The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-01

lifted their eyebrows and said, 'Ah,
| well, there must have been something
back of his readiness for the divorce,
and passed me by on the other side.
Sometimes, they tried to console
me; then | felt / should go mad. Their
covert stabs, their inuendoes. their
| gigglings, cacklings and iinpertin-
ences drove me wild. / fancy ! must
have offended all womankind, for
| they now let me severely alone. 1
know no women, nor do | care to.
The last woman l trusted and whom
/ invited to share a theatre box with
me made some fippant excuse and
then said to a fetch-and-carry: AS ii
/ would show myself in public with a
divorced"
Men have been bolder a~dversaries,
But an open fight is drawer than an
ambush. | think men are the natural
enemies of women who are, or have
been, unhapLily married. Especially
is the Divorce singled out for attack.
After one or two repulses a man Will
leave the woman, who, though not
happy, is yet living with her husband
alone. He ome to the cynical con
clusion that Sc j'en men want par la
chandelic.' But the divorce is, he
considers, his legitimate prey"
Nov figure to yourself the con-
dition of a woman without the pro-
lection of a husbands name, the sub
ject of woman's contumely, and tell
me if | exaggerated when l said that
divorce Is a state of continual tor
ment.
Il wish / might send a cry of warn
ing to all those foolish women who
from some frivolous pretexJ, some
fancied wrong, are ripe for divorce.
The alarming increase of divorce may
well be viewed with apprehension.
1t is honeycombing society and sap
ping it's strength with frightful
effect"
eff you think the experience and
advice of a divorce would cause one
woman to pause before she would
take the. fatal plunge, by all means
use what / have said. The bitterness
of death Itself cannot be worse than
the suspicion, the cruel judgment, the
coarse insinuations the constant
temptation by which a divorced wo-
man is surrounded. II that woman
chances to be refined and sensitive,
think what hours of mental agony
are hers! Think, too, of the remors
Ul1tb IluSb OltGu WISH CllOuSLt
that had she been less exacting, less
light as air, had she spent as much
energy in trying to keep her hus-
bands love as in reviling him, she
might have been a happy wife,"
A Word of Advice.
Ladies, a word to you on a very i'm
portant subject, says the Philadelphia
Press. The next time any of you
goes out walking with a masculine
escort, and that escort catches you by
tho arm, whether grasping it above
the elbow or making a scoop OF his
hand and holding your arm at and
below the elbow, snub him then and
there. He is illbred if he attempt
such a familiarity. and nothing but a
snub will cure il~l-breeding. No spir-
tied lady should permit such a thing.
1t is becoming altogether too common,
and a few well-directed snubs
will be necessary to cure the
custom. Take his arm if he
offer it in a gentlemanly way, and
tn ere is no reason why you should not
take it; but do not permit the vulgar
ity first spoken of. A French corre-
spondent says, apropos of this:-"The
late M. Meissonier, though a great
artist. was a small man physically,
while his second wife was said to be
the largest woman in Paris. Very
shortly after they were married they
went out walking, and madame
offered her arm to her husband. So
deeply was the sensitive nature of the
artist wounded that the relations of
the newly married couple were almost
ruptured, and he scarcely forgave his
wife,