The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-13
Saturday, May 13, 'S2.
EDITORIAL PARAGKPH5.

THE Marlin Ball in remarking upon its con-
pressional district, the 10th says: "The dis
trict has 5000 democratic majority and we are
satisfied with it." So it seems, it takes
clean 5000 democratic majority to paclty
gerrymandering democrat
Mr.. A. ZADRK, in letter to the Fl. Worth
Republican, dresses down in proper style
correspondent to that paper signing himself
"a. J. NJ" Mr. Zadek says; "Why don't
your Colorado" and especially your ga. J.
NJ" defeat Governor Davis at our state con-
ventions? Does he mean to say that any
friends of Governor Davis specially hold
Office! If they do, they are few; and the
most important ara held by his enemies
Friend Zadek, you have hit the nail on the
head. When the republican party assemblies
these self-styled champions of republicanisin
sneak into corner and beg for mercy, and
when all the quiet, patriotic men have re-
turned to their homes and their busne SIS
again, these fellows go roaring over the coun-
try against G oyernor Davis. Davis has been
too lenient in the past; he should let the Peo-
pie crush out these nuisances.
Ir is a recognized fact that medical science,
and medical conditions generally, are at their
meanest and worst Some vandalized scrib-
bier seems to be in charge Of the New York
Medical Record for the purpose OF making
this conspicuous fact more apparent. Such
yandal assails fair contributor Of the North
Am. Review, to wit, Miss Dodge who writes
under the pseudonym Of Gail Hamilton, for
having pulled some of the stuthng out OF
what is called medical science. 1t is wonder
full that we are not informed of the oftenses
time has committed against the fair person OF
the Reviews correspondent; but his assault
is meaner and worse, compromising the sex,
and taking the form of a reminder that the
female brain weighs but "A ounces. What
ever else the medical man attempts, he has not
the security which the proverb suggests as
qualifying him to throw stones at his neigh
bors. The correspondent of the n. A. Re-
view could run good many New York Med
ical Records with her forty-four ounces Of
brains, and have enough yet idle to supply the
profession with some of the science and more
of the sense it so much needs.
THE St Louis courts are wading in the
muddy waters Of legal divorce. A word bat
terry, without assault discharged at the person
of the mother in laws lamb five times in as
many years, is held not competent to secure a
victory in the cause Of divorce. The engage,
ments were at too long intervals, and the court
intimated that the ordnance was OF too light
calibre. The Judge, IN few learned words
presented to the imaginative reader compre
hensive summary of the Zig hts and shades tia
had shone and flickered through the two de,
voted lives sought in this suit to be madlJ
severed. ''There is, remarked the judge
much of the mother in-law element in thi.
suit, the evidence presenting case of young
woman who chung to her mother with all the
devotion OF girlhood, giving the second place il
her affections to her husband and children
With all the judicial histories Of ship-wreckec
ventures stranded on the beach of the cop
pered and copper-fastened. mother-in-law, VIII,
does the young man who, with his life in hi
hand, steps within the vestibule OF danger
continue to face down human nature hand il
hand with the impossible? Why, when h
comes to the marrying point in life, don't h
ransack the orphan asyIums where the mother
in-law is unknown and never expected, an,
make arrangements for a future that will b
likely to pull in his years 10 the last link G
the chain OF lie without having hun strangle
in the muddy waters of legal divorce.