The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-08
( Woman Observer Plan
to Apply the Methods of
hence to America S Great
lest Social Problem. and
by Creating a College of
observation in Nevada's
htorious Divorce Colony,
i Make Its Graduates
I divorce Proof,
By Leslie Curtis,
sssr Associate Editor OF she
Gazette, Author Of keno
p.r.rirn Etc.

Associ.so Editor OF she f'
4 Gazette. Author Of Keno
"A Reveries, Etc.
syERYBODY has agreed tna' VI
yorce is one OF the most Se'
= rIous problems OF modern
srica. The law has dealt WIN IT,
tetv has dealt with it. and the
rc6 is perpetualiy struggling with
Mo one has yet found any et-
i've remedy for the steady grown
marital shipwreck. l nave az
found tho remedy.
ke only real progress IN the
"a OF science has been made
"a the microscope was diseov.
S--CJoIy ip the fields OF chemis-
biology and physics has tre-
hdous progress bsen made, and
] reason is that In these fields
i microscope is available.
Hence has discovered that we
IL from observation. If we can
With the eye, We can learn.
would apply the methods OF
nee TO the scandal Of divorce.
6uid, so to speak, put under the
roscope the whole wretched,
Erabls story OF matrimonial mis-
and by seeing aud studying
"a learn the remedy.
h plan is to establish a college
bbservatiop hero at Reno, where
sad panorama of domestic mis-
and insists unfolds itself in
N possible phase and color.
Fery e1pectant bridegroom and
~ prospective bride should be
. b course in my School Of
Ned Domestic Research. / am
Mn that a six months COURSE
Iectures and daily attendance at
divorce courts Of Reno would
- my graduates divorce proof.
nder present conditions, women
~ more or less blindly, 1.-Two
Ny, and often end up i'll Reno
equivalent. with "Bachelor.ess
Afiure" written efter each name
q past full or knothoIes as a
pma. Why not reverse the us-
order and place Reno first?
plness would then be sure TO
w, based Oh definite knowl-
OF what marriage mesns-and
divorce costs.
am perfectly serious IN my
4 The utility OF it has already
u tested, because It has been
td by Interested people that the
md marriages of Reno "gradu-
jF are invariably successful.
because six months observa-
Of others has taught them TO
pse more carefully. Another
nee lies In the fact that few.
ny, divorces are secured by
!e people. Boys and girls, min.
With the human disappoiDt.
ta from the East, learn inyalu.
lessons aud enter matrlmouy
n seriousness worthy Of ma
= oelleve 10 divorce, but not the
g OF It, and two years in Reno
~ observer convinced me that
pa are to blame for the ma
OF unhappy marriages, Three
1s Of the women who go to
Ca do not deseyDe divorces, al
h they are evidently sincere
mixing themselves abused.
~ seek freedom because their
o. marriage is fundamentally
q is not true in all cases, but
my,
efybody knows good women
nave suffered agonies as the
OF drug iiends and drunkards
mo are perfectly justified In
'n8 freedom. Men vino marry
oney are also des2lcable, but
ays takes two TO make bar
and IL girls knew how to
intelligently before mar
tne drunkard. the drug hend
ortune-hunter would be over.
ea with mittens.
pandA, - my opinion, are less
INC >the prevalence or d.
tnanl leir wives. Women
G for IL number Of reasons.
Sn ly for love, because
'4i ne choice ia unlimited
Z 8 pick the one girl