Produced by Suzanne Shell, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THREE THINGS BY ELINOR GLYN PUBLISHERS HEARST'S INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CO. NEW YORK Copyright, 1915, by HEARST'S INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CO., INC. _All rights reserved, including the translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_ THE QUINN & BODEN CO. PRESS RAHWAY, N. J. CONTENTS CHAPTER INTRODUCTION I THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH II THE GOSPEL OF COMMON SENSE III MARRIAGE IV AFTER MARRIAGE V SHOULD DIVORCE BE MADE EASIER? VI THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTHERHOOD VII THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MOTHERHOOD. SECOND PAPER INTRODUCTION I have called this little collection of articles which I have written "THREE THINGS" because to me there seem to be just three essentials to strive after in life. Truth--Common Sense and Happiness. To be able to see the first enables us to employ the second, and so realise the third. And in these papers I have tried to suggest some points which may be of use to others who, like myself, are endeavouring to reason out ideas to a good end. How often one sees people who could be very happy, and who yet with incredible blindness and stupidity are running their heads against stone walls (or feather beds!) and destroying all chance of peace for themselves, their mates, and their households! Everything is very simple when it is analysed down to what nature meant in the affair--and by doing this one gets a broader perspective. For instance, nature meant one thing in the connection of man and woman--and civilisation has grafted quite another meaning into it, and the two things are often at war in the State called marriage! In the chapters devoted to this subject I have tried to exploit some points which are not generally faced, in the hope that if understood they might help towards Happiness. The thing which more than half of humanity seems to forget is _the end they have in view_! They desire something really ardently, and yet appear incapable of keeping their minds from straying into side issues, which must logically militate against, and probably prevent, their desire's accomplishment. This is very strange! A woman for instance profoundly desires to retain a man's love when she sees it is waning--but her wounded vanity causes her to use methods of reproach and recrimination towards him, calculated certainly to defeat her end, and accelerate his revolt.