARRS LO Bit ak ee BVGr be ere ore cee when emgaked in amy kind of work remarkubly sensitive to changes in '¢t him down Srakhd poked thete adialratiie. "ae tsoever, as they prevent dust and temperature and tn the cause of red... NO~TM gol" said Hugh, firmly, Mckee wrung bis han ne heing ground into the pores hands in many instances. Carele I'm thinner than any of those men, | Just ae we Were catching our breath and lines*of the hand; they protect ness in drying the hands is renpon- “nd taller, t Hugh was throwing once more and beginning to. relies the na ut akin from bruises and sible, to ee, for chapping Of bis con i sed ehcerrmle thing bad Depeemes Menus Pree U edad Necemary the . i another Instant a rope had been and what « narrow escape Uttle Rime re een, Sees of moisture be removed, Wed about Hugh's ankle. Mr. Mokee met had had, Mr. Sheridan, who Bad \ Gloves apply an ointment or lotion, und fad summoned a driller and 4 tool fp) #00 well: Is : < proces ot ot rf just with pawder, ‘This should always w opened to be right o in the far end of the field, % San ei Rot Watere: BaIne i tuoi the ground, Whilv Mra. Sheridan with up. L _ marvelous composure up a flow "What's all this?” he asked dm - of encouraging word ue Emmet, 4 went, looking first at his ltt ByY Flow L,. who was gradually » downand son. then at Hugh. ie Sane . down inty that terrible erevice be- mar cried Mrs. Sheridan, &"CSCARDELL, teen thr well easing wn { the ground 3 wore wet with tears, “The » if und who W allantly striving. to rible thing nas ‘ ani shovk bands with the good-eaint jyruce hunslt between tite ¢ ‘and’ wore just tiek tee oe. Who here personified Chrlatinas cheer. (he th, Hush was lowered head- picture as he stood on the floor of the plu oF twa did Lt napus UF. Mabtor Tare oe be oa fet into’ the: pit derrick, when he stepped back and fell a sly i¢ old atu ox of Maw pa tal OMI ne wun ae urn lov mudtaD ‘ough the trap doo Master Jarr remembered how — he uptown St. Nicholas were old the pope sould. break Picante a sued Gaeeae had fled from the scene In horror, sequaintanc Through his dense jugh's ankle and both he the visk Ofniniown Ute Oi ba i From that moment he knew in secret mass of whitkere Maator Jarr rocog- jynmet should fall into was perfectly. trighttul.’ tree i that believe in Santa nized his Santa Claus of several ofrin t ut by the blowout, nev en telling Mr. Harrett-that ‘ve ae Cinus, sto humor tie in had dost "4 his to re avin!’ F put out my hand ply cannot thank him—we haven't ¢ Ln umor hi i Ces to Mra, Sheridan, who grasped it words—but we'll never renee» nan " store in the Si his mother — Hugh's #lender bey could Ty UBROSABER enn oe nelighl where Santa Claus for ot ster noticing, “made a parely push its way through the only unperturbed “member of thy some days past had bi recelvinse nmercial Santa Claus, joe, Althouih Emmet cou Pet voatine Ohi Oona eee Nis litte friends, and answering all Hugh éoming to his reseuc, he had een ee eee propbr questions and advining them — * you want, was losing ground and that’ des AEN OL, . to tell their parents to buy on the Willie, you “remarked ing cry of “Mother, Um. slipping PR eR se ei iareey im a premises, where a complete stock of Mra. Jarr smote upon our terrified ears: 5 eee See gifts Was on display and prices wer “Ifo, you Vm not afraid? mid it was only a few minutes from the MuUsh’s slimy shoulder, lower thin elxewhere, *Master Jarr sturdily. ‘I want a gun the men let Hugh drop into tho “Yay tank © 4 for thle Little Mise Jarr*chatted excitedly and a pistol and a knife and a sword until he called back to us. “AI ,qunem We : | started for the pewmMiag ail the way to the store of what she and annor got him!” but it avomed “ide where our car stood walthog aes was golng to say to Santa Claus and “Oh. y tn't for ‘ years Pn * how she wan going to way it ves, ey barharour HEGHMRC aT Med Loin feat on fey Ss Shera ante tut arriving at Santa Claus's up- There la to be peace on carth and no the derrick floor, pulling little Bea A Wi. “te town heudquarters—it was so plas- more ware" r him, both Mra, Sheridan, and 1 3! Tn motte © Great Comme yj it itaide—little Miaw J Aw, I don't wa m war t into tears und joy @, OF SEIVIC® 10 FGU See aie c state of hyaterical terr uid Master Ju tw lem fo For ligaven's sak Ae Try tive ’ the good suint And he Santa ¢ vered with mu of help to. ¥ youl let me Master Jarr—"net auch a that that Individua ting child," gasped Mra. y ant ‘vou: i bys ont aid” Mrs. Jarry afterward dered if he hudn't better eal) / ring Hugh's words and Fob told her husband-—walked boldly in tore detective for protection. més little Emmet into dey vb