The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-11-26
intermediate Husbandship.
From the New York Times |

From the New York Times
The Arabs have, it is said, many peculiar
customs connected with marriage which
seems as strange to us as our connublal hab
its would seem to them. All the advantage
To be derived from social institutions and a
theological creed which simply the absolute
inferiority of woman, is, in the matrimonial
relation on the side of man, the accepted
master of the family, the approved despot
of the household. With the Arabs, and in
deed with all Moslems, divorce is of small
momentum smaller even than it has ever
been in any of the elastically legal Western
States. The MOhammedan law binds the
wife forever, unless she can prove excessive
ill-usage or gross conjugal neglect on his
part and even then she forfeits the whole or
a portion of her dowry. The husband on
the contrary, can dissolve the nuptal tie for
no reason, if he so choose. Mere within or
dislike is sufficient He need only say: 81
divorce your and return part OF her dowry,
to be materially free, fully fitted for any
number of new connubial partnerships.
Twice the husband may thus put away his
wife, and take her back again; but If he put
her away third time, he cannot receive
her legally in wedlock until she has been
married meanwhile to another man. This
man is called the intermediate husband, and
when the first man wishes BIs wife back, as
frequently happens, he is compelled to ar
range with number two for what might be
termed matrimonial qutclaim. If mum.
Der two can be bought oil or persuaded in
any manner to relinquish his consort, num-
Der one can, with the woman's consent, be
once more her proper husband.
This singular adjustment of cOnnubial
discords is supposed to belong exclusively
to Arabia and other MussuI man lands but
Judging from accounts in newspapers on the
Pacific slope, intermediate husbandship is
by no means unknown in that region.
Several cases have been reported recently
in which divorced wives, after marrying
second time, have been remarked to their
original spouses, and with much more for /
tunate results than had attended the first
experiment One of the ms tances occurred /
in the neighborhood of Carson, New, and |
is 50 like the others in the main as to
deserve recital as 4 new cOnjugal develop !
ment of what may well be styled a new
country
A native OF Southern Illinois, Jacob
Rande by name, married, nine years ago, a
good-looking, healthy, intelligent farmers
daughter. near Dongola. He was a farmer
himself honest and industrious, and they
would have lived together with as little
friction as most couples have, had it not
been for her-she says, had ii not been for
his-temper. They both seem to have been
endowed with superabundance of explo-
siye lrrltability, which, excited by the
slightest circumstance, knew no limits, and
all control. Albeit naturally
fond, a cross word from one angered the
other and produced a domestic storm of the :
most furious order. Rancofous speech would |
elicit violent acts. They never came to
blows; but they broke things so miscella- {
neously and reckessy that after a quarrel ,
they usually needed a fresh supply of E
crockery and windowglass. They had
exhausted the stock of earthens
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t would be advisable well as economical :
10 separate. She went to her father, and
ne resumed his bachelor ways, until, re-
penting of their folly, they resumed CO. L
operative housekeeping.
For a few weeks matters went smoothly q
put, having dispute one morning at break
fast, he kicked over the table. She retail i
lted by throwing a Sunday suit of His into q
the fire, and he by burning down the barn 7
and tearing a new gown, recently imported t
from Springfield, ILL.,, into shreds. The
last outrage she would not brook She, G
by children, sought tne :
shelter of the paternal roof once more; and Y
he, disposing of his property, went to the c
far West in search OF fairer fortunes After
trying divers kinds of business, he turned !
his attention to silver-mining in Nevada, Y
and prospered by it. Three years since he q
his ex-wife in Virginia City as /
the wife OF one Edgar Munroe, who had 4
lost all his means, once considerable, by
adverse speculations. Munroe was heartily :
dissatisfied with the West and anxious to :
return to Ohio, whence he had come, having '
met Mrs. Rande at an agricultural fair at a
and welded her out of hand. i
Rande called on his former fellow-fghter,
and his old affection revived, as she confess
ed hers did. She said that she did not
believe Munroe cared much for her, and
that he could be induced to relinquish her.
Rande waited on him formally, explained
the object of his mission and the nature of c
bis desires. The conclusion was that Mon Il
roe, in consideration of $4,000, cash down, "
agreed to quit the State, and in due time .
get a divorce in an Indiana court. He Z
kept his covenant, and nearly two years ago Il
Mrs. Munroe became, by process of law, .
Mrs. Rande once more Last spring she .
presented her first and last lord with twins, Il
md the parents declared to be eXcep- 4"
tionaIly harmonious, no more tempests :
sweeping across their domestic hearth, and Il
he supply of crockery diminishing only q
through ordinary mishaps Other similar Il
on the slope have resulted to the a
benefit and added contentment of all per u
IONS directly involved and intermediate q
promises to be profitable to v
.he intermediate husband, and an argument u
cry of concord between the original parties v,
Some men are possibly so con- q
stitHted that they can be more attached to- 7.
and agree better with, their wives after they II
have been the wives of other men. They n
cannot, perhaps, quite appreciate anything
until they have lost 1t ana got it back again,
and such queer fellows may be helped by
following the Mohammedan fashion in c.
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