Show 1 I Halting Tragedy I 4 0 I By fly WI WINONA O OA A WILCOX I We Ve cannot control our Instincts but we can refuse to stimulate them That teaching of the psychologists I have quoted several times for Jn In it Is the secret of at much misery and much happiness happiness happi happl ness for men and women It is the particular lesson which the writer of the following could profit by This startling letter deals openly with the circle of ot primitive human instincts I worshiped my husband when I X married him He lie could have cut me into pieces and I would not have cried out Naturally side of six r. r months I d was sl insanely we h had 3 a 1 Jealous quarrel aJ rs l and andI In Inside Inside In- In d dI I went back to my parents Immediately I was wretched I wired him He lie told me to suit myself I about returning I X loved him I went vent hack back and ever since I have been a slave He lie pretends to worship his children then he tells them they are his his and th that in inI I am only orly ir their hg r mother ef tO ro ro In eight years of o our led he has had man many a love affair and for them themI I X hate him When r object he threatens ns to 2 throw me into the street and keep i I I I I I I my babies from me He Is a bun bully but I our our friends do not know tHe He provides his his' his family family with with- every every- thing I have many luxuries Still I 1 loathe the man He lie says I X am the tho handsomest woman he ever say he likes to take tako me to public places where I can be seen and all m my women friends envy me They do pot not know that I BOrding go BO riding in my car if It he comes home early When he makes love to me I hide In a corner of the house When I lose my temper he is so pleased He likes to get me angry I x want to take my children and run nun awa away before I X do something desperate despera desper- desper a ate ate te- For pages this letter continues a weary tale of violent violent- domestic sUc In- In felicity The worst of ot nIl tragedies Th is that which binds two together when they excite in each other nothing but the primitive Instincts hate and love Jeal Jealousy jealousy jeal- jeal revenge and anger Some such cases ought to be solved bv speedy divorce But Dut when all the luxuries of life are at the command of a a. woman who never has worked s she e would do dowell well to think hard before surrendering surrendering sur sur- sur- sur rendering them to face the hardships of business in Ina a time of commercial de de- de Before Defore the ultimate step Is taj taken en it would be wise for this wife to talc take talce forty days in the wilderness In which to meditate Upon her troubles Sho She may finally prefer those she has to some she knows not of And sometimes It Js an an excellent plan pIan for a n. wife to change front completely to 10 stop the hating and arid the quarreling eung to remake her emotions What would be the Irritable hus hue husbands husband's bands band's reaction to a kindness patience sweetness and good humor Sometimes a little admiration beI bestowed be- be stowed upon a mans man's good points works like a miracle I Such Suc an experiment ought to prove Intensely interesting to the wife wite who i has baa for long used the opposite methods I |