Revolt Against Marriage have no use for marriage. What I want is romance—and marriage just knocks that on the], head. I can't stand having a man always about the house. I must be free.'—Miss Jane Burr, the young American novelist and pact, in an interview in the "Daily Is there any indication in this country of a similar revolt against j Marriage! It is the opinion of Miss MI. L. Deaton-Liedeman, secretary of the Vivorce Law Herorm Union, that among a group of intellectual women there 18 a development along somewhat similar lines, Wuy Fey Hesitars.
"They hesitate,' she said, "to copunit themselves to a bond from which there can be no release except through channels for which they have no taste. The preseat divorce laws are undoubtedly responsible for the refusal of a certain number of intellectual young women to marry. They' decline to face the prospect of a union from which, however disastrous, there jcan be no legal escape. 1 know several cases when the girl—bril-hantly clever—has preferred a so-; called free union' to the conven-anal te."
"ts it an atutude that is spread. ing?"
"No, 1 should say not; but it is Provavie that the wider education women will make the call for Givorce fow reform more insistent.
"Is the highly-educated woman, who works at her own job alte: marriage, quite a success as a wite "Certainly. The happiest mar-nages are between those who have intellectual interests in common. It is the others that come to grief. 1 have one typical case before me just now. The husband is intellectual, but the is not. After a time they discovered that they had nothing really in common. The result was that when the man got home in the evening he read the newspaper or a book. The girl resented this, and protested. They are now drifting towards separation.
"On the other hand, I know two Professional people who have the happiest married life." Both work at their own job, but they make a point of keeping one evening a week entirely free. Then they dine together and go to a theatre, or visit friends.
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