The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-31
By Halsey Corwin

TEN years ago was a millonaire-at any
rate. 100000 is near enough to one
Here am to-day chopping tickets at
Broadway moving picture show at $12 per and
glad to get it. A woman did It, 1t would seem
that there was lot Of experience lying around
between the starting post Of that near million
and the $12 punch. There is. Stop, look and
Gsten Halsey Corwin who a good fellow
as long as he had it. is going to put up
Look Out For Danger sign.
I'm going to use my former wife Mrs Roberta
Menges Corwin Hill. a text Not in spite.
not In anger. neither to hurt nor to shame her,
not even IN sorrow. Simply because 1t was
she who raised to my pinnacle OF wis.
dom on the ticket chopper at the exact cost OF
900 to me. I hope she takes it as tribute
That's the way she took everything else.
I'm not going to say am happier with my
s12 per than If had my 100000 That's bunk
talk. Whenever you hear anybody say anything
like that hold your hands quick to your pockets
Nobody was ever happier with a half dollar
than with whole
How do they do it2-the women, I mean. Here
the wise. strong sex; thoughtful, bal
anced. deliberate. chock full Of logic and reason
plus our goods. friends and our family.
And here Is Just a woman. And after a while
there Is only the woman. plus our goods How
does she do 1t?
Adam asked that question first can see
him sitting outside the garden in the first Col
lege Boy styles with his head his hands.
And what he's saying is: How did she do it?
Eden was mighty fine place and the apple
Then there was Samson, Can't you see Samson
feeling around those pillars at GAIA and think.
ing: "Delilah was only an average sort OF
Philistine after all And was the champion OF
the ass's jaw. How did she get my hair away?"
Cleopatra, Becky Sharp G Co. The Malevolent
Association Of Feminine Absorbers. President
Kfpling's Vampire. Directors, The Misses Sirens.
Nine Lorelei and Ciree Legal Adviser. Nine.
Venus. Founded million years ago. Capital
unlimited. Assets-themselyes.
And there you are Here's how they got
mine After I'm through I'll give you service.
able ideas / have Wrung out of 1t all Right
here let give you bit Of advice. Whenever
2ou come across sentence that says did thus
and so-go you and do the very opposite That
will be safe.
From newspaper accounts OF my former wifes
latest conquest. am too late with this object
lesson in print My former wife has sailed for
Europe, and 1t Is said that Conway Tearle late
leading actor In Louis Manns company, de-
serted his wife TO sail with her. Members OF
that company have told how she sat night after
night in the same orchestra chair, with her vaul-
pire gaze fixed upon poor Tearle; how she sent
back to hig dressing room note after note. de
maud after demand for his attentions: how the
power OF this disturbing influence broke down
the nerves OF the actor, unified him for his
work, finally obliged him to resign his part in
the play and himself to the siren
AS 1t does not appear that Tearle is man OF
much fortune. granting that the story is true.
we have not long to wait for the inevitable de-
nouement-the complete wreck OF another mans
life.
But there will be others. The power OF this
type Of woman to subdue men. to suffocate and
destroy them, increase their victims multiply
and my former wife Is still young, still beauti.
ful As her type attracts money. more than she
spend. she can treat herself to an occa.
sional 1mpecunious vicum-the thrilling inter-
mezzo that lends variety to the golden dramatic
acts of the tragic opera that is her life
I the only child of HaIsey Corwin CITY
Treasurer OF Brooklyn When my father died In