The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-22
Common Sense Will
Avert Divorces
BY DOROTHY DIX.

n NE of the reasons that marriage
is so often failure is because
people bring less Intelligence TO bear
oil solving its problems than they do
TO any other question on earth. a
man gives a hundred times as much
reason and judgment TO doing the SIM
plest daily tasks by which ne makes
his living as he does to trying to
make his married HE q. success. He
uses a million times more tact and
diplomacy In getting along peacesbly
With his boss than he does TO smooth
ing down his wifes fur the right
way.
a woman uses up d thousandfold
more gray matter in trying to find
out what colors she can wear than
she does in trying TO und ers tand her
husband, and she is a billion times
more concerned about how 10 retain
her figure than she is about how TO
keep her husbands affections.
Here's a case in point. The other
day young woman came 10 me
with her tale OF woe. She isn't
thirty yet, but she married when she
was mere child, and has three beau
band is a good. honest, Woodworking
fellow, who tolls from early morn till
night 20 support his little family in
comfort. When he sets home he is
dog tired, and after he has had his
dinner he goes TO sleep,
The woman is a good wife and
good mother. so far as making a
comfortable home for the family is
concerned. She works hard, too, IN
the home, but when night comes and
EhH has hnr hal hltc ivfn he'd she
wants a change. She wants some
amusement, some Of the pleasures
and gaiet'es that she missed as a,
girl through her early marriage.
Her husband won't take her ABOUT.
He Is sound asleep, and the inevitable
other man mas put in his appearance.
Ee takes the wife 10 theaters ano
restaurants. and she's fallen IN love
she looks with disdsInful eyes down
upon her poor. hard working, dray-
horse OF a husband.
But the woman's conscience hurts
her. In the midst OF the gayestt
be back home with her babies and
she wonders what her husband will
do when he finds that she. Is gala
wanting around with another man;
but the teEnpter. tells, her that her
husband doesn't love her. or else he
would be taking her 10 places OF
amusement.
And the woman stands at the turn
Of the road. drawn one way. by sense
pleasure, ard aSkz-a ctually asks
which way she shall take! She isn't
using the common sense OF a gnat In
deciding her Fate and that OF ner
husband and children.
She is acting like . hopeless idiot.
and yet she hiss got plenty OF intelll-
gence and sound enough Judgment
about other matters. II you wou!d
show her a real. genuine clamond
tate for an instant about which one
was Of the most value and which
one TO take, yet she hesitates between
honor and shame. between Keeping
her children and losing them, between
2 man who Is pure gold and another
who is nothing but nashy pincRbeck.
No woman can live to be 50 years
old without knowing something about
life,
She knows that when a married
woman begins 10 have aft!nitles she
is playing with hre: che knows that
the woman who receives secret at
tentions from men and goes to
husband is taking the first step OF
the road TO perdition. She knows
that eooner or later her husband
will find her out and that the conse-
TINT she will be turned out OF house
and home and her children taken
away from her. and that she Is put
ting upon them the stigma Of their
mothers shame.
Also. everr woman knows that the
very men who are most ardent IN
their love-m3kins 10 a married wo-
man and who use every vile and
art to tempt her on. are the very
frat to abandon her when her huc-
band casts her aside aud they fear
that they may De called on TO marry
her or support her. More than that,
every woman knows that any man
who works early and late 10 supper;
his family, and who gives them
everything and keeps nothing for
himself. !s givins the most magnifi-
conceive.