Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1920 — FROWN ON TOO MUCH LOVE [ARTICLE]

FROWN ON TOO MUCH LOVE

Family Authorities In Japan Dlooour•00 Anything LMco a Surplus of Conjugal Affection. The general rule of life Is that ths woman stay* when her husband love* her, bat there is one little country IB the world where the women not Infrequently are sent home by their inlaws because their husbands love them too much. That country is Japan, we are told by Amos 8. and Susanne Hershey in their book on modern Japan. This paragraph, one of many Interesting ones on the Island kingdom, describes the particular condition which sometimes sends the little Jap wife back to her own people: “In considering the Japanese family one must beer in mind the complete absence of romantic love in marriage and tbe absence of romantic gallantry in the feudal code of the Samurai. If love develops during wedded life it must not appear in open demonstration, and whenever the demands of duty are pressing affection must be renounced for the higher duty. Indeed, it has not been nu uncommon occurrence for a wife to be sent home because her busband was too fond of her, as too much affection for a wifi was considered a sign of weakness and demoralisation in tlie husband, which might lead to neglect of other family obligations. Of loyalty and chivalry there was plenty in Bushido or. the Way of the Warrior —but it was always between lord and vassal, master and servant, and never Included women, at least not during the last ten centuries.”