The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-22
WHY PEOPLE GO ABROAD.
Europe a Resort for american with Dam
aged Regulations, or Refuge from
nOmesttc Misery.

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Domestic Misery.
Dresden Letter in Springfield Republican.
1t is said that large share of those who
come abroad ostensibly for the education Of
their children, or for the restoration of their
shattered healths and disorganized constitu-
tons, and who by long absence from their ma
tive land virtually give up their birthrights for
foreign homes, have histories that will not
bear probing Or inquiring into. Many quar-
rel between husband and wife l., America re-
suits not in divorce, but in living apart-usually
it is the wife who packs her trunks and
crosses the Atlantic for few years, and per-
haps for life Here she begins life anew. she
avoids the publicity and disgrace of divorce,
and the scandal which its trial is sure to div
ulge; she puts an end to the cat-and-dog life
see has lived with her husband, and in her
foreign home, wherever it may be, she forms
new setof acquaintance among those who
are strangers to her past history. heard of
five ladies who recently at an afternoon tea
drinking had confidential seance over their
cups, and under the Stimulating influence of
hyson or bohea un-bosom their troubles to
each other. They had all come abroad for an
indefinite stay, leaving their husbands behind
them. One of them said that her husband
has suffered an unjust persecution, and was
undergoing cruel imprisonment tor few
years for using some bank funds which he in
tended to have returned, but he found he
couldn't. The husband of another had prov
ed himself untrue to his marriage vows by TAX
ing to himself an extra wife-yes, two or three
of them, report said-without going through
the ceremony of marriage. AS for her living
on the same continent with him after that it
was out of the question. The third lady said
that her husband, who was very wealthy, had
got addicted to drinking, and had gradually
become very incorporate, that while under the
influence of liquor, which was nearly all the
time, he had abused her and treated her like
dog; that she would endure such treatment no
longer, and, being afraid of her life, she had
put the ocean between them. The fourth lady
said she was the wife of one of the best huS-
bands in the world, who from small begin
nings had accumulated large fortune. They
had lived in best style and splender, and had
been very happy together, but in an evil hour
her husband had been drawn into speculations
which had proved ruinous and swept away
every dollar in the world. She was then over
looked and cast aside bythose who had enjoyed
her hospitality and protested so much love and
friendship for her in her prosperity. She
could endure anything but such treatment and
neglect, and rather than suffer it longer she
had left her country without regret. An aunt
had left her sum of money sufficient to live
comfortably and economically abroad while her
husband was barely supporting himself and
young son at home on small salary as clerk
in Wholesale house. The fifth, who had lis
tened with much amazement to the foregoing
disclosures, said with much telling and END
phasis that although she had LETT her husband
in America, she thanked God that she had left
him in the church-yard, sleeping his fast sleep.
and that she had perfectly happy married
life to look back upon. No family quarrels or
domestic in felicities had seen her across the At
lantic but she was here to realize dream of
her childhood in visiting The wonderful pic
ture galleries, churches, pa',ces, ETC., with
which Europe abounds.