The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19
She Declared in an Address
That Happiness Was Not
Object of Marriage.
THIS IDEA. SHE SAID. WAS
A VERY DANGEROUS ONE
Is Called to Time by Another
Who, Like Thousands, Is
Happily Married.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.
Leased Wire to The Tribunc.

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK. Dec. lS.-Marriagc for
happiness got terrible knock the other
day when Mrs Margaret Dcland, in an
address to the National League for the
Civic Education of Women IN this city
on '>Thc Modern Woman, said: 'fTbc
idea that happiness is thc object of mar
riape j. a very dangerous one and leads
10 divorce courts. The purpose of mar
riage is the family, and happiness is
incidental. The ideal Of permanencc
makes us men and women. Women are
more ready to seek the relief of the
divorce courts than men. Women can
bear physical pain. but they do not seem
to have the spiritual endurance of
men
The wife of a very prominent citi-
zen, who recently retired from an ac
tive business life. told lne she thought
Mrs Deland talked n good many ''pipc
dreams. just because tho happily
welded men and women do not go
about tho streets of New York at the |
head eft brass bands proclaiming their
marital bliss, - she went on, lis no rea- |
son that there are no happily married |
people 10 This great city. 1t is the un
happiness that we read and hear about. |
One divorce ease, detailed in tbc |
newspapers of the big cities, docs more |
harm than any Of MS care to admit. |
Everybody now and then gets crouch /
ON. and we very often quarrel with f.
ourselves, but that is no reason for us
10 decide that We are never happy. |
/ have lived aud visited in many cities
ot this country and EUropc. and IN
Now York. ! must say it. is not safe 10
take conditions of family life as fair
sample of what 1t is like III most parts
of tho world. New York is such a cos
mopoitan city that what one is iu-
eli. 30 fol. la h..
age Is really only tho worst of the
metropolis, the good and truly substau
tlIl element hcing al home, happy and II
cnntcntcd. II is The restless, unem-
ploved. ncrcrgood anywhere element Il
that is forever and always to be found Il
Sorgeously displaying itself on our
streets.
. spent last winter in Los Angeles.
Cal. aud the previous winter in Florida.
In the former place ] found married |
happiness all around me. and in the
latter INST as much coutcntment, II
sometimes think in New York like in
Paris and Chicago, we sec all the bad II
of the environment. Most other cities
are more devoted TO local pursuits. and
The commercalism tbnt one finds in II
cities. two Of which J named, deter
mlncs the apparent marital conditions, II
while IN reality II Is false sign Of con-
dltions aS they are. II
The suf1ragist movement. the demand II
being made Tor better pay by the shirt.
waist strikers. the appeal women are
making for equal rights. is growing
more interesting daily throughout the
country. but the assault made by Mrs
prland Is new cue which many others
viii doubtless follow.
Bread Line Is Growing.
With The coming of cold wea Their the
Bowcry bread line begins 20 grow. and
already AT times, even this early season.
sometimes moro than a thousand home.
less. hungry men gather AT the
3owcry mission Ia take advantage of
3ne midnight bread line which is one of
INC features of that remarkable institu.
fion. As the winter progresses the num-
Der increases, and there are at times
nol less than $500 men awaiting the
only food they are able to get
Tho Christian Herald has maintained
the Bowery mission, known as "thc
place where God makes crooked men
straight which, besides giving the
gospel message TO over 10000 souls
annually, has established this remark
able midnight bread line. It's free
thousands of the worthy poor. DR.. Louis
Klopsch Of the Christian Herald is en-
gagged III many humanitarian works. but
in none of them does lc take deeper
Interest than in The bread line.
Good Work of Seattle Woman.
no q former Seattle woman. Miss
Ta1odora Carter, New York will owe
payhaps the finest building for con
vslescents IN the country. 1t will be
rroUin for 5000 convaleScents. The plans
have been drawn and the money to
start the work is in sight The whole
thing grew out of the work Of The Good
Cheer club society Of which Miss
Carter is president, and twelve earnest
Young women were charter members 4
They pledged themselves 10 visit the u
sick and cheer them up Miss Carter 4
SAID the other day: ''It all started so /
simply, Last year ] was i'll in Chicago. 4
Ny home is i'll Seattle. Wash, and l \
was all alone when j WAS taken sick Il
For weeks and weeks ] lay in The 4
hospital, utterly unchccrcd in any wav 4
by anyone. Ii was the most horrible l
experience of my life. aud [ realized |.
thai hosts Of other girls. and men and 1
children. even. are suffering that WAY l
all the time, and ] thought it was time
something was done. I wished. from |
the start. 10 make my movement truly /
national. so / knew must begin it in
New York My people were glad to
have me do it, though it meant going
so far away from them. So I Just came |
on here and got in touch with few old /
friends, and made Il few new ones, and
NC began.
Owes Much to California.
New y ork owes much TO Californians. |
The recent bequcst of George Crockcr.
of something like a million and a half
dollars 10 Columbia for the study of
cancer. emphasizes this fact. The Cali
fofnlan phllanthropists, as rule. do
good with brass band but if The phil
anthroplc expenditures Of D. o. Mills,
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst Mrs. Coils 2.
Huntington and other California peo-
pie were known it wonId be found to
aggregate away mp in the millions.
GRAY Hair Restored.
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