| Show w t t ' 3 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE S UNDAY MORNING MAY 15 1932 HAPPY LAND FANNIE HURST men tollers— feel for this land of m great wealth and no great poverty what Is probably their prime and deepest amo- Sweden—Whose People Adhere to the Old-Fashion- tion The Swedish home as you behold it in urban and rural evidence ia a delight to the eye the nostril the heart Simple clean and even In tha finer mansions of the few large cities "gemutlich" In the best sense of that excellent word Swedish tables even those of tha smallest farmers or lumbermen groan with their burden of the good strong foods that have gone to make the good strong sinews of these northerly peoplt The Swedish host drinks to your health with his heart In his eyes and his cleanliness his godliness his hospi- -' tality his good clean wisdoms sra youn to command He Is not much interested in worldly goods beyond the point of plain whola-som- e foods the cup that cheers (conservatively) health and education for his children good rotation for hla crops fair profit in his business and fair play in his daily life Swedish women in tha main know nothing of the modern role of the sophisticated women as tha dotheshorsa for advertising the business success of her make ed Funda- fl mentals -- - w lRVf' 4 There today In thl climax of universal strife unease crisis and appalling maladjustment one small country which should give pause to the vast scene of our j A struggling competitive world Not but what this little country has within Itself Its own problems social economic political and spiritual for the kingdom of northern Europe known as Sweden has had Its own stormy history of religious boundary and eivll wars the limited monarchy which exists there today scarcely JO years old is the outcome of centuries of conflict and struggle and war Be that as it may the fact remains that the temperament of this northern people who occupy the eastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula seems finally to have asserted Itself in terms of a definite placidity that makes their oountry one of tha peaceful interludes hi the rather terrible of 'Vi f i ? - ’ A r :l Ci 4k f A AVH C 'iviS'cST A' ' f The Swedish woman beautiful after a unartificial high bosomed fashion is running the race for excellence in her home in the rearing of bar children She knows little of the competitions of ermines jewels and tha social marts Even with the big power modernity which has Invaded Swedish life mechanized it with gadgets refined it reduced its rigors and enhanced Its beauties the Swedish wife and mother remains a curious dual personality of lntellectal emancipation and consecration to the homely virtues that characterized her forbear windblown j YW j km rvy y I' ct N C world unrest r 'I !? t !'-- s 1 Sweden today— neither sufficiently large nor powerful to rate among the g big powers out of the competitive so far as greed for military or naval supremacy goes nppcompetltlve socialistic in mood and a happy compromise In govemment—ls a country with her fingernails out of her palms Progressive animated by intellectual aurlosity imitative axcept where her own personality Is in danger of Invasion physically aloof temperamentally exquisitely endowed with physical beauty and the gift of almost perfect climate her is a small country that In tha midst of turmoil competition world travail seems to have acquired the strange wisdom of knowing how to live Unvoluptuous to a degree that makes the Swedish people seem imbued with a cool kind of clean Innocence content with small pattern life endowed with the gift of cleanliness which they place akin their godliness here is a small man teem to approach hapland run-sun- sophistication'' and the mad Jazz whirl of existence which has gripped the i World has no part in the placid life of the citizens of this little northern country writes Miss Hurst in her article today Pro- taking care of its own problems Sweden seems to have acquired the strange gressive capable of piness Swedish greatness wisdom of knowing how to live and there Is grandeur to the history and achievement of Sweden has never carried tha people to a insane peak of hysteria Tha look of tha country k tha look a land whera eool headed men and women build solidly In Sweden keep-to-g iQi with tha Joneses is minimized Competitive life creeps in the great astringent to the Is the fact that owing to of circumstances not to ti of coursa but air of Sweden a multiplicity be developed neither vast property nor vast wealth except In outstanding and almost ' Isolated cases exists to tear the human poles apart the competitive system exist closely hand in hand heart to heart with the and brighter in Sweden than In most civilized places of the earth The people kept unnervous by the minimizing of And what a land! Fjords lakes moun- tains valleys streams 'archipelagoes islands seasl All jeweled all sparkling with the clean scrubbed air of Swedish summers and the sparkling spotless snow draped winters Small wonder these rather unvolatile people — hard-ber- e ened to wind toughened to forest bllz- zard and northerly seas farmers sea Swedish men advanced in business methods alert in agrarian problems thewed men with receptive husky brains and enormous bodily strength remain part of the same conservatism They are not driven by so great a number of artificial standards as those who live in more complex worlds Keeping up with the Joneses has not hardened their arteries or accelerated their blood pressure The Swede In his home in his dally life with his children with his wife In his business on his farm is for the most part a man who has miraculously kept his contacts with nature adhered to the philosophy of life which has created his national characteristics and who has steadfastly refused to drop his bit of meat for what he sees reflected in the water Sweden no more than the rest of us is free of besetting difficulties and trials but the strange wisdom of simple sane clean and beautiful living seems to have found its roots In this small and erly land People seem happier In Sweden (Copyright 1933 King cate Features Syndi- IncJ i KATHLEEN NORRIS Joy Found in Tasks American Wives See as Drudgery 'Frenchwomen" said a particularly attractive specimen of ths race and sex to me one day when I was somewhat ?$£doubtfully discuss-nher approaching to an marriage g Amsrlcan man “make good wives have any anxiety about me X will love my husband and make him hap-i— that’s my Job" Thinking over the Don’t remark remember-nauch French wives as I have teen and known and Norris hig a recent visit to Franca as an opportunity to confirm my impression that Impression was that she spoke the truth Perhaps one reason why we have so much marital unhappiness in America and ao much divorce Is Just because American women aren’t trained to make good wives and in many cases actually don’t know how to be good wives They think men want one sort of woman and the little Frenchwoman knows that hey g want another Certainly most women American WANT to please their men And certainly it is obvious that in many cases they don’t Men like comfort good food kindness warmth companionship in their homes A man likes thrift to the extent of not feeling that the woman he loves Is anxious or humiliated by money need and he likes to think her contented No balm at the end of a hard business day is (suite so sweet to a m in as to find a con ented unman at home J ist hmv it ! urn total of ufftiuon fool warmth comfort and welcome is achieved few nun care Simple animal that he is John will contentedly live In one room if Mary says that Is what they must do He never wants to get her a servant while the la busy and well and capable and happy without one He Is to Impress ths neighbors and not Ujng aQ his friends know Just about how much money ha has A good dinner a kiss from Mary and his bed—these are his needs I think in ell my knowledge of marriage and Its successes and its failures I never heard of a man who wanted to move from a small house to a big one progress from the condition to the employment of one or more servants — UNTIL the woman of ths family was unhappy about her humble state Frenchwomen don’t feel that way What the neighbors art thinking what tha other women of tha neighborhood art doing concerns ths French wife not t alL She Is the partner of a hardworking man whose home she must make comfortable ychose child she must raise whose money the must Jealously guard To fret him with unsatisfied desires for clothes or a club or a maid or more liberty to complain that she cannot do it all that she must have change and help would seem slacking to her Ha works hard and doesn’t get overpraised for It and so does she she has married him and she sticks to her end of the bargain Tha result Is admirable There Is no spectacle in the world as wonderful as the sight of true married love with Its complement and setting of home and borne table simple hospitalities simple holidays Joy In garden end children And the humbler homes of France present the picture of thousands of such men and women happy busy united Independent They enjoy each hour each bowl of good potage and cut of sour delicious bread each night of restful sleep each day of labor ea It comes along They live Too many of our own women really never live as wives They are flattered end spoiled perfumed and dressed for the part he adores her end she accepts the adoration They drift on to the first little apartment the lmfficient maid the Idle hours of restlessness and uselessness And many of them far from solving the problems of the man of the house never have even the vaguest Idee what thote piubkms are It Is the fashion in A mert a for a man not to discus his bu Iness with his wife a condition that a Frenchwoman would consider nothing short of an Insult The completely Idle Ignorant wife naturally looks abroad fur amusement she lives for beauty parlors bridge luncheons movies matinees and eventuAll these need clothe ally conquests and taxis and powders and perfumes n and flowers and the result Is bills and quarrels snd eventually Reno Such a wife never calclates her expenses by her husband’s Income She estimates what her friends spend and tells her husband that he Is lucky if shs spends less Marriage cannot exist on this basis and as a matter of fact a large proportion of our marriages don’t survive It The American woman reads about sex and dreams about sex shs hunts down Happy French Women married love—and It Is a wonderful love Its dignified and beautiful way between them Ofle of the real sights of Paris which stages so many cheap and shoddy sights for the benefit of the American visitor is the occasional view of a French family of the plainer type having a Sunday dinner downtown in one of the brasseries A son and his wife and a young daughter will perhaps complete the party and of them all It Is usually the — continues produce its counterfeit for happiness One such fine woman perhaps 42 or 44 1 saw recently m a restaurant This one had two sons as like their father as little elephants are like big elephants ' and a son’s wife to make her middle age interesting and interested she was She was consulted before they would order their meal and she led the talk they watched her bright sensible face and smiled at her Finally the young persons went away Belle mere tightening her people make good wives I bebeve her And at the same time I know that good wives make happy wives Where many of our women are Idle restless dissatisfied vague nervous they go on staunchly into years of increasing content and usefulness and companionship That companionship Is as rare a thing as passionate love perhaps It Is rarer not many women achieve it It makes any life thrilling does companionship And no life without it Is worth living Love In marriage is the deeper for having congeniality and confidence as a background We take much from France for which I have small admiration Her perfumes hats fashions fans plays leave me cold Her standards where the raising and educating of children are concerned are medieval To lose all interest In Frenchwomen as mothers forevermore It Is enough for the average American mother to know that many Frenchwomen farm out their babies for the first delicious years But when It comes to marriage w have to concede that these women who love their men who make real homes who save and serve who give their personal caie to son or daughter who art content are the women who have solved once and for all in the only right end happy way the problems of divorce and alimony of separate maintenance and financial independences The cure for them all Is true marriage on a true basis of common sense common interests common labor and love simply shared for richer or for poorer for better or worse (Copyright The above reproduction of Rebekatis Charity by Alexander Cabanel recalls to mind the wife of Isaac ubo uas selected by Abraham to be his daughter in law because she was exactly the tybe of woman Kathleen Norris writes about on this page —the wife who serves her husband in all things As the bible puts it "And she hastened and emptied her pitcher into the well" -- books about It goes to movies that glorify it X know many women and so do you who do this sort of thing for years Not so the Frenchwoman Her man lovea her w liolesomely She keep him happy with good cooking and good housekeeping and comfortable with her sensible practical cooperation Between them there ere non of the humiliating quarrel that dl nipt so many of our marriages quarrels about money about waste about bad cooking about keeping Up with the Joneses They think alike n iy and act in harmony ami u i older wife who seems to be enjoying herself most Her pride In her man her boy and her girl her relish for the meal ahe didn t have lo cook herself her cupa ble worn hands at rest her bright eager eyes taking in every detail of the place and the company to gt e tills Is like seeing a play or reading a new Dhkan or Balzac a holiday of course this downIt town dinner In her best clothes and she Ins earned It and they all know It and are proud and affectionate and happy together Simple as it all h Reno cannot well-don- e 1 I -- Adcle’s scarf with motherly fingers when she was kissed goodbye and then the old couple sat on together In peifect peace and list alter the hard week Af er lie had paid Ihp hill a perfoitn-am- t she watched with a whry eye the old husband put his hand over hers and as a wife may do In Paris She tightened her fingers on his and rested coufort-abl- y against his houlder And o they at content and fed and happy satisfied with the pav not troubled about the future lining e uh other So when a Frenchwoman tcdls me that Bell Syndicate 1932 Inc) ‘Too Much Civilization Held Bad for Teeth MINNEAPOLIS (A) — The biting truth about teeth Is “too much civilization” says Dr Peter J Brek-hu- s chairman of the diagnosis division of ihe University of Minnesota’ college of dentistry who has made up a record of the fat of the teeth of 10000 persons Teeth Uxliyhe savs don’t get the right kind of um which he says accounts for pjorrheu w hv moat men lose half their ivories Mfore 60 and wh the average woman loses half heia teeth at 40 In the distant past says Dr Brek-hu- s men and women used their teeth for defensive puiposrs and to pre-ple food for their stomachs Uiue a stienglhenlng their molar |
