The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-14


settlements
Men do not earnestly and angrily dis
cuss the question of the sun rising III the
east, although, to be sure, it Is not very
long since q prophet arose in Pennsyl- -.
vauia to declare that the earth Is station %
ary and the sun reyolvant, but as u gen .
eral thing that subject as well as the fact -
that two and two make four has been =
settled and laid away some time since 7.
along with the veraciousness of George =.
Washington and the supremacy Of the ~
American eagle over all the fowl that fly. ~ y.
Among these ever 20 be debated and n n
never settled subjects there Is not one, u u
especially IN our own country, so impos- ID ="
sible to decide, so keenly debated, so We 'e
henently decided first on the one side
and thcsI on the other, as divorce. D
y large body of persons, and many of y
them among the very best and wisest Of "
our people, clergymen, statesmen and 81
leaders Of public thought, have banded -
themselves in an antidivorce league, w
pledged to use their best endeavOrs to AZ
procure . uniform divorce law in all orr "
states, and that law 10 be of the most a.
stringent, only allowing divorce for the =,
Scriptural Cffense, and even IL that case -
not without final proof and great ~
protracted effort -"tlyS prone to
Our English cor,e:--Jursc and rs fond of
the conserye+- 'ney arc of red beef. until
red tar ~''dOiiSlmert of Sir Cresswelrs az;
vorce court have tried this method of
r1gld legislation upon divorce. and ,,ot
with the most fortunate results -,
Tor instance, at the life of Georoo F1iot
the English law had set Mr.. Lc,ves
Tree from his profigate wife. he ana
MARY Ann Eyan5 would have l.o.,,
quietly married according To law MI
the great novelist would not have LEFT
upon her name stain which. Lov-e,er
anectlon and respect may gid if 70
mains precisely the same stain attaclirc,
10 the name OF any other woman who
hves with man legally married TO an
other woman. Or look at Charles 8ro,.
daunt, whom the English law, ,.of,,so1
to set free from a woman whose g.
cesses had driven her to INSANITY.
On that trial and from other so,,-ces |
IL mas been all too plainly proven that
the rigid English law of divorce Of "a
years ago did not succeed in puardine,
the sanctity Of the marriage coveuert
or the honor and peace OF the faniJvan
more etfectually than the laxest of orr
western state regulations, and TO saw 4
1rVorce Is moro easily procured in Lon
ooh man III New 1ork-our state being
especially rlgld IN this respect and a
new York divorce smirching ONLY .he
character Of the one against whom tr,o
judgment Is rendered and forbidiin,.o
subsequent marriage by the offenfii1o,
party.
In some parts of the far west it is said
one may get divorce for almost any
conceivable cause. do not youcb for {
the exactness of this statement. buf can {
Wen believe 1t after some incidents Of
Iravel' III the west Among these was n {
Drlef companionship with young girl of
- years ha1ling from Chicago. After 1
nai1 an hours acquaintance this Young L
lady' VINO was as pretty and as sillv as c
any girl have ever met anywhere. CON {
hded 70 me that she and '.Charlie" n1a5o a
Two OF party to visit Milwaukee for q
the day. and as the theater .kept late'
they missed the train they had MANNED | 6
10 take home. In this dilemma Soma W
one suggested that the young men had p
better marry the girls, and then il U-o1,Id al
De quite correct to go TO n hotel. Three h
couples accepted the proposition. and I'll
she and Charlie became man and wife til
AFTER an acquaintance of about . fort VI
night. di
land where is Charlie now" venturad W
l, seeing that the poor child was evident he
ly alone. m
"oh, he's at homo in Chicago" replied TO TO
she carelessly. He's in a store and IN
= O--ONASSAA ~ OtIF his S1Al, let alone
my hats. I reckon III stop east awhile sal
with some friends and then get . di- al.
Vorce. We were only fooling when we
got married, you know, and we don't ma
get along first rate anyhow" an
And what do your parents say about an
ltf asked l. But the girl tossed her head VI,
IN pretty scorn ut the idea of parental sd,
d
q guess they haven't got much to say enc enc
about it. Pas gone off TO Mexico or wa wa
and mas just got married Col-
again and is glad to be shut OF me. con con
Reckon I can paddle my own canoe with ID u
,ut their help" %
Now, between the laxity which rem t MI
iers such story as this possible-and 1 III
ssure you it is absolutely true story Al,
nd the rigidity which drove George -
ewes and Mary Ann Evanssto open de- 50
lance of law there lies vast distance -
happy medium, wherein, to my mind rs, Us
he true solution of the problem lies ptell
which again reminds me of - - - -
PIKE first narrated and tba-@ explained to SD
lie by ''gerr-slar~.;In from Boston dur ue4t
ng my late western tour ItaI
1t seems that Professor Apassiz with polsc
ONE other learned pundits of Boston Bu
'aS unwrapping a recently imported iirst
iunrny and dlsputing as to its being TINS
laV OF priest, fact presently estab- Fay
ii;s ~ A. upon the mummy oblig
A. -, -- --li,'S1 Vi the sFalhlnSs whic
"eIeuDoh ASas- shaft
80 - - sworn
By way of coming down softly from .I,;, !,
csc Athenian heights will add to this T.
ecdote one from my own experience Won
pre- famiiarly illustrating the Same 60
cory. L was having my photograph fions
Ken by very charming foreigner. re I'm;
ltly acquainted with the English o,7~5o
lgue, and he, after various efforts to Iotb;,
the proper expression upon my face. enfIv
,lalIned; down
Not too severe ana not 100 smiling, blows