The Nome daily nugget., 1935-02-02

| II T most of his relations with his third wife, which he confesses were on the whole more agreeable than with the other four "Details as to his marriages are shadowy, as though some of them were failures, but he seems to have been married five times, and 1t Is of his third he speaks most in many references to marriage, women and the family life generality.
 Silerius had no fault to find with this third woman, although he Is very severe in reference to some others Of her sex. She seems to have had no faults he did not re- gard as natural, and therefore to be forgiven because of her many vir- | tues.
 Once Silerius discovered his third wife was jealous of him, and was astonished. "She knew at our mar riage," he wrote, "that I had lived the life of goat. Why should she be jealous? It seemed to me un- reasonable that she was, since I actually preferred her to all others in an enormous competition. Wom- en live sheltered lives; possibly there Is reason for jealousy among men, but if were woman, do not believe would be jealous of reasonably well-behaved husband. This may be unfairness: ire quently find am unfair after have striven to live as an honest man in thought and action"
 A strange woman lately wrote me c strange letter. At the age of twenty-four she held a position in which she gave satisfaction, and in which there was every prospect of promotion. In defiance of advice from friends, and of her own judg- ment, she married. The husband was palpable third rater, and she divorced him.
 Again she secured a good posi- tion; again she married a man she might have known was worthless. This time her friends were disgust ed, and she has joined the unem- ployed.
 One of the strangest things have encountered in life is the manner in which many women rush into un- suitable marriages. Everyone un- Ederstands why men are so crazy about women, but have never been able to understand why women are equally crazy about men. It seems to me that were I young, and a woman, could consider marriage with considerable patience, intelli- gence and caution.
 The red lantern signal Is usually hung on unsuitable husbands and wives, as 1t Is on dangerous bridges.
 An old German is reported as say ing: ""When our sons moved down thousands of French, and won the battle, we shouted and drank beer. When the French killed our sons, they cheered, and drank wine. When my son marched away to fight, stood In the streets of this town and cheered. A letter my son wrote just before he was killed said he had lived in France two years, and liked the French, and they liked him." In addition to the un- necessary killing and hate, the war impoverished the world. Wouldn't you think anyone could understand the moral of this in con- sidering the next war?
 The habit men have of being arti. fcial, oyer-sentimental, is very old. As far back as Roman times, Si- lerius was weary of artificial things, and wrote that they so bored him that he dreaded to go. or, the streets. In the Roman Forum,l when q young man nscd fine eloquence to make false promises, Silerius walked wearily away, and retired to his study. The last year of his life he spent in writing his memoirs, and in tine second volume (page 182) find this observation:
 "Writing men have 50 tired the people with unnatural things, I have concluded may better please by being natural and simple in writ ing my recollectlons. I may thus at least put down what one man actually thought and experienced during long life; men have be- come 50 untruthful in seeking truth that my method may, indeed, prove to be something new, and better rec ommend my work"
 This seems to have been a mis- taken opinion. Although Silerius wrote with great simplicity and frankness, Marcus Aurelius, a con temporary writing with so much la bor and obscurity that critics now say he is not understandable, is more popular. The natural use of writing would seem to be to truth fully record credits and debits, in books of history as well as in ac- count books. but somehow we have decided otherwise.
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