The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-12-25
Chapter I.

| The one thing that worries people
more than finances is courtship, mar
rage and the relations of the two
halves of society to each other.
| People really seem to feel more
anxiety about business and finance
and making living, but one reason
why people are universally worried
or anxious is that somewhere in
their domestic affairs important
matters are unsettled or unsatisfac-
tory or they are combating i'll health
or irritations in some of their ten
thousand forms as they grow out of
blunders, seen or unseen, in domes-
tic relations, and these in turn affect
or depend on their finances.
When l said, in the Christmas
edition, that l would like to write
something on this question, and that
an editor could hardly afford to say
much on the subject, l was wonder
ing how much l could say and have
the approval of the public. I think
that twenty years ago knew about
as much of the cause of divorce and
domestic failure as most people did,
and l think that only small per-
centage of the public are well in
formed on it now. At that time l
thought that people who got
divorce had merely quarreled and
failed to make up. Temperance
drink was the cause of most of the
divorces, and 1 thought they knew
and were telling us the truth.
was led to believe that if married
people declined to quarrel and left
booze alone, there would be little II
any reason for divorce. under
stood that some couples in applying
for divorce set up the claim of in
compatibility which meant that
they just naturally irritated each
other. l wondered why they did
not find that out before the matri-
monial knot was tied, but nobody
explained it to me or gave any
theory about it, If either of them,
or both, developed bad temper that
could not be controlled in each
others presence, I thought the bad
temper had been present all the
time and through caution it had re-
NAMED hidden during courtship and |
the honeymoon.
Up to the time 1 speak Of, about
twenty years ago, nobody had ever
told me, and / had not made the
discovery by observation, that per-
son of perfectly amiable disposition
might become permanently dis
agreeable early in matrimony But
that fact has come to light, along
with many others, and where both
parties to a marriage are amiable
but both become permanently dis
agreeable early in matrimOny, and
where both of those people became
again soon after they cease
% be in each others company, l won
Ter how anyone can fail to approve
If a separation of that couple.
l used to be quite temperance
ad l don't get stewed now, but
I'M looking for the temperance lee
urers to get them to explain a few
hings. They claim there is so much
ess consumption of strong drinks
low, (and correspondingly less of
,ad temper) and if their talks of
wenty years ago were true, there
,ught not to be any divorces now,
Tor even any domestic troubles at |
III. In those days a divorce was a {
cry rare thing. Now there are 1
learly as many divorces as marri- {
.ges, and many married people do t
lot get along well, but do not get {
divorced. Judging the temperance t
ituation of the present by the /
domestic failures, there must be an
,wful volume of strong drink going S
own peoples necks now. If there '
) any relation between strong drink {
nd divorce it must be in reverse t
alto S
Did you ever go to commencement q
xercises when students and teach I
rs forgot their parts? You know a
ow the audience felt? Well, that I
, the way feel sometimes toward c
he reformers when 1 allow myself I
} analyze their activities covering c
eriod of years. In recent years
ley have been taking good many '
ew tacks, as If seeking to get away I
ON the analysis of observers. In