Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-01

stefan for saying that 90 per cent OF
married people hate each other. OF the
remaining so per cent half are indif-
ferent, and of the % per cent left half
are tending toward Indifference
80 you see that leaves only one
marriage in eight where the conditions
of happiness that should prevail in all
marriages are actually present.
and to what do you attribute this
general unhappiness ?" was asked.
| Ii was expected that the demon rum
was going to get the blame, for Mr..
Mitchell was recently the official dele
gate from Oklahoma to the worlds
temperance congress- held at Saratoga
But no. Rum and tobacco. 1t appears,
are merely accessories before the fact.
| They share this depravity with pepper,
| chill sauce, spices, cake, pie and negl1-
1 gent parents For the double standard
of morals to which the Rev. Mr. Mitch
ell attributes all the evils of matri-
mony is brought about, he thinks. by
all these things.
zone of the best things we have done
in Oklahoma" said Mr. Mitchell. us
the establishment of the Purity farm.
| near Cherokee of which | am the pres
| ident. This is combined farm and
school. where boys and girls may
| work for an education. The boys are
required to give life pledge against
whisky and tobacco, and the girls to
swear that they will never keep COM
ppny with those who use either.
The students also read books and
attend lectures on purity. They learn
| to unders tand that no man is a gen
t!eman who is not as pure as he wants
his sister to be; to know that there
scws wild oats.
THE greatest problem before the hui
man race today is the human race It's
| formation, not its reformation. The
greatest crime in the land is that prac-
ticed by mothers in deceiving children
about the facts Of life Nearly all moth
ers lie to their children. They tell
| them, for instance. that there is real
Santa Claus coming down real CHM
ney! That is a crime.
"When a child says. Mother. where
do l come from?' he should be
answered truthfully. If the mother does
not tell him what he wants to know,
! he will soon learn it on the street or in
the playground
| "The young man problem, which Is
at the bottom of the matrimonial
problem, is simply the lesson of self.
control The ordinary young man. liv'-
ing on highly seasoned food (pepper,
spices, chill sauce. etc.), can not be
| good If he wants to be. Add to this tea,
coffee. tobacco, and whisky. and you
have an impossible problem.
/ plain food makes the good man, and
the good man makes the happy home.
'One-half the childless wives of this
country and four-fi Of the child
rem born blind are so because of the
husband and fathers wild oats. Yet q
| boy can go clear thru college and never
have word said to him of these
| things. A girl can enter upon the
grandest profession on earth, that ct
| motherhood, knowing absolutely moth
ing that will fit her for it.
| 1T is to remedy this greatest evil
of the age that the Stella Purity farm
has been established at Cherokee. We
| have sixty-five acres, and any poor
girl or boy who is willing to take the
pledge against alcohol and tobacco and
to live on plain fare can come to lis
and work for the education that we
can give him or her. Our buildings are
not what they ought to be. and we
need $4,000 to put everything in