Imperial Valley Press

WE the Women
LOOK AROUND BEFORE
YOU LEAP TO RENO,
ADVISES MISS MILLETT

By
RUTH MILLETT

Even in the present shortage of eligible men, wives still write letters in which they hash over all their husbands' shortcomings and wind up by wondering if they would be better off if they just went ahead and got a divorce.

Well, that is too personal a matter for anyone to offer advice about.

But it seems only fair to give the ladies this warning:

Before you get rid of the man you have-imperfect though he may be-you ought to take a week and go around seeing how lone women spend their time.

Wander down to the corner restaurant or drug store after the movies are out and watch the faces of the lonely war wives who are going around together in an effort to make long evenings less lonely.

See if you think they look any happier than you are. Then talk to some of them about what it is like to live alone, not to have a man around to put the car in the garage, or fix a leaky faucet, or to sit across from you at the dinner table.

BETTER THAN NONE

It could be that even a poor husband is better than none. Anyway, you ought to check up and decide.

And be sure that even though you don't think your husband is any bargain, he'll probably be snatched up as soon as you let him go.

The other day a wife in Chicago, suing her husband for divorce, said in court that six women had been pestering her by calling up to see how soon her husband would be free.

Of course, after due consideration you still might feel like that same Chicago wife who, when her decree was finally obtained, said of the anxious women inquirers:

"I want them to know that he's free again. They can come and get him!"