The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-23
What Was Poor, Beautiful Jobyna
Rowland to Think When Husband.
Arthur Stringer Told Her That He
Adored Her, and Then Wrote That
Women Weren't Necessary to Poets
COULD Any Wife Stand For It.?

in that gorgeous gown" But that did not pre-
vent her finding among the notes. when she
placed his desk in order that afternoon, the note
Enthusiastically in his handwriting:
Woman finding herself with no resource
except to appeal to her posseSHors imagina
ton, was coerced into display Of those at
tributes which would most effectively and
permanently placate somewhat capricious
master. She acquired the dazzle habit. And
as mating became more competitive she real
lied the advantage Of ornamentation, Of add
ing fictitious value to her person by the
things with which she adorned It, Out Of this
born the parade instinct in woman"
She gasped when she discovered the title under
which he gathered this and other self-illuminat
ing remarks. 1t was "The Woman Barbarous."
What could woman believer He said this
he wrote that. and he refused to explain the
dncongruity Broodng, she decided that he could
not. The differences were irreconclab1e She
had married monster, a monster Of inconsist-
ency! Verify the Inconsistencies Of men are great
and many, while those Of small and
fewl
"The greatest thing in the world is a woman
and you the greatest of all women" her noet
spouse might rhapsodize, but Of what avail was
that when there struck her as a blow from
page surmounted by his name:
"The uneQuivocally great women Of
corded time could be inscribed sheet Of
paper no bigger than this printed page"
And there appeared neither her name nor any
hint of her In the list that followed
Man the irresponsible. Every woman loves
to hear the man Of her heart say: Angel Of
goodness, worship you" But why should Mr.
Stringer waste valuable breath IN such assertions
when in his Irish poems he finishes his
~Wimmin Folk with this:
For when gerrls love ye we'll my lad,
They're thrue to nayther law letter.
'Tis when they're most dsheartenn' bad
Yell learn to love such angels betther.'
Mr.. stringer grew quite accustomed to hearing
a halfsobbing exclamation ooh. Arthur" after
his wife had cut the leaves Of his latest book,
had dipped into his latest magazine article.
And having nothing to say, he said it. But next
day he wrote: "Who can restrain poetS Him
1T is because Jobyna persists In staying on
the stage" was the conjecture Of few friends.
when they heard Of the packing of many deter
mined trunks In the Str1nger household. But long
ago the poet withdrew his objection to his beau
tiful wife'a graoing the boards. True, he pre-
ferred his quiet pipe by the fire, six months
year on the home farm at Cedar Springs, Canada,
a permanent roof. growing family, but this is
an age Of individualism, and he recognized his
wifes righ1 to develop her individuality.
It was that pen Of his. that runaway pen, chat
always outstripped his tongue that made his
life and works trial balance sheet crisscrossed
with errors, they agree caused the parting of
the ways.
She heard him VOW love undying, eternal, and
watched him write rollicktng verse inspired by
the cartoon OF man standing beside tomb
stone of his wife, watch in impatient hand
He lauded her beauty, He told her it was
ellC ol lne Bous. ne edlo No was PROUD 10 Do
the husband Of Of the most beautiful womon
IN America But he wrote this:
'"The beautiful woman begins life wrong
II she has intellect It atrophies through mac
tion, for to succeed she has only to smile,
for time very little time, as compared
with the long stretch OF woman's life"
Who blame Mrs. Stringer IL she muttered
wretch" through her ct teeth as viciously as
did the villain In the theatre where she was
playing
He might eternal fidelity. but of what
avail when he wrote for this newspaper
Tho beautiful woman wins husband. The
ugly woman keeps him"
Mrs, Strnger had q healthy ambition for CON-
tined ufa