Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-03
A SOCIAL DISQUISITION.
sGath' Thinks That ssThlngs Ha We
Come to Pretty Pass.o

ssGath', Thinks That ssThIngs Have
Come to Pretty Pass.o
l see that young Mrs. Jim Blaine, the
daughter OF the Nevins family from
about Columbus. O., has got counsel to
sue her husbands father and mother for
alternating the precious husbands affec-
tions. 1t has come to that pass that
parents cannot express their dislike of
the matrimonial alliance OF son without
being compelled to go to court and
enter bond and be examined as
witnesses From what l understand
young Jim Blaine started on fire water
in boyhood. A gentleman who was
much with his father during the Presi-
dental campaign OF 1884 said that Blaine
would sometimes lose his balance and
temper. Especially when in the midst
of all his older difficulties, young Jim
would come in full of bug juice. and the
father, who had raised the condition of
his family by tremendous labor through
years, would show how little ambition
was bringing to him, in view of incidents
Of that sort. Then Mrs. Blaine would
say: Father, don't get mad now;" and
| ii some document was missing which
Blaine could not lay his hands upon, she
would set to work to find it.
According to the statement, MIR. Blaine
has been himself just as kind to his new
daughter-in law as if he had gone and
picked her out, but still he is party to
the suit because his wife did not see
much sense in the connection. This sort
of thing is now called the practice of law
and it would appear that a man need
only be sufficiently conspicuous and sue
cessful in this country in any field to be
open to lawsuit on that account alone,
if no other.
A man writes play and it runs few
weeks, and forthwith another fellow
comes up and says that he deposited a
manuscript containing certain situation
in that play where both the heroes
he wants 100000 damages. Women
men and send them to magazines and
newspapers with their names attached,
and threaten suit if there shall be one
whisper in tine negative. The disease OF
this country is unequal industry on the
part of male and female. Either the
man does all the work for the family, OF
the female does all the work.
A mother OF this kind says that she
dares not think it was the fair thing in
the way that her son was married, and
when the sou comes to that conclusion
himself, that he is not happily married
the lawyers are called in and directed tc
bring suit against the father and the
mother. The son, who cannot support
himself, much less his wife and the dress
business, flies home for subsistence, and
the new family goes there, and MOI
being able TO see the son, who is in g
pout. they come away with the baby
and get lawyers. 1t would be entirely
right TO get lawyer to get after the son
who has married himself without any
idea of the future, and some think that
the marriage was one of ambition in at
least one direction.
1t looks to me as if we were coming to a
much happier condition out Of our neces-
sites, when the females of the household
will have to take hand in cleaning the
household and getting the food ready
for us. We have expelled our own relief
element in the Chinese who could do
the work of domestic servants, and the
time is soon approaching when we can no
longer live with such servants as remain
| have no doubt, as lady recently said
to me, that we shall be infinitely happy
when the wife cooks the food for the
man, or the daughter helps the wife to
do the same, and the man goes to his
work, and then the women will not
complain that her husband is away all
day and she is lonesome. There is
wonderful company in good cookstove.
There is the finest kind of filtration with
good broom. She stoops to conquer
with dust-pan in her hand every time.
This parading of streets all day long in
silks and velvets and wearing diamonds
in the ears of washerwomen surely was
not meant to continue till the end of the
world. AS for personal beauty. have
my doubts whether it is strengthened
by laziness in women. In many a
household where you 60 the athletic
servant and her milk-white skin above
the wrists is a more pleasurable o. ject
than the overdressed wife who cannot
cut the chicken, and merely draws back
and says when she finds the meat
underdone, "I do not know what
we shall do in this country for servants. "
II Cincinnati Enquirer.