New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-07
Miss Kate stanton on ''Whom to Marry
Advice TO Those About to be Married.

fremont Temple was thrown open last
evening for the lecture of Miss Kate Stan
ton. OF Providence. niece of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. on Whom to Marry" The subject
seemed to come home to the interests OF
great many madeuS and bacht lOTS. for there
was a large number of them present. Mr..
Roberts introduced Miss Kate Stanton. who
i a quite good-looking, >hort-haired. plain
lv-atCired woman OF less than forty years.
She commenced her lecture by speaking of
the wrong idea of the marriage relation III
vogue at the present time She said that
the Old polygamy was not much worse than
the present marital system: that both nus
band and wife We're degraded from their
high positions; and that an especially poor
spec men was the average husband nOw-a-
days. Civilization had given bat little i'm
proyemcnt, because We dld not follow the
dictates OF science. Marriage was a very
important thing. she said, because it Wa
the basis oi all legitimate birth. and the
science of the subject was of the utmost
inheritance. After sketchng What she
claimed were many of the terrible results
OF civilization. she repeated that If men and
women would only need the laws OF mature
instead Of those Of their own enactment. the
union of the sexes would then approach the
true ideal. But she said she feared that
fate would soon write ''-Ncae. -uc,e. IcIet
I bj,Grsin" on the civilization Ut the nine
ttentA century.
Miss Stanton then drew a sketch OF
blasted hopes. blightcd affections and
witAered lives, and taught the lesson that
ii was pretty hard weather nowadays,
and that bad doings" were going on. She
then called upon the slaves OF the marriage
system 20 break their chains and be free
men and women. What should be par
ticuaily reformed was, in her opinion the
maria ge relation. She hailed the inevitable
al n
the barriers which marriage put III the way
Of freedom, and expressed her thanks t.
the men that they We're not opposing women
suffrage so much as weak women were
Bar the great question OF the day, lar above
anv political ones. was whom TO marry
First OF all, she seid that lnen and women
should not marry if no children could be
produced, or if the couple We're sickly and
diseased. She said the world would he
better if there were only d few parents than
to have 50 many monsters and dtl0rmltlc5
Of children as are common nowadays.
Again she defined true marriage as union
OF the sexes in true love. and claimed that
anv other marriage was unpoctlc.
She said she had not burning WORDS OF IN
Gjslation enough to describe the thousands
Of eases where the sexes were bound by
dead loves. New how to get out OF inns BAD
mess was the next question, which she al
reunited to answer. First, women must
stand up tor their own rights. ana she vas
clad that divorce laws were growing easier
to separate couples where no love existed.
But;tS prevention it better than cure, Woman
shnuld hesitate long before she took tie
laa,, for life" Miss Stanton then referred
70 r.c loves of Antony and Cleopatra as
ano1it her itlca Of true, burning love, ana,
said she Many woman signs ana longs
for an Antony" Still rambling among the
classics. Miss Stanton euIoglzed The loves OF
pt+rarrh and Laura. aud OF Aneiald ami
uoI,i,e. which our good PGrltanic an
a,,tnr. have taught is were very III
pr,,,ar. But Miss Stanton dcplor'd
ttI tyranny OF conventional love,
Which the present age alone Wlll tolerate
.Ln o,vralcd 10 many o1 the married ladies'
IN ;,al' audience II their domestic HE WIS
Nat = barren. desert, Whereat an lhui5 hth'-
Inoi,lna matrOn started applause me i4iF
lecturer then depicted the horrors % tNe
...rrcn-cycd monster. Jralon9H' INV ,%'a,,'
,T,,, husband and wife not To cuFp one an
ntber int Give a free rein t. each "tief ;
,f',.r,.s and inclnatiOns. No man was 50
-, +L,t some woman could not cheat MN.
,,,b;lr \ ercat part OF prostitution III tnt
land was supported by married men: 80
no Irral cnactIueEts or pilIa;7 G7pl'h",'
nnu)i stop these evils: nothing "Ht p"lG
cuufding love could Keep h"N2t . "u,i
.,;fn alone for each others mutual JOYS an"
Never would the niilcnn!um ct love come -
iii woman put her affections where tmry
tnndad unte;tered by laws and customs.
~. no was sure that this jolly IIihc
,,'r soon come to bless the world MIS-
Stonfon then stated that not one W"l,ian
2,t Of fen was physically capa"Ir 10 indLI\'
W r. ia Iogrn the following rules fof men
ana Ia ,Ji" ~ wives: Marry 4 !ar9e woman.
On ssS$ h% s5a a ra %h Sssa s1"c i :'S
he'I.nnH vn,ng Girl. for she mas had The
r$ 4nI, '"a Of experience but bet Of a.,
marry marry al Cd maid. though n . snI j: M y'S,
OF acccas, c.nrciaIIv It fat man. round
H ;i+l hSSr n' bu5 don't marry ses<iFz
nsn " s aGTEor f% S or s 5.sr %o
- 1"ict"' .hnvc all, don't marry. she
E Ia "a dirnkard, a gambler, 4""ch
o" ~. stanton in closing. enlarged on AtE
Alao o, ,i, erftct freedom is the secret
Of love.
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