Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-22
Unequal Marriages.
From the BROOKLYN Times

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Unequal Marriages.
From the Brooklyn Times.
When a little more than four wears
ago the sentimental portion of the pub
lie learned tlt Miss Nellie Hubbard, of
Hartford, daughter of ex- Governor Hub
bard had secretly married her fathers
coachman, and on discovering the truth
some two weeks later the heart broken
parenC had formally disowned her, there
was great hue and cry. The secret
marriage of a cultivated young lady to
an illiterate and unpublished stable man
was dignitied with the title of "ro-
nance" and 'the stern parent" as the
sentimental vocabulary dubbed him,
was sharply denounced for his unfeeling
and worldly conduct. 1t was love
match, SO these people said one that
heaven smiled upon and that could not
| fail to be happy, A great deal of twad-
die OF this kind was set ahoat, and the
| noble disinterestedness of the bride, her
devotion and sterling democracy we've
hshX pased ae The The ssn va @
made in social life, aid by persons who
| did not know them the affair was looked
upon as good joke upon the family.
There were some people, however, who
| remembered the words of old Brabantio
to Othello:
| Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to sec:
| She hath decei Ied her father, and may thee.
| The i'll omened benediction of this
| father did not, so far as the action Of the
| tragedy gives us to understand, antici.
pate facts; Desdemona' life was taken
| by jealous husband, but there is no
proof extant in the play that the pas
sion was well founded. Nevertheless
the relation that began 10 deceit and
ended in crime included period of the
intensest domestic misery.
Disregarding the stories that have
been set atloat about the Connecticut
pair it is sufficient to say that after four
years OF Wedlock they are no longer man
| and wife. Mrs. Shepard took her child
and began to live apart from her hus-
band some months ago, preferring the
hospitality of an hotel to the plain home
| they formerly occupied, and then taking
| advantage of the exceedingly, liberal
| laws OF Connecticut secured a divorce
on the ground of desertion. Shepard,
| who had by a great effort risen to the
| less material business of clerk in q
boot and shoe store, relapsed into his
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| GUS livery stable keeper. But the smell
! OF the stable which in youthfully roman
tic days was incense offered to love be-
came an intolerably coarse and vulgar
stencil. He idolizes her yet, we learn,
but idiosyncracies of style which in a
lover are piquant in husband are
abominable. Crudity of speech or ex-
preston may not damage the sentiment
OF an adorer, but conjugal affection is
perishable freight, and the least jolting
at the vehicle is apt to damage it in the
opinion of fastidious consignee. How
can the world blame this foolish woman
accustomed as she was to all the refine
ment of gentlemen's home if, after
her madness yielded to the herioc treat
ment of love in cottage with Bottom
for partner, her environment became
disgusting? Sentimentalists will tell us
that she ought to have let love keep as
it made her blind Love, however, is
| seldom chronic; without respect on both
sides it is of the most evanescent char.
acter. In this case it was merely pas
/ sion which speedily wasted itself.
Poetic justice would demand that the
young woman who, to crafty herself,
caused pain and suffering to two indui-
gent parents, should have expiated her
selfishness by living reputably in the
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lberately chosen. However, society is
mercitur and gave her the means Of es-
| cape which she lost little time in accept
ing, scandal or no scandal. Mr.. Shep-
ard, her husband we are told, is in
consolable, He is as much in love as he
ever was, but his angel has gone from
his hovel back to the paradise from
which she descended. Sentimentalists
will mourn for him, forgetfll Of the fact
that he brought his woes upon himself
If she deceived her parents he was
equally guilty. He took advantage Of a
| position Of trust to secure wife socially
and intellectually his superior, and
proved himself untitled to keep the
prize he won.
In this country there is no caste, The
very suggestion of degrees of rank is
odious to properly constituted American
minds. Every man counts fo, one. and
demands recognition equally with every