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

several months of the women campaign. she never
to heIn the women Of her home state ' '' ~
s ssd w DO much @ tor sh to OF OF
woman in the scheme of things more upon the basis Of
her intrinsic worth,
when woman becomes actively social factor she
will be able to place her marriage different basis
she will beciu to look for man and not simply a
''Tbe economic recognition of women will help,
too, When a woman is entirely free from the hint OF
necessity to marry for support she will become more
natural She Won t feel called upon TO play the
game
'fCoauetrv is not natural TO woman.
1T has been forced upon her by men.
''When a woman feels that she must marry. AMI
that she can marry only BY ezertng sex appeal, an
attraction on some man she naturally docs all she
to forward that socalled charm.
port, show ber that society values her woman and
will drop her eoa9etry her artifeiaty, She will be,
come more natural more simple, more honest 1t will
.'Every woman should be. taught in her early rrI.
hood to become self-supDorting so that she neein t
II think too. Mrs. Austin continued that wo
men NAV do great deal in teaching men to love dc
can Do that now now Tbcy yea can love Sc nobility
''Men only love attractiveness.
ga mau S love can be dissipated by the thickness
of an ankle or the unbccomn gness of hat Ami
bs sta 1 1s nTon6 Of this Fsssn
There. were two distinct classes of women; They
wives rear GOOD children help best in the service Of
society and the state And there the women whose
sole service in life to minister to s pleasure
'tNow men marry women for the very qualities that
in the old Greek days would have put a woman dis.
tincty in the unmarriag cable class. American women
become wives Just certain Greek women became
courtessns
idesf' Mrs Austin asked. DO YOU think that
the average man needs two women in his lifc?'
She shook her head in unmixed negative 'As,
suredlv not. - she declared - But do uecd so 10
revalue women to rearrange society, that men
meet and love the who make them the best
wives, and vice We need most emphntirally to
get aray from the p>srragc of made love, tho
rage OF stimulus.
And make beginning best bv seeing il
that and women offered a wider choice for
matrimonv choice wide that love will be natural.
and not made and that marriage will be legal
lied prostitution. but real mating. Love has be
forced when woman has to marry of half a dozen
she should know scores be well acquainted with
them know their minds. their tastes their PERSONAL
ties So it should be with
50 This Is where the matrimonial bureau
As marriage ought TO result in good for thc
ity the community should take active interest
In marriage aud in courtship Men and ought
o mate under the community S auspices
This bureau woull not be sort Of = matrimon
al registry office. But IL would organize pleasure
parks, dance balls, all that sort Of tbngthe
thing that makes social diversion anil sane whole.
some, natural mountaineering between young
aud
"A bccinDng has already been made in the mun
cipal dance halls Of Chicago and the pleasure pier
,lauccs of New York. This work should be continued
always under the guide of capable, sensible women.
The municipality owes this TO its youth,
- The community should hold itself responsible for
every vouuc aud Young woman meeting the larg-
rossiblc number Of likely mates.
- This would give happier marriages. and
thus lessen divorce. | cannot repeat too strongly my
conviction that get at divorce only through
getting at marriage.