The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-10
Novelist and
Who Doesn' t
Mind Being
Accused e Of
Thinking
BY MARY KATHERINE WOODS.

m q vapousb the divorce cvil--a municipal match
Il making bureau
/ gj To lessen the pumber Of unhappy marriages
4 and consequent unhappy separations the com
unity must it that young meet more young
somep, that young women meet more Young men. The
|ommuaity must help along the social pleasures and
Dc courtslps OF its Young citizens, rich and poor.
So SAYS Mary Austin who has probably given the
blem Of divorce concentrated, exhaustive study
Ian bas spy other III America. She has taken
cr study from the Pacific Coast to New York and
17eais il nation wide.
. a municipal matchmaking bureau is one of the
Ing that will, Mrs. Austin declares solve prob
rm for Us. It will do away with the ''made love
Mt is she SAYS, the most terrible AMI deadly thing
n-tbc world.
II will attack The evil Of divorce by beginning at
|arrage. 1t will change entire attitude towar
nrragc And il is only by changing our national at
|fudc toward marriage Mrs Austin that we can
7appc with our national problem of divorce
Furthermore. Il municipal matchmaking bureau is
o wild dream Of far fancying. but promise Of not
10 distant u6llment The epoch making changes that
IS establishment pTcsupposcs have already begun, she
serts
A municipal bureau of matchmaking and matrl-
uony. as Mrs Austin quietly maps 1t out, is by DO
ncars Office TO which Young men apply for amIaoe
'ikes, Young madcns for prosperous husbands.
|nltc the contrary.
\ The municipal matchmaking bureau is to be simply
|commuuiiy department TO arrange for aud oversee
ea meeting places for Young people of the two sexes
TO maintain dance halls pleasure parks roof gard
us, pleasant little tea rooms-all under excellent
|speronage all bound to keep up high STANDARD OF
oeal custom and social charm.
In other words the municipal matchmaking bureau
10 offer to the bows aud girls of American clhes
elenec to meet more young people, TO widen their
qus ntance AMI strengthen their acquaintance san
"a IL is to assure TO American young people as they
preach manageable age. and while they are OF mar
aebc age real field Of choice from which, 10 quote
rs Austin : own words, they may choose thclr
'ates'
The social ceuters arc to be, Mrs Austin says, un-
"a woman s ehapcrouaec and management.
~ call these women cbaperones,' she explained
but you may lust as we'll dub them matchmskcrs or
male police Their work will offer new and excel
q profession for capable midilo-aged women.
E In urging the establishment of matchmaking bu-
Su Mrs. Austin points out several conditions, makes
Reral arguments
Nearly three. e.fourths OF modern American mar
zes, shc asserts, or less unhappy lbcy are
q rcalv ''matings' at ALL
A They are unhappy partly because young men aud
Nuep OF the present generation offered so limited
Irhoice of possible husbands and wives
| lbev are unhappy, too because women have been
centuries valued soleY for their ability TO please
%u' Mdrrl3oe Is The result OF woman power 10
drm mau. not Of the fitness of tho man AMI tue
'man TO live happily and belpfully together.
The unhappy also because generations Of mar
unT-to be supported have in urging the necessity 10
Hin "A husband, forced upon women unnatural CO.
firi"s unreal arts ard married life begins false
ISIS
M RS AUSTIN suggests for these three evils three
- luter.rclatcd remedies
tlrst, tho municipal matrimonial bureau
eecoud. the revaluation OF woman.
|. Apirl. woman S economic recognition.
All these things she adds coming. They may
me very slowly some of them. but they on the
y, lou see she points out ''t is great mistsS Se
e'hrk divorce simply as divorce. We oycrestmate
<orce
The only way TO get at divorce is by getting
y marriage
these three remedies arc largely dependent upon
2 ~ other. ard the creation of the matrimonial or
4'cnmaknG bureau viii carry with it the accomplish
- y OF or Mrs. Austin's two other aims.
3. when you consider how the tendencies OF moIorn
II nave narrowed down the choice of wives aud nus.
I'VE. II seems no wonder that many marriages arc
'ns,al and unhappy she said.
g onlor the present conditions Of city life, - she
- ou' Young men and women meet very few per
~ ~ make few friends of the opposite SEX have but a
~ creie of acquaiuiapcps The life OF the city Hat,
'oe city tenement. of tho daughter Of man With q
thousand dollars year. the business pro
ouSl women admit of but uarrowest social inter
XLee cunt Your fingers the men You know, the
F1@1ls" thcS kuo~. y on can 10 1t On your huGcrs
t,,pcre is the power Of .choicc7 Where is any pos
~ OF matrng' The girl who knows three or four