St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-02-25

Ischomachus touching the domestic relations
may be found instructive and be advan.
tageously studied to-day.
Deception in the sale of a horse renders
that contract void A false name or tai
palmed off as genuine would, even in these
degenerate times. stamp the professional
horse jockey AS infamous. What then shall
We say of the men or women who resort to
the shameful articles now in vogue for the
purpose, not only of deceving as to fortune
and character, but in an especial manner as
to the form or person! The following news
paper scrap will conduct the curious no
farther than the outer chamber which opens
upon the palace of art wherein defective
forms are made to appear beautiful by those
who substitute gutta percha for human flesh.
False hair, teeth, and eyes are not here
noticed.
A mother presents two daughters in quest
of an outfit
1.-The eldest disrobed to fit on the new thing.
She was tall, slender girl, with nicely rounded
waist and good bust and pretty arms, while
she stood in her talor-made suit, but when she
/ undressed ye Gods her handsome myrtle green
! cloth waist was lined with silk. 1t was padded
an inch thick Oh the back. 1t padded five
| inches thick over the breast. The upper part OF
/ the sleeve was slightly padded, but the under
half had fully three inches of cotton. From this
padded cell the lady escaped. Every bone in
! the narrow little chest was as visible as the tars
of the CRATE. Two such broomsticks as
those poor arms l have seldom seen. y
Madame produced the corsets. These were
| padded in front at the top and at the bottom
! behind; so between Hewitt, the stay max err
and Evernall, the dress-naker, Miss was
turned out a 'pump and pleasing per-
SON." But ho, there will be one indignant man
hxra fI,a stt
denied him. He will have to grin and bear it
and pray that the cotton crop don't fail
| This girl was undoubtedly physically and
morally unfit to be either wife or mother
Shall she be permitted to deprive a man of
the right of rearing offspring and
pcrpetuating his name and family! Shall
such marriage be regarded as sacramental?
Shall contracts thus compassed be per-
mitted to bind the deceived and injured
party!
A law declaring all marriage contracts thus
entered into voidabie would do more to
promote the happiness and improve the ply
steal, mental and moral condition of man
and woman than our modern Solons seemed
to have dreamed of.
What can be more shocking TO the man
woman of proper instincts than the act
of consorting with one they have reason
to hate or despise? The good always
abhor deceit, consequently must hate or de-
spise its author. The more stringent the laws
touching divorce, the greater and more innu-
merable will be the frauds inducive to mar
riage, increasing discomfort, the demand for
divorce, and in the event of refusal-possi-
BILE murder.
There is nothing new for consideration in
this matter, the ground has been travelled
over and over during the ages that have
passed Thirty years of indissoluble mar
rage has been found sufficient TO reduce a
people to the condition of pandemouium
| who had lived happily for centuries without
divorce when a dissolution of the marriage
contract might be had for the asking. These
| thoughts have been hastily, possibly too hast
| lily, reduced to paper, not in spirit of con-
| troversy, but with sincere desire to point
out that apparently better way so happily trod
by the ancients. OBSERVER
St. Paul, Feb. 81, 1855.