The Alaska citizen., 1916-02-28

rom OOoN pF i>'iH'l '| ~ uued "Thrc. Things" which the author names as Truth, Common Sense and Happiness the .thr"' essentials to strive after in life Man forget, that his kind worGr of love and sympathy matter far more 10 tn. actual happiness o' the woman ;han any of his deeds because words fiji and satisfy he imagination, and kind de, d. with lew or indifferent words, make very little impression upon it
 DivorIP for the rich and educat- cd should be made as difficult as possible Diyorces for the poor should he facilitated in every way. How often in society one sees wo- men of i5 and younger with daugn- ters of IS to 20, about whose real characters ard souls they know nothing
 It is because the outlook of wo- man is as a rule so pitifully mar row and self-centered that she often makes useless and unhappy wife, and shipwrccks her own and others futures.
 It would be well for man to wake up to the fact that he is now wed ding woman with every sense and nerve and conception of life far in advance Of what his mother believed herself to be capable of.
 If man wishes to have the good domestic, obedient wife his father perhaps one should go back fal ther and say his grandfather ,-eX- pected and got, he must either choose d timid weakling who be comes just his echo, or he must learn to treat the modern woman as a comrade.
 Woman is as willing to be ruled aa she ever Waa-she always adOreS a master; b Il she has grown too intellectual to bow her head just because a man is man-he mus be THE man.
 The foolish section of woman is fighting man with bombs and trickG and frantic words instead of con
  tainments that she has grown at last fitted 10 be treated as an equal and a Comrade not as a plaything and slave.
 Who does not respect woman 8ho fulfils ali her obpligations with grace and charm, whose house is wcli ordered whose friends are well entertained by her fine mind, and whose children are well brought up? She is indeed more precious than rubies and far more full of influence for the good of her community than she who shouts of rights and wrongs and votes and suchlike
 A woman disgusts or bores a man, and then bewails her sad lot. and calls the man a brute for being indifferent, and shameful crea ture for looking elsewhere for con- solation
 No woman must ever forget in her relations to man that he who pays the piper calls the tune;" and ill this am not only speaking liter but Of the power incorporated in certain personalities.
 Man, if h" chooses to exert il. nas always force maJeure at his command in the last extremity, al though in these days of Herculean young women he may lose even this in time
 Woman owes man just as much as the thinG he married her for if for her money. and she knows II IS TOT that, ana mas been Suli- ciently humble 10 accept him on those terms-she owes him money If for love-she owes him at leasg the outside observances of love.
 No marriage can be certain oi continuing happy which has been entered into in the spirit of talk ing a lottery ticket.
 Considering the instability of all our tastes and desires and the al most total want of personal disci- pline which prevails in the present day. it is really remarkable that legal marriage goes on even as well as it does,
 There is a recognized unwritten law among most men that honor must always be kept with the other woman" but that it is not necessary with wife. He feels that he must never give away c to B." although he experiences no Qualms in having already tacitly given away" B to C.
 The greatest desire of the most