Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-19

10 tnem must be classed those calm
natured, clear-headed spinsters who ar,
busy, helpful and happy in de!iberatel,
chosen single life.
do not think the girls'of the present
appreciate their advantages over the
girls OF the last generation. Young la
dies then we're educated wholly for 80
ciety, and work was thought a degre
dation. They wrote poetry and senti
ment and they married young, but sad
indeed was their state when widow
hood, or worse than widowhood befell
them, and they we're left with helpless
clinging hands torn loose from thei1
support to face the world alone, for they
found, as women must ever do from
whom wealth goes, or to whom misfor.
tune comes, that the sweet social world
wherein they we're hattered and caressed
then becomes a hard and cruel world
of business-where there are many to
injure and few to aid. But female edu.
cation nowadays is practical. A girl
can choose her own profession, and it IS
not only respectable but p~raiseworthy
fjr her to work for q livelihood. II she
is wise she will choose her own separate
path in life, and walk s~erenely therein,
iuding content, if not happiness, in duty
we'll performed. Then will there be no
occasion for her to marry either for pro-
lection or support. But if girls will
marry, and I suppose they will, regard
less of this good advice, let it be with
a full understanding of the phrase-"for
better or for worse'-and with a clear
consciousness that the obligatlor is for
life, and should the worst come, and
poverty, disease or misfortune befall the
husband of her choice, she must not
shrink nor ~falter, but take up his burden
in addition to her own.
This brings us to the second part of
my subject, and I cannot too strongly
condemn the loose and promiscuous way
of granting divorces that formerly pre-
vailed in some of western territories,
not M in fifty of which will stand the
test of genuine law, but especially would
l commend the practice of that benef-
cent church, whose teachings are ever
true to the highest interests of human.
ty-that has placed it's safeguard around
the marriage relation and it's ban upon
divorces.
Senator Kyle's bill for regulating a
traffic already established is all right as
far as it goes, but it should go further
and abolish altogether this unhcly
traffic in holy things-whom God has
joined together man cannot put asunder
In any life there Can be but one true
marriage, and to obtain a divorce from
n partner for the sake of marrying an
other is sacrilege that should be pro-
hibited by law.
Yet 1 do not lose sight of the manifold
ills Of life that are often too grievous to
be borne. For such ills there may be a
remedy, but that remedy is rot divorce.
II [ could say one word hat would help
some Borrowing in the solution
Of such difficulties it would be this:
Don't eve lose faith in the man to whom
IN your happy youth you gave such I'M
limited power Owe your life. If you
have ever loved him, the love is there in
your heart still and will never die. With
our contracted vision we can see so
short a way before lis, but rest assured
that if you seek with inpatient hands to
put aside your cross, there will come to
pou a time for deep regret. We cannot
escape destiny nor can We break the ties
that bind our lives to others in links that
are lasting as life and as strong ssas
death. Take counsel only of your W
heart and follow it's dictates. The Lord
has given us all burdens to bear and to
none of lis are they greater than our
strength. Patience is the most divine of
virtues, and in Gods own way, not O urs,
will these mysteries be solved.
ZEzULA
John Anderson Dead,
A sad case of lingering sickness and
suffering was terminated Friday !. . by
the death Of John Anderson. The end