The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-02-01
WHY HUSBAND TIRES
PIayIess Youth Makes Restless
Married Man.
Mrs. Mary Austin, Playwright and
A~uthoress, ExpIaIns Unhappy Mar.
rIaoes-6oys Assume Burden
Of Lie Too Early.

New York.-The reason why SO
many husbands forty to fifty years OF
age tire Of their wives and, in many
cases, desert them is. according to
Mrs. Mary Austin, because boys are
made to assume the burden of life
too early. Just as a young colt may
be ruined by premature breaking to
harness. so the moral fiber Of youth
may be weakened permanently by as,
Stunning too early the obligations of
maturity. she thinks.
Mrs. Austin. who wrote The Ar.
row Maker" and who is also the
author Of several novels. has been
making a study Of conditions In the
domestic relations court recently.
YOUTH" she said, should be q
period Of difference. When young PEG.
pie. girls as we'll as boys. are put to
work too early the business life
tends to destroy in them certain SEQ.
ondary 9 characteristics which are
OF utmost Importance to the race.
For instance. take sentiment and
romance In girls. In hundreds of
young girls, working under the super
vision OF men. the romantic feeling
cannot be fostered. 1t must, on the
contrary. be suppressed. perhaps vi.
tmately destroyed, for the girls own
protection. Men bring out in the girl
OF sixteen or so the characteristics
which appeal to them, their :airtiness,
p~ertness. smartness. There are 9TH
er qualities, more sentimental and po-
etic. which only women can bring
out In girls. So, If a girl Of sixteen
has to go to work 1t should be under
the direction of women.
"Boyhood has certain qualities of
enthusiasm. Of resistance to author.
1ty--a good thing, since If one genera.
ton accepted blindly the ideals of an.
other, there would be no progress.
But this enthusiasm. this eager ques.
tionfng of life. has no place in bust
ness. think society owes it to 1t.
self to preserve the vitality OF ita
young people for the benefit of the
race.
All boys and girls inherit certain
racial traits, certain hereditary
traits. which they should have a
chance to work out before they take
up the burden Of life. Everybody,
for instance. goes through u period
when he wants to live in a tent and
shoot bows and arrows.
"A state or city should, i think,
foster the development Of sentiment
between boys and girls.
Every city should have u social
center where poor buys and girls
could meet, under proper cha peron.
age. to do their counting 1t should
be unnecessary for young persons, no
matter how poor, 10 meet each other
and do their counting In the streets
III we paid more attention to pre.
serving the vitality, to to fostering
the poetic ideals Of ON boys and
girls. we would no, have nearly 30
many unhappy marriages., SO many
wife desel1ions
you must have noticed how often
the man OF forty or fifty, who has led
a strong and gOud life, zoe astray
morally. That's because he was brok.
en- to harness too early lie had NJ
time to work out his hereditary traits
Some persons may think | mea, To
encourage immortality III young peo
pie, but that is far from my idea
Then you don't mean that we
must give a boy time to SOW bis wild
eats in his hereditary. tlaits?"
Not at all His vitality maj be d.
rected In good aud proper channels
mean that boys and girls mus, have
some time to play, to write poetry, t.
scnt'mentalize We must not thrus,
tile burden of life upon them TOT
early. ii we do not want them to sinh
under Or run away FROM IT,"