The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-04-03
a Fool that even Experience can
not Teach.

is eager to try second one in TIT
hope of having better luck. Th'
second incentive to marriage is very
strong, since there is yearning in
the human heart for companionshir
which nothing short of happy
marriage will satisfy, and everybody
puts secret trust in the law Of COM
pensation. 1t is this feeling which
plunges divorced women into matri-
z mony over and over again in the
wild Far West. A wife finds that
d has married black haired man adj
dicted to the flaming bowl, and,
growing Disguised with him, she
shakes off the yoke of matrimony.
The first impulse of freedom is to
search for a Good Templar with red
hair. Perhaps when she gets him
he has bad temper, and after
brief and stormy season of welded
infehcity the courts again set her
free, and she goes forth convinced
that happiness is only to be found
with moderate drinker who has
brown locks or is bald-headed. If
her first husband was poet she is
apt to imagine that literature is in
compatible with content, aud to con-
slider only men Of business eligible
for a second choice; while clergy
man or doctor is taken for her third
companion with the conviction that
in the learned professions alone a
wise, tender and affectionate hus-
band can be found-one who can
command wife's respect as well as
win her love. The woman who has
found lean man scoundrel turns
to a fat man for honesty and kindli-
ness, and she who has seen little |
man play the tyrant seeks slave in
a tall one. 1t takes years of suffer
ing to convince woman that it is
not her duty to cleave to the man to
whom she is first married; bat when
she has once learned the lesson off
disloyalty and let out from her home
In the pursuit of happiness. she puts
her ideal very hi ID and roams until
she has found spouse corresponds
ing to it. For this reason woman
who is once divorced is very likely
to be divorced two or three times,
and for this reason woman when
once divorced is not likely to be re
conciled to her husband. The case
OF Mrs. Louis C. Fenner, of Chica
go, forms curious exception to the
latter part of this rule. She was
married in 1860 in Onarga, Iroquois
county, Illinois, and lived thirteen
years with her lord and master,
David FenDer, when she procured
divorce from him on the ground of
cruel and brutal treatment. Instead
of making use of her liberty and
concluding that the world was all be-
fore her where to choose, she re-
NAMED single for q year, and the
Fenner, lonely for want
OF somebody TO beat and abuse, came
Wooing her, promising that he would
Tor The future be softer than silk,
milder than lambs wool and sweeter
than the honey of Hymettus. The
[ooIlsh woman, in spite Of the les !.
sous OF her loag experience, put faith Il
n his promises aud Remarked him t
1t Joliet, Marcel, 5, 1874. For three /.
'ears she lived with him in various 5
places, end was from time to time
alled vile names and beaten with =
'reat spirit and persistency unfit she
led to Chicago and began proceed ;
ngs Tor second divorce. IL is q i.
rave question whether The court ii
honlt grant her petition. What y
ernritS is There that she may no, !
red Fenner q thir time and thus '
make the judicial decree mere mi {
tyl Hlring thrown away one
nance for new deal offered to her II
y the Illinois judges, is it well to y y
old out another opportunity? Is it :
afe to leave at large woman who 4
ouId he deIude,l into matrimony for s
second time by a man with VIII am
be had lived for thirteen years? " y
Who fools me once" said the b
cotchman, "shame on him. Who "
'ols me twice, shame on me-" 9
hould not she who married without u :,
ne maiden's fond illusions, without "
ie widows aspiration for better ~ -
lck, without the divorced woman's a
earning for variety, he left to suffer :,
warning example for all her sex9 "
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