HUSBANDS A NUISANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 242, 9 October 1920, Page 17

HUSBANDS A NUISANCE.

Miss Jane Burr, a young American novelist who has been married twice and has left her eecond husband, has just descended upon London with some extremely novel views about marriage. She likes men, s ; he says, but "can't stand having one in the house." She is convinced that all women are "sick to death of marriage." Her idea of a husIband 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 sort of husband already, and they do not seem to like the* type. The world rings with the wails of women whose husbands epend their evenings at the club. Miss Burr, however, is all for the separation of married coupiee. She tells of a wonderful "feminist apartment house" now being planned in New York. In this strange building wives are to live alone, though their husbands may take an adjoining flat. If we know anything of the sex, the wives will soon be knocking on the wall. In their hearts most women hate to be left alone. How many marry for companionship? But Miss Burr's matrimonial ideals do not stop at mere separation. The "working women" who are to inhabit her cloistral apartment house are 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 the 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 smoking carriages.— "Sunday Pictorial."