Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-29
BRINKLEY DIVORCE CASE.
A WOman's Diary = What She
thinks of Love, Marriage, Clubs
and Literature.

A WOmau's Diary = what Sne
thinks of Love, Marriage, Clubs
and Literature.
During the progress of the famous
Brinkley divorce case before Judge
Van Brunt and jury in New York, Mr..
Brown, counsel of complainant, read
the following extracts from the diary
kept by his client, and which extracts
were offered in evidence:
In the journal of July 3, 1865, the
writer says that when they Mr.. and
Mrs. Brinkley) are in Europe she in
tends to acquire German and Italian.
As soon as Hugh (that is Mr.. Brinkley)
sells his cotton in Canton, she will again
be united to him. She bewails her lone
illness, and frequently speaks of her
deep love for her husband
Under date of August IA, 1865, she
quotes from Byron and Bacon, and
speaks of ill-assorted marriages. Well
may many repine at their condition.
Unhappy marriages are common every
where, and in all classes, but neverthe-
less the marriage relation is still con-
tinued, and is upheld and honored in all
countries. 1t is the manner OF contract
ing marriages that causes so much un-
happiness But few are based upon the
true principle of complete interchange
of feeling of true love. Some marry for
huusekeeper, and some to obtain a
home. Some marry nurse, who may
gently soothe their sick hours. Many
marry for riches, and more for social
position. Many yield to the influence OF
friends and refuse to consult their own
feelings in the interchange. All these
marriages are nearly certain to result In
calamity, unhappiness and separation.
The woman who unites herself to a man
whom she does not love, though the eer.
emony be solemnized by a thousand
priests, commits sin in the sight oi
God, and perjures herself by prom
Using to love, honor and obey man
for whom she does not feel the
slightest affection. One reason OF
this is, because young women knew Sc
little of the world as it really is. The
trash that young people read at the
present day is SO emotianal, so devoid ol
truth and filled with false and exagger
ated opinions and ideas, that they soon
begin to contract those opinions, and
look upon all things connected with love
and the married state with false, TO
mantle view. Young persons believe
that to fall in love is to be happy, and t
secure the object of their desires by mar
riage is to insure life of unailoyed hap
piness. With the adult woman it il
different. She will not suffer her affec
tions to be engaged unless she be certain
that the man is worthy of her regard
Many men 60 into ecstacies over beauti
full eyes, a well-rounded arm, fair face
a luxuriant growth of hair. Some
times they marry these charms, ant
soon find that a single pimple has de
stroyed their love. How many mel
have been won by a single grace. Sh'
continues by saying that she believes
that Hugh really loves her. He tries il
every way to make her happy, He ha
won her love, and she did not love hin
half SO well at first as she now does. |
is the duty of every woman to please he
husband. No woman can be happ.
without she makes her husband happy
She always desired to be a pleasure t
her husband. She closes that entry b,