Life — July 27, 1911 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- 139 - Europe Waits for Ballingford Our Special Correspondent Visits Reno With Joe Smith, and While There is Hurriedly Sent for by Taft—Things Look Dark Until Morgan Comes to the Rescue With a Pro- gramme for Running Country—Every Cloud Has Silver Lining BY J. BOUNDEK BALLINGYORD, SPECIAL CORKESPONDENT FOR LIFE sO, July use; I cannot leave this country yet William of Germany has been cabling me vigorously for the past week. My friend, Nicholas of Russia, is getting nervous. “ Your judgment,” he writes, “ is absolutely neces: 1 am surrounded by enemies and my course is not at all clear; besides, there are some matters of etiquette to be settled.” Portugal also is in a bad way and needs my assistance. The only person I really feel casy ut on the other side is King George. He's in good h I haven't the slightest idea that George will be led astray don't meddle in affairs of Government which do not concern you, cat moderately, go to bed at a reasonable hour,” 1 told him, “and mind your wife, you w “I'll have to,” he replied mou : by way, when you get back, send me a cat ar Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau. It may be worth while my looking into.” Yes, George is in good hands. No danger there At the same time I should have gone abroad last week if it hadn't been for Taft. He urged me to stay. “It won't do for both you and Morgan to be away,” he s: In the meantime, I have taken a run out to this place to look up the divorce question The conditions are worse here than I thou The almost as bad as they are at Newport Joe F. Smith of Salt Lake, the head of the Mormons, is here with me. I sent for him when [ arrived, as 1 thought his experience would be a valuable help It was Yesterday we went through the divorce district. The leases here all run for six months; that’s the length of time you have to stay, If you stay any longer than this you'll never marry an affinity in the wide world; it shows that you are too much wedd home Joe has the right idea “Talk about your boasted civilization,” he said, as we watched the temporary wife of a Wall Street broker feeding the chickens in her six months’ home, while her eldest child sat on the front piazza writin to papa to hurry procecdings, “now, we don’t things in this outrageous manner where I live ONE OF THE LITTLE THINGS WHICH PARENTS sir! When a man gets uneasy with us and he wants SOMETIMES OVERLOOK a little ch . he just goes out and gets mar ried again, His first wife hasn't had time to get tired of Too Bad It Should Be So him; it's this seeing too much of each other th: " t tyscas agains! arried life in this country U HE woman suffrage movement is largely an agitation of gainst_ married ) women who have missed their job. It is the misfor- tune of it that it cannot succeed without very considerable disturbance to the women (a huge majority) who have not missed their job and prefer not to add to it the burden of direct political responsibilities. whenever we do happen to meet a wife, we are to sce each other that we have no time to quarrel.” Next day was bargain day in Salt Lake and he had to hurry back. During the night I broke into a few houses and terviewed the inhabitamts just to get a couple of Sunday stories, When they learned who I was they were all glad to see me. Nothing pleases people who are getting divorces more than to have their names in the newspapers. Some of MAN repents only of that which has ceased to give him them wanted me to take the children and insure their being pleasu moral citizens by becoming newspaper men, but I explained comicbooks.com