Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-09-01
THE GAZETTE
CEDAR FALLS. SEPT. l, 1871.
How Mary Morrison Came to Leave
s5sA& her Husband.
IN rouR CHAPTERS. cHAPrxs I.

Visit aunt Kate. She lives on tn
Hudson while aunt Mary resides II
!St. Louis. am named for then
both. and everybody calls ha
do you think :--Ritiemaree Tha
Is what they have made out OF Mar.
Katherine. 20 3 - y s-vrF
It poured and poured. Aunt Kat
and / sat together with our work
and 1t was she that was speaking.
had been telling her of divorce il
Brookbrawl 4kA1 al
"Well. marriage is a wonderful tie
Try to tighten 1t aud 1t will loosen
try to loosen II and Us likely as not i
will draw all the tighter. Go to tb,
ends of the earth and you cannot ge
lid Of It. How people ever feel di
vorced Is more than / can imagine. :
II fifty courts were to divorce me 1
would make no diffesence.s shout,
always In spite of them think that
had claim on my husband, and h,
on me-" t@ az ~ -
"And yet aunt Kate, how common
divorces are becoming"
II II know IT, and what humbug,
they are! If you could only divorc,
people back into what they were be,
fore they were married--if a court
for instance, could give them thefl
aspirations and their illusions, aiit
their faith in life, and set them bach
to begin again hopeful and happy, 4
would be ianother thing. But thi,
divorcing and this separating mon.
sense! don't talk to me ! You see
know, / tried IL once.n
why, aunt Kate I did not know
that you were ever divorced" @
mo more was L. But once came
near bringing about a separation be.
tween your Aunt Mary and Uncle
John.n s...a#r VI .i.E&.'ta YAE1
"Why, what In the world did lUn.
Gle John ever do! Do tell me about
It,. Come, Aunt Kate, do.n z
"Well, when your Aunt Mary and
l left school, admirers came around
us, of course. Among them wat
your Uncle John. He was winnine
pleasant, genial fellow, with this
popularity, that he always would
have his own way. I was the ruling
spirit at home. Mary always yielded
to me; but John never did unless he
chose. He was perfectly pleasant
about it-never opposed n,e-bu,
somehow always felt that hesbafnsd
me know not how. So l named
him ObstinatAs Astius, and held a lit.
tle private grudge against him. And,
although i had no reason for not ap
proving the match, for he was no
BILE fellow andnoione could help ilik,
ing him, would have prevented II
II, I could. But John was quietly
resolute, and so your Aunt Mary
married him, I acting as first brides,
maid.
John was young lawyer with the
world before him. Your Aunt Mary
was TO accompany him Out West al
we then considered 1t, to bury her.
self alive. l loved Mary dearly. She
was my only sister--two years young.
er than myself-as gay as bird and
as fair and gentle as a May morn.
ing.
Don't let her get all yellow with
ague, john / said between laughing
and crying, the morRing bid them
good bye, 'and don't added earn
estly, be such an Obstinatus Miti,4s as
to keep her away from us more than
year Mt time. Come now, proms
ise me.u
John did not promise, however,
He had plans In his head which he
confided to no one, not even to Mary.
He was determined to be a rising
man out West, and whether ris~
ing man could be running back to
Brookbrawl every year was rather
doubtful, SO he only said: kate
you rppstconae out West and see u.s.
And l said I would, and I did.
In about year, mother went out
and your cousin John was born. =
Mother came back full Of praise of
John, and Mary and the baby. John
was 90 attentive to business, and
Mary was such a good housekeeper,
and the baby-there never was such
q baby as John number two and so
l pictured Mary's home to myself as
small bit Of Eden. Z &&A8 50 ~
I had meanwhile refused two or
three good Offers of marriage, and
was getting to be-not 80 young as I
once was-and had some ideas OF my
own on the subject or husbands.
often wondered that women 'would,
be such fools.' and declared that Il
would never do for any man. what I
saw wives around me doing az q mat.
ter of course.n Et n.
~ But isn't. Mary coming homer /
asked mother.
Not yet. John thinks she cannot
travel with 3 baby, and he cannot
srend time to come with her. ssi -
Mothers apparent approval OF this
arrangement was SO aggrayatin 81
John thfnks.' said to myself, in
dignantly, / fancy John thinks of
himself. or course he don't want 70
spare her. But that is the way with
men. Their own comfort is all they
care for. AS II the poor child would
not be rejoiced to visit her old home
once more. A II my going to her
could make up for that
For 80 1t was arranged. John had
written In reply to IN earnest request
from mo for visit from Mary. that
I must come out West, for Mary
could not leave her home at pres
ent.
I shall never forget that journey.--I
The cars stopped within forty miles
or Prafrtevills. Mary's home, and
tsiat forty miies Mad to Be made In
. stage. II took the whole day TO do
1t, for about every two hours we were
Alswe1 assws lasered over the prai-
rie. To be slowed Is TO find your
self going down into an innocent
booking mire,pit which isapparently
only she dried up bed OF q small
brook, or . bit Of meadow, but which
sucks In horses, coach, passengers
and oil, % into aquick-sand of bot
tomless mud, The passengers alight|
the driver detaches the horses and
by the most tremendous blows and
oaths obliges them 10 extricate them