HOLIDAYS APART.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 204, 14 June 1929, Page 3

HOLIDAYS APART.

A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA. Recently the “Daily Mail” published a number of letters and articles on the advisability—or otherwise —of married' people spending their holidays apart. As a consequence the righteous world rose in wrath. Holidays apart? Such an idea was ridiculous!

“But why?” asked Ursula Bloom in an article criticising the different opinions expressed by a number of writers. “The main object of a holiday is to have a change; not alone of air; freedom from the office, from the house, from the friend who is always popping in and out. A change of everything. It cannot be a complete change if husband and wife take it together. “II havq tried a. holiday together and apart, and for the sake of our complete marital happiness I would! aJrrays take my holiday alone. I realise how shocking this is. I have a maiden aunt who is profoundly grieved that I should think, the way I do. I imagine that probably as a spinster she has never considered the question deeply. “The fault with marriage is chiefly in its monotony. It is the most monotonous partnership that we have. It is all day and eyeiy day and no time off. If one really wants to enjoy life to the full, I have found there is nothing like the ruse of leaving off when you still.want more. Half the attraction of the fiance is that you know his affection is rationed and the time of your njpetings limited. Likewise, if every married] couple were made to take a month’s holiday apart every year, no matter how they expostulated, the divorce lists .should not be quite 60 full. They would return to the marital abode with new topics of conversation; they would have realised that other people in the world can be just as trying, if not a little aior© so, and that after all lie (or she) is rather a dear.”