HUSBANDS A NUISANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3599, 11 October 1920, Page 6

HUSBANDS A NUISANCE.

Miss Jane'Burr, a young American novelist who has been maried twice and has left her second husband,, has just descended upon London with some extremely novel views about marriage. She likes' men, she says, but ‘ ‘ can ’t stand having one in the house. 1 ’ She is convinced that all women are ‘'sick to death of marriage.” Her idea of a husband is a man who drops in as a guest sometimes, but who is not “always about the place.”

A good many wives have got that Bort of husband already, and they do not seem to like the type. The world rings with the wails of _women whose husbands spend their evenings at the club.

Miss Burr, however, is all for the separation of married eou^fST- tells of a wonderful ,r f eminist apartment house” now being planned in New York. In this strange building wives are to live alone, l.bdhgh their husbands may take an adjoining flat.

If we know anything of the the wives will soon he knocking on the wall. In their hearts most women hate to be left alone. How many marry for companionship? But Miss Burr’s matrimdnial ideals do not stop at mere separation. The *‘working woman.” who are to inhabit her cloistral apartment house arc to turn over their babies to “professional mothers”' in a “nursery on the roof. ” It all sounds rather like a voluntary zenana, like a variation of 11 he segregated feminine life of the East, with a camouflaged foundling hospital thrown in. We shall not believe in the new ideal of isolation while women continue to crowd into srqpking carriages. •—“Sunday Pictorial. 7 ’ ~