How To Be Happy Though Married.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18805, 6 July 1929, Page 19 (Supplement)

How To Be Happy Though Married.

By

GLORIA SWANSON.

{Famous Film Star.) my mind, the greatest unhappiA ness in the world comes through interference. No woman should try to live her husband's life for him. Why not live her own, getting all the happiness out of the world she can without encroaching upon the affairs of the otfier? Happiness comes from within aiid develops the character. The wife wiro tries to have understanding and tolerance and sympathy will get along. But neither she nor her husband should meddle with the other’s privacy. There is where trouble begins. No one can possess you 100 per cent. I suppose at times my husband may think all sorts of things and say all kinds of things about me because one minute I am Marie and the next Josephine. But if he takes Gloria he must like all of me, good and bad. I am morbid and emotional by nature, but I have developed a sense of humour through long experience. I think emotional people are tiring. I seldom fly into a tantrum, but when I do it means something. There is something about each life which is individual and with which the closest relationship should not interfere. For instance, I have never permitted my children to be photographed. I do not want to impress upon them that they are the children of Gloria Swanson, the actress. I want them to grow up, developing their own personality, their own individuality. I do not want their pictures in the newspaper offices to be resurrected and printed if they should choose to live quiet lives. In other words, I do not want Gloria Swanson, the actress, to interfere.

Nature has so constituted us that he physical charms of one sex appeal o the other. Personally, I admire a nan with broad shoulders and deep best. It signifies strength. Feminine urves and lines and dimples do not rouse my curiosity in the least. I 'link almost every* young woman feels hat way. It is normal and natural, t is the exemplification of sex’s apsal. And that’s human nature. There aren’t an abnormal number of ivorces in Hollywood as has been freuentlv alleged. Remember, Holly--ood has more well-known persons livag in it than any small town in the orld. The motion picture play'ers are nown by sight to millions and milons. and when one of them goes into he divorce court it is news to be flashd all over the globe—flashed wherever lictures are shown. Patrons of the heatres come to feel they more or less now them. It's a sort of local news The way to get and hold a husband, believe, is to give him his privileges ithout interference, to ask few quesons about his outside affairs, to deand and receive his care and protecon, to let him feel that he is the aster of the house, and to take his ord as an edict, and to let him know hat his wife requires him to be worthy >f her respect. (Anglo-American NS. Copyright.)