The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-27
WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN.

In the last number of the Forum
Eliza Ly nm Linton contributes an article
on The Revolt Against Matrimony," IN
which the stand taken, for women, Is
somewhat peculiar. 1t is not often that
she will admit that the first regret of the
marriage vow, in a majority of cases, Is
felt upon the feminine side of the family.
Women are usually inclined to arbitrari-
ly assert that the man is the least con-
slant, the more deceptive and the sooner
wearied. We clip the following:
Men have known the charm or expert
enced the disappointment of change;
women have not. In the first case,
habits have been formed which
destroy the essential meaning of
monogamy, and revolt and ALLEVIATE
the wife when they are found out, as
they generally are sooner or later. In
the second, no allowance is made for
that curiosity, that desire for experience.
by which the modern woman is devoured
as by fever. The man, stated with
life" wants only the peace and Sc
curity of domesticity. The woman,
Younger, fresher, unaccustomed, wants
the variety, the excitement, and even
the dangers, of a freer intercourse with
the world. The modern woman who Is
content with marriage, maternity, and
domestic life alone, Is as rare a being as
the black swan of the past. 1t all de-
ponds on her temperament where she
seeks her Observation-Disclosures IN art,
politics, philanthropy, money-making,
or love. In any case, marriage Is of the
nature Of an ep sode rather than the COM
pleted drama of her life; and even as an
episode it is one of which she wearies
sooner than the man. In countries
where divorce is easy, and to be had for
other Causes than those which we Eng
fish allow. believe ! am right in saying
that women make for the larger proper
ton of those who apply for relief from a
tie which Inconsistency of affection, if
not necessarily infdelity. has rendered
burdensome.
And this:
Much is made of the monotony of
homogeneous marriage, and the pain,
amounting TO anguish, which men ex-
perience when confronted every day
with the same women. Surely, the
monotony of the same face, the same
voice, the same manners, Expresses a
woman equally with man. But we 90
not allow a like practical outcome of dis
cursiveneSs for the one as So many Of
the others take without leave. Yet the
secret intidelity of women Is more fire.
quent than the open abandonment of
wives by men. = = The outcrV
that has been made against the CALLING
of the yoke and the pinchino of the shoe
is but one among many evidences of the
unrest of the present time, its rampant
individualism and its impotence of dis
cipline. That this outcry should nave
been raised in England by women, and
that facility of divorce and laXity of
sexual relations should be advo-
Gated by them and not by men
only, confirms the view which many
have taken as to the moral evil that fol-
lows too great publicity of female life,
and as TO the political evil that would
follow their politi al power, in the
preference which they would give to the
individual over the communicate the
personal pleasure of the exceptional few
over the Sterner laws working for the
permanent good OF the majority
But little idea of the general tone of
the article can be gained from these short
quotations. The "sterner sex" is also
given severe scoring for indescretion,
but the impartiality and fairness Of the
authorizes in treating the short comings
OF both sexes gives quite a little weight
to the sentiments expressed in the para
graphs above.