The Women

To help promote the movie Vacation from Marriage, the editors of the Vancouver Sun asked their women readers a provocative question: "Why would you like a vacation from marriage?" Trigger-quick came 3,000 replies in three days:

P: "It would be lovely not to have to poke my hubby in the ribs every few minutes to make him stop snoring."

P: "I am tired of having my husband call me 'Mommy.'"

P: "This game has no 40-hour week. . . . About the only thing the Government did not put a ceiling on was the work to be done by a woman at home."

P: "One thing I would really enjoy for one week--a dry lap."

P: "I'm 34 on my next birthday and I've never had a family. . . . I've tried radishes, cabbage, celery leaves, carrot tops, and with no luck. . . . Do you suppose a change of climate would help?"

P: "My husband is always saying, 'Hey, Vi, when are you coming to bed!'"

But the Sun's editor gave the prize to one with a more wistful tone. Wrote Minnie Turnell, who at 45 has been married 27 years, raised three children: "I've often dreamed what it would be like to go away alone and be in a hotel and, for awhile, worry about nobody else. . . . If I had a holiday like that, even for only a week, I could remember it with sweetness for the rest of my life."

For that, Minnie got a new outfit, went off for a week's free stay in Hollywood, to hobnob with movie stars.

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