St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-25
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by marriage, and if she fail the law will en-
! ancipate her. for her habitual drunkenness
/ is a cause of divorce in Indiana, Connecti-
cut. Florida, Arkansas, California and Ken
lucky, and almost all the states. So the
Door thing goes to the altar of sacrifice
Show me where the poverty struck streets of
any city are and will show you whole lines
of houses where all the women married men
to reform them. The reformatory attempt
may be successful in one case out of ten
thousand, but have never seen one success
full experiment Rightly of divorce law will
lead a woman to say: eff am affianced to
that man it is probably forever, and if now
in the ardor of his young love and am the
prize to be won he will not give up his cups,
after he has won his prize he will surely not
give them up. No, sir you are married to
your club room and married to your evil hab-
its, and you are a bigamist already. Coz
HAsTY AND FOOLISH MARRIAGES.
Rigity of divorce law will put an estoppel
on hasty and inconsiderate marriages. I'm
der the impression that for frivolous cause
one can be released by the divorce law here
or elsewhere, the solemn relation is entered
into without reflection or inquiry. Romance
and impulse have too much sway. The
ground for the compact is that she likes his
logs and he admires the graceful way she
passes raound the ice cream at a picnic.
Men incapable Of paying their own board
| bill take the hand at the altar and say,
''With all my worldly goods / thee endow."
| Women who could not make good loaf of
bread to save their lives promise to ''cher-
ish and obey" A Christian will marry an
atheist, and that is always conjoined wretch
edness, Hearing about love in cottage,
some one brought up in ease goes down to
starvation in a howell Plenty of runaway
matches and Opponents, nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of a thousand Of which are
| death and hell! Ministers Of the gospel in
these regions having no defense as in other
regions by public banns or by margiage Ii
cense signed by State officials, are left to
blunder by marrying people that ought never
! to be married becasue they are too young or
already under solemn domestic contract.
By the wreck of 10, 900 family affairs, by the
holocaust of 1000 sacrificed men and wom-
en-, by the memory of despoiled homesteads,
by the hearthstone of the family which is the
corner stone of the State, and in the name of
that God who has set up the family institu-
ton and made the breaking of the martial
oath the most appalling Of all perjuries, i'm
plore the Congress of the United States first
and then for an all comprehensive, just and
stringent law of marriage and divorce.
ADVICE TO SINGLE PEOPLE.
And let me say to the hundreds of young
people here assembled, before you join heart
and hand in solemn pledge, use all cdution,
make all outside inquiry as to habits, explore
the disposition, question as to ancestry,
scrutinize the tastes and find out the ambi-
tons. Don't take the heroes and the hero
ines of cheap novels for your model Don't
entrust your time and eternity in the keep
ing Of man who has the reputation of being
a little loose, or woman who dresses fast.
Remember that good looks are a gift from
God, but that few wrinkles may spoil them
or an eruptive disease deface them. Lord
Byron's beauty was only equalled by his de-
pravity. Absolom,s hair was not more splen
did than his behavior was despicaple. Hear
it! Hear it! The foundation Of happy mar
rage has been and always will be good
character Ask fathers and mothers coun-
sci in this the most important step of your
life. They are more interested in your wei
fare than any being on earth, have already
made more sacrifices for you and will do
more for your happiness. Above all, ask
God.
TO THE HAPPILY MATED.
Let me say to those who are happily mated
Avoid first quarrels. Have no unexplained
correspondence with former admirers. Don't
cultivate suspicious. Don't in moment of
temper rush out and tell your neighbors
about YOUR wrongs Don't let the gad-abouts
of society unload in your house their bag
gage of CAB and tittle-tattle Don't stand
D., rio T hour fn
apologize. Don't be too stubborn or too
proud, or too devilish to ''make up" Al
most all the great matrimonial disasters
started with little infelicities. The whole
pile of ten railroad cars, telescoped and
smashed at the foot of an embahkment
hundred feet down, came to that catastrophe
by getting only two inches off the track.
The most scandalous and wide resoundiug
divorce cases have grown out of little mis-
understandings that were allowed to go on
till home and Responsibility, and religion and
immortal soul went down in the crash.
And fellow citizens as well as fellow
Christians, let US all have divine rage
against anything that would despoil the mar
riage state. Blessed intuition! Instead of
two arms to fight the battle of life-fOur! In
stead of two eyes to see the rugged path
four! Instead of two shoulders to lift the
burdens-four! Twice the energy. Twice
the courage. Twice the holy ambition.
Twice the probability of worldly success
Twice the prospect of heaven. Into that
marriage bower God fetches two souls.
Room outside for all chickering's, and all con-
troversies and all contention. Room inside
only for one guest, and that the Angel of
Love. May that angel guard the floral door
of this Edenic bower and with keen blade
cut down at the rescued doorsill its worst
enemy-easy divorce. For every paradise
Lost' may there be paradise Regained,'
and when we leave our homes on earth may
there be for us brighter home in heaven at
the windows Of which there are familiar
faces at this moment watching and waiting
to see our arrival, and wondering why so
longwe larry.
Lady Styad6roHe Sl.mbbed.
London Truth.
1t is quite a mistake to suppose that s'the
lady of titlen who is morally responsible for