Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-08
USUALLY REMARRY.
Divorced WSm4n ara RSrer Than fs
GSREraily Imag5nsd-siy.n'Y.HEs
Per Cent Marry Again
wrhin q Y.ar and Only Per Gent He
mfta Permanently siURie-aow
Sivsrces Attrac: Men.
New York Star.

Was. becomes of divorced WomeD? A
vast field OF unexplored territory is opened
by the question. Just as muies are sup
posed 70 seek for their death some spot
where no eye can bsho!d them, SO di-
vorced women, once divorced, are be-
Utyad to withdraw to some mysterious
limbo In which tha rest Of their livss Is
spent uno5served.
But the Chicago Tribune has been s.
the pains of collecting statistics about
them, and 1t finds that they can accurately
be divided into the four following classes:
Remarked within yesr............1o per cent
Waiting fo- m off .r................lJ per cs1t
Fallen Into evil ways........-... --.lO per cent
devoted TO celibacy 80. .......... per cent
These figures hsvs been compiled from
3 comparison of the divorce lists with the
marriage registers; from the statements
of Judges, justices Of the peace, clergy.
mep, lawyers and court Cfficials, and
from personal inquiry among those VINO
have been divorced. They can be &c
cep.ed ss substantially correct.
The fourth class-:ne class OF peIpes-
nal old msids-seems ludiccou5ly
small. Bat 1t is chiefly confined
20 those poor creatures, aged, infirn, who
endured the brutality OF their hus-
bands es long as strength and health
would permit. Freed from their misery,
they have no thought Of tempting fortune
aes.n. Their number Is Increased by
Those pailosophic women VINO. since their
matrimonial shipwreck, have established
themselves IN business, and laugh OF any
hoiy wlo suggests thss they shall marry
again.
t'Whas, II" they cry. III, who know
whist marriage isf"
And occasionally there retires Into o
convent some womsn who he's had her
hour of notoriety 10 the divorce courts.
She gees with her wrong or her sin, sad
the gates CT lie close upon her.
And, with al this, the fourth class ls
not mora than per cent. If the whole.
The philosophic woman may some day
see her philosophy shsken. The gates OF
the conVen. may reopen S1d the fair
peli!ent may come forth pusgec. a
husband m.3 be waiting f)r them both.
The third class may 6s quickly Dig
missed. Il is composed almost wholly Ct
those against whom the decree OK Divorce
has beea pronounced. Discarded by their
husbands, abandoned by their sweet.
heart, they fsll lower and lower, and ED
in the gutter.
The sec nd Clssa-,he eligibles-coTa
pr;ses chiefly those Wno had 10 matFi-
mon,sl Intentions when thsy sought 6 di-
vorce. a sense Of their wrongs drove
them to take action. Ones free, they fad
that the experience WAS not SO unpless
sat, They lco6 sbCui theul in the hope
of renewing 1t.
The process Of marriage is simple
Rvery facility is accorded 10 tnel parties
10 the county clerks ofIics. They Sand
at window before NJ. Sslmousop, the
marriage license clerk. Mr.. S.imopson
issmsp OF letters He has written sn
sppiaudad work on the Romantic side CT
msr.isee licenses-ssid; indeed, TO be
the standard authority on the subject.
He puts the regular question to the par
ties. asking item under osEh whether
they sre of manageable age, sre un-
married, and may lawfully contract and
be Joined in wedlo-k.
In giving the name cf bride who has
been divorced the bridegroom usually
hesitatas. He refers 30 her SIS "Mtss".
"Hss she been married ba;ore?" asks
Mr.. Sslmonson, seated on bis high Stool,
like q Dalphic priestess on her tripod.
nYes," mueters the bridegroom.
urheu how" demands Mr.. Sslnonso1,
g,anc!ng with grest severity ever his
spectacles-"how can che be Miss?
Produce the decree"
The decree IL Immediately drawn from
the backgrounds bresst-pocket. MIR.
SslmoDsou looks at Il, returns it, writes
out the License. Tie law does not con-
pei him to demand the decree. He does
il to satisfy his literary conscience. Ii
he were not sn author, snd an author Of
romance, he would say nothing aoout it.
"Ard now" he says to the parties,
"you need not dslsy the ceremony. We
have Justice OF the Peace on the prem
ises."
There hiss always been feeling OF
rivalry between the divorce courts and
the County Clerks office. II the former
has every facility for dissolv!ng marriage
why should not the latter have as rip!d
a machinery for knotting them again?
"Look over the marriage register"
said Mr.. Sslmonson, sand you will find
many people OF the same name. Thus:
"July 2I-Blum, Ernest. Blum, Anna.
"August Lies, Henry. Les, Kate: !
"Ssptembsr 2-Jursenser, Frank.
Jurgensen, Mary.
"What does that mssI?"
"They are divorced people who have