RICH WOMEN AND QUICK DIVORCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1922, Page 7

RICH WOMEN AND QUICK DIVORCE.

NOVELISTS IDF.AK OF LOVE AND MAURI AGE. Miss Jane Burr, the well known American feminist and writer, who has strange ideas of mnrrloge owl lore, arrived Iα Euglaud recently.

Miss .Burr, who is a member of the wealthy Guggenheim family, was wearing her famous kniclierbocker suit—riding breeches with a green jumper and grey stockings aud smart shoes—a form fit dress ehe affects to prove her Independence of accepted feminine notions and of her cpinlity with her second husband, Mr. Horntlo Wlnslow.

"1 am not 'out of Invp' with my hushnnd," she declared, "but I have Just gone out of the marriage business. I have quit it for good. I do not intend to divon-e my husband. I am still fond of him. and have left of my estate in my will.

"lie Is a 'dear old thins-' ami I am quite fond of Tilni, nn<l dou't mind mothering him: I>iit. as I have said, I om out of the marriage business." I low she began with love is seen by her declaration. Love is the result of "some chemical process of emotion." "I do believe in love," she had declared, "but I woul.l like to believe there is a lastliitf love. The grand passion usually does ■not last more than three years, aud sometimes the first year is not tided over."

Miss Iturr said she married her first husband when she was eighteen because she waft tired of the limitations of a wealthy home and wanted more freedom, and flenied she divorced her first lmsbaml beenuse he smoked. "He Knve dip everything I wanted, but I only felt miserable, aud I longed fur still more freedom."

"Marriage is the only state which cannot be changed at the will of the contracting parties. If a house does not suit it is left, if a business is not liked it Is changed. Why not deal similarly with marriage?" she asked. Miss Burr, who is thirty-nine, anil has no children, has also Rome strange views of a parent's duties. Here are some of them. "Parents ."ire the worst people in the world to bring up children. The children have no chance <">f freedom. They are •jahbled up - by their adoring parents. Tlie mother worships the hot-, and her roraam-e with the father is gone. The father adores tbe girl, and his romance with the mother likewise vanishes." MUss Burr was reminded that she herself had adopted an orphan chilrl. -'Oh, yes," she laughiDgly replied. ' My parents have only a few million dollars, but it is to come to ine later, and then I shall have plenty of money for my schemes. Then I am going to have ten children." Miss Burr is starting on a five years , tour of the world to study the marriage problem, and. incidentally, hopes to convert women to the hal)it of wearing knickerbockers, i She also means to preach "easier divorce." so easy. In fact, that the formality" would consist of taking a ticket to the officials and getting it punched.