Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-03
TWO WAYS

Mrs. Leslie Garter, the actress, says:
 "Do men appreciate the love of little homestaying, domestic mouse as they do that of brilliant, brainy, pro fessional woman! Indeed they do not. Few men have any appreciation for the home their wives struggle to provide for them They want change. They don't want to be confined to the endless mo notony of home with just one woman in 1t. They love the sparkle. of eyes, the gleam of wine, the fascination of the variety that comes and goes. Chil- dren are nuisance. Daily routine is a bore. The girl who gives up bril- liant opportunity to venture in the un- certain realms of home is taking risk.''
 It isn't very important what Mrs. Leslie Carter says, or what any other individual says, but it is a fact that thousands pessimistically view man and the home life as does she. Yearly thous- ands of young men leave the good old farm for the city, for that "change" Mrs. Carter mentions. Advertise for chorus girls and hundreds of young women rush to the theater managers office for that brilliant opportunity" They view man, manhood, Eome and life as does MT. Carter.
 Of course, Mrs. Carter is all wrong in her premises. The vast majority of men do appreciate the love of the home-staying, domestic ''mouse!'' The vast majority of men find no monotony in home with just one woman in it. Neither to them are children nuisances, but precious gifts straight from the Almighty. Nor do they love the sparkle of variety of eyes or wines or of women, but, on the contrary, do love, with all their souls, their own wives and their own homes.
 Among say 3O,OoO,Ooo American men there must unavoidably be thousands of exceptions, thousands to whom the home and decent fatherhood arc not the aim of life, but to say that these exceptions create the general conditions is a gross libel on American manhood and charac- ter.
 Young man and young woman, there are just two ways through life.
 One of these ways is the great white way. Its doors are unlocked by money, and girls often get into it by the stage entrance. The way is full of laughter, glamour, lights. Herein you will find the sparkle of eyes, the Gleam of wine, the fascination of variety, the excite ment of abandon. Keep in this way and you will grow tired of just one woman, if you are a man, or just one man, if you are woman; you will have no home; children will be hui sance; duty of any sort will be bore.
 Oh! 1t is very gay in this white way while it lasts. But the lights go out. Variety pals. Excitement finds noth- ing in you to stir. At middle age, dark ness comes, and loneliness, remofse, mental, moral, physical degeneracy. An! it is easy to get into this way, but the only exit is great yawning abyss marked Failure and Despair save here and there crack through which the urlfathomable, mysterious mercy of God shines to porfcrm the modern mir acle of saving soul that was lost.
 The other way through life is narrow but plain.
 It has rocks, but the climbing of them gives character that lasts.
 It has thorns of temptation that would catch and hold you back, but re- sistance to them gives you tho strength of experience.
 It has only the laughter and lights that you give it, but they are true.
 Plodding up this way there will come to yon, naturally, as come to all other manly men of sense and reason, desire and demand for Gods best gifts-a home, wife and children
 Reach the end of this way, and you will find written on the door of your going forth to eternity, Usefulness; the Creators Purpose Even as your mind grows weak in your last hour, the vision of home and children will come to comfort, and your last physical act will be to press the aged form of the just one woman in it. and whisper, II Il wait for you over there, mother!''
 What is there in all this life of ours, in the great white way or in our we'll | ordered homes, compared to what eter nity holds? How lonesome eternity to | him who now makes no investment of hope in the interminable hereafter! How the hearts of men, even of those | befoggled in the sparkle, the gleam and the glamour, yearn for and how their