The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-10

of The problems of marriage and divorce anl her sug
gestiou OF remedy present evils she but includes
that city Of the great municipalities in which
her work is TO be done. Mrs. Austin is not Il New
Yorker talking 10 New Workers. she is a westerucr
talking 10 Americas wcsterner who has begun, this
winter TO ''poneer' in New York. 1t is part OF
her directness should be passionatcy
unwilling to beat about the bush that she should siren
uorsly refuse allow her very straight talk TO be
''toncd down..
Women have been driven for centuries to throw
themselves back their appeal-their mere sex ap-
pcal--to men, she went on continuing that same
straight talk, 'Jt has inevitably about that
have cultivated those qualities that appeal 10
their ghtest AMI often their uuwortbict side
For centuries the tendency Of civilization has been to
bring all that is least valuable in the characters
tics of
''Jhis is not the women s fault 1t is the fault OF
society. of 1t is what is to blame for many of
our divorces. OF our marital miseries
How it be otherwsei Women have been
taught that they marryto be supported, like
not. They seek. not man. but a marriage They are
perfectly willing owing TO this same ccnury-old pres
sure, to marry "a man, not the man Inc extent 10
BY the sex appeal IN women Is aosoluteIy eA-
''AnI that is what men have demanded from
mcn-from all women, Not that she be a mental COM
mother not strong worker for the good Of the fam
ly aud the ststenonc of these 10 men demand; they
charming:
.'Nlcn lemand that women play up constantly to
their ability to do Just that.
when a man says that woman has wop bm,'
laid himself to stimulat ton. and that the wo
man has succeeded IN giving the stimulus; to Tiu
Thore, right there, lies the source of our unhappy
marriages.
the uDbappiness and the source of the marriages az
we'll How the municipal matrimonial bureau would
a few moments Meanwhile, She continued:
When marriages undertaken not on a basis
u
the best good of tho individual and society but SIMPLY
droe %o Eey restless unhapp
failures They cant be anything else
arc not real matings They are more less unhappy.
The rest basis Of 1ersts nding and truth
the marriage Illusion created by definite acts on the
part of the woman.
''our modern American marriage is the result Of
a woman power TO play game
Consequently, when these two young people whose
marriage has resulted from an artificial situation be-
Gin 20 live their lives together, get down to the Sc
rious business of life, their boat to smash, or
" More than half Of our modern marriages in Amer
the most terrible and desdlv thing in the worlI 1t is
simply the result of an artificial stimulation, the ere
Gin marriage of made love the woman cannot
have a career woman She can exist merely
marriage has been founded. on Which its success de-
peuds She give herself to functions or to
in life to remain attractive to continue to
charm her husband. She must be continually Tecre
atpg that first atmosphere Of artificial romance.
81 have heard men say that the ideal of good
fe Wa woa9 H. VINO Hept up rGst same % S9hhp
herself to the continuation Of the first appeal That
idea is simply lamentable. That sort Of marriage
'suc6 q marriage is little more than esslized pros
titutiou Yet this is what men call ideal. -
MRs AUSTIN is far from upholding the theory
1V1 that the sole purpose of marriage is the
uation of the race. She denounces the teaching OF
eucenics as captrap.' She does not believe that
women should choose their husbands simply, even
versa. And she does not even urge the moral
t er for al 5s JS OS1 m9' 9b On the
tcrnity.
II 10 rot believe that marriage exists solely TO,
rs,nroducion; sic said and think that the whole
''We have absolutely no right to summon child
int Io the the world as "a sGleD'IhG experiment Passiou rs
that people ought to marry lus to have chilircn is
SEPeorIe dou t marry to have children They marry
because they want to live together and that is
AT the same time. if people bring healthy chill
drcn into the world and bring them up 50 as to be OF
e to as nd E G a
sibe 20 bear children and keep up her old sex charm
for her husband is sufficiently strong argument
There is 6nal test Of successful marriage:
mu3ity The normal marriage increases the usefulness
both of the man ana the woman b. putting something
sympathies and nowers The marriage iu which the
7iace; that in which thcv lose in value to the
u.lni,v is a bad marriage.
As for the idea fiat marriage is sacrifice Tor
the woman that ought 10 be Knocked the hea J. IT
n marriage locsn I make woman of more worth To
tho community and 10 herself she oughtn to marry.
That settles that,
90 As FOR the in which woman turns her added
nowcrs account hat is altogether her own affair
She NAV have children. she may do outside wora.
What she locs 4 matter of Individuality. But she
must 40 something for the state.
..TIouscwork has ceased 20 he pertinent factor in
the life of the The amount of house
work that city does is inconsiderable.
% city woman whose manner of hat living enables
nar uOr nd he d.fa
Of the old.fashoncl wife ought most omphaticay to
hDd something clsa 10 10. She eau decentv spend
her lre in naync bridge running ribbons through
her undercothes Sho hasn any right just camp
on her husband 5 trail
lEvcrv big city in America s full of married