Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-11-11
UNEQUAL Marriages.

The misery resulting from unequal
marriages, often CLOSED by the name of
love-matches, Is much greater, much
wider spread, in this democratic land,
where they mostly occur, than people
are wont to believe. The misery is not
only experienced by the married couple;
it is often SO entailed upon their children,
their nearest sf kin, as to constitute the
deepest tragedy Of life. A very salient
and distressing example of the sort oc-
CURED many years ago, in Cincinnati;
and the rash man who welded such a
degree of misfortune and anguish seldom
falls to the lot even of the most afflicted
humanity.
He was, when he met the girl whom
he afterward made his wife, an insurance
manager of one of the largest companies
In the United States, and was accounted
one of the best financiers and business
men in Ohio. She was book-51nder,
rather snowy, though coarse-looking, by
no means handsome, and so far from pru-
dent that her good name had suffered.
She was so Haunting in manner, 80 in
discreet in behavior, as to be in sense
notorious. After becoming acquainted
with her, he, as the phrase is, tell despe
rately in love with her. Altogether out
OF his station, even if she had been con-
ventional aud circumspect, she no doubt
understood the value of her new &C qui-
sition and resolved to make the most of
him, the most being of course, to turn
him into husband. Managing very
adroitly to that end, his relatives and
friends were HORNED in few weeks to
learn that he had actually made her his
wife. 1t was wholly unlike him, for his
connections were eminently respectable,
his habits of the best, his antecedents
unexceptionable. To all remonstrances
he answered, 81 love her; that Is enough.
She is a pure, good woman, and has
been foully slandered. You shall see that
she will justify my selection"
He then had salary of $4,000 a year
from the company, and made SO much
money on his own account that he was
soon a millionaire. His wife did net
change. Her new and luxurious sur
roundings only rendered her vulgarities
more conspicuous. She was never quite
accepted socially by his set; but he with
a strange faulty, worshipped her, trusted
her absolutely, would not hear a syllable
against her. He was the incarnation Of
marital chivalry. Time went on; they
had children, boy and a girl, who
grew to maturity. Every effort was
taken by their father to educate and real
them suitably. The boy was clever and
promising; the girl was handsome anC
interesting. But the faint of the materna
blood was ineradicable. The young
man became very d1ssipated, "a sot, indeed
committed forgery in Chicago; was ar
rested, thrown into prison, and commit
ted suicide. The girl after being belle
and having been engaged to several ex
cellent men, deliberately took to vicious
courses, drank to excess and became
shameless waHton. Her associations
were with the lowest and vilest, and re
Gently she was picked up in the slums }
st. Louis q perfectly disgusting creature
and consigned to mad house. Sh'
had often tried in vain TO take her owl
life, which, happily, must now be nea,
its close. The father lost his wealth
discovered his w1ie's infdelity, put he.
away, and she went at once to the bad
She sank into woman of the town il
Chicago and died there miserably, thu
unfortunates of her own class defrayins
the expenses of her funeral. The poo
father is now in that city, depending OF
small salary, gray haired, prematurel!
old, heart-broken, an object of pro
foundest pity, and all througha mlsalli
ance. ,
Was ever tragedy more complete
Webster, Marlowe, Ford, Massinger, hav
nothing in their dramatic essays to ex
coed this awful accumulation of sin
agony and horror.