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

majority Of these grown men under the spell
OF the Vampire are not vicious. Many are ear
nest, sincere men Of gentle breeding OF eau,
cation and fine sensibilities. Yet they're babies
IN the hands of designing woman.
Now here's my theory take it for what It's
worth. 1t cost 5000 900.
Men dealing with men have certain nXed
standards OF value. They know about what q
thing is worth and they can't rule be made
to pay exorbitant prices. But among US there
is such fixed standard OF value where a
young woman is concerned.
Not only have we fixed standards. but
we have been taught for generations that 1t Is
indecate 70 think Of any. When a gets
married what does he swear: with all my
worldly goods I thee endow!" Usually he
doesn't get stuck. because the little lady 1s
Just keen he Is for putting away for the
rainy day and does 1t lot better But right
there get the lack OF standards and the
disproportion In the transaction.
The consequence Is that bred in US for genera
tions is the idea that there is no fixed value
Of affection. sympathy. conJugality, connubiality
love, Some Of may say, mo woman fs
worth this or that" but what we mean is that
that particular woman isn't worth 1t to us.
What happens? The minute meet WON.
an who really fascnates want her badly.
Our reasoning self is drugged, pleasantly asleep
under the opium draught Of our emotions. The
sub-conscious self is the only thing looking
after us, and the sub-conscious self hasn't any
standards to fall back
All right. Now II you have followed me this
far, il becomes obvious TO you that woman
who has the peculiar faculty of keeping
in this state Of high emotionalism, who
keep on making him think that there is nothing
Of value in the world except herself. keep
reasoning centres in allegiance far she ia
concerned and only keep alive the blind sub
consciousness with its urgings-that then at once
have the explanation OF why such a woman
can strip that man and wreck his life Admit
that there women with this power and right
away we why men who keen and
strong in every other thing OF life men with
wives and families. regulations and futures, VIII
be wax in the hands OF such women and give up
everything to them.
At last the has nothing left. The human
vampire has sucked him dry. When that hap
pens she Is off to the next victim to repeat the
performance
Sometimes her fascination falls before all "a
lost. Then he Is lucky. Sometimes the man re-
covers and look at things more normally
and more coolly than he ever could, That was
my case.
Now here few good ideas to remember:
II you have an income OF less than $4,000 A
year and your wife wants you to spend
than one-ffth of 1t on her alone, reason with
her. II she still insists leave her II you think
you love her too much to leave her have a
guardian appointed for you who Will have full
charge of your money. Then she'll either come
to her senses or. II she Is the vampire type
she'll leave you. In either case you win
IL you feel when you with any woman
that you lose all sense Of proportion. get togeth
er with yourself when you away from her
and cut off the telephone the mail and 60 home
by the streets that are furthest away from her
Remember that after all there are lot more
things In life than love a woman. There ara
truth, clean reason. friends responsibilities and
the Joy OF effective work-and then some
Remember II you married. that you bays
no business to tag around the skirts of any
other woman and that the kind of woman that
will let you Is the kind that will throw YOU mn
on the beach stripped the minute she's through
with you.
world worth keeping and If you do that you
can keep everything else.