The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-06

/ 't1E strange love tangeS of Mrs, Harriet
l Buck Greenfield Cook may help to, prove
the tenets of new theory by which scien-
lists solving the mystery Of unsuccessful
marriages. The theory maintains that the moth
erly wife always is unable to fulfil her duty TO
her husband. 1t attempts to show that the hus-
band who is forced into the reverential son atti-
tide is placed in false position from which only
disaster may result.
A gentlewoman, product Of breeding, educa-
tion, wealth and cultured environment, Mrs. Cook
set out upon her marital trail fifteen years ago
with man from her own walk Of life. Eric v.
Greenfield, an instructor in German at Purdue
University, is as thoroughly to the manner born
is the Boston woman who divorced him eleven
years after she had taken her VOWS to love and
honor till death interviewed
What deep-seated inhibitions prevented the
completeness of their union probably never will
be brought out Of the secret places of two hearts
for the world TO see. That they were obscurs
things, neither understood recognized mani
Testing themselves as restlessness dissatisfaction
perhaps, is indicated by the present friendliness
of the man and woman concerned.
Sentiments of deep regard expressed by
each for the other. When Mrs. Cook had need Of
help in her latest domestic difficulty, the Purdue
professor was the one to provide 1t.
So perfect appears to be the understanding
between them that they may remarry according
to rumor II the Boston court where her case Is
held under sdvisement makes final Mrs. Greenfield
Cooks second decree Of divorce.
And now that the storm and stress that blew
through the three-year union Of the loye-luckless
lady and her second husband has whrled spectac-
uarly before the eyes of Boston, it seems that
they, too, entertain a fairly tender passion for
each other with astonishingly elusive reasons for
not getting together.
Like Greenfield, Walter NJ. Spencer Cook was
fit mate for this high-bred woman. Scholar and
thinker, he had risen to position of prominence
among the instructors Of Harvard He was a
travelling fellow of the American Archaeological
Institute and the intimate Of this countrys arts
tocracy Of educators
Mrs Cooks most tangible for complaint
against him apparently was his fanatica devo-
tion to stud;s But this minor dissatisfaction,
put into tf$ place of an impasse, would figure,
s accordirT 20 psychologists, as scapegoat, the
,~ru-ly upon which dissatisfied spirit would load
its discontent, with dozens Of infinitely important
grievances concealed from the consciousness as
to elude recognition.
Humanity y-st-iarge has believed the good son is
sure TO make the good husband "Ee loves his
mother much," people say, "that he certainly
will transfer sentiments of reverence and consid-
Grafton and unselfshness to his Wife He will
make her life long peace and joy"
But the new science smiles grimly at what 1t
considers the tradition of mothers boy turning
into the perfect husband. Descending with ruth
less disregard for sentiment through the strata Of
consciousness, tearing more slowly adown the
layers of sub-consciousness, it comes to rest In
that deepest and darkest mine Of the SOUL the
unconscious.
1t sets to work there, digging among old
experiences, chopping at appalling growths Of
impressions springing out Of them Instead Of
the firm and level basis for normal conduct, 1t
may discover many a fantastic twist, sudden pits
of illogc. And among the most frequently found
of all these is the one known technically as the
"mother ixation."
This twist, it is explained, may exist in some
degree in the mind of every human from the
mere circumstances that every human has had a
mother and remembers with pleasure and long