The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-30
TO THE DIVORCE
RemarkabIe Social Departure In
tho French Capital
The peplo-sbIe State 20 which FreneA
Society Has Been Reduced by the
Divorce Laws Rich Hn-oanos
Melted and Released ~ Will

Divorce dinner parties have been
frequent this season. The carus OK
invitation mention that they tthe per-
sons TO whom they are addressed ara
asked to celebrate the happy liberia
ton of the person sending them from
an unsuitable marriage. A regular
formula has sprung % which may oe
safely adopted. IL is not thougha
good taste, says a Paris letter IN Lou'
don Truth, for man who has como
ont OF the divorce court with the hon
ors OF war 70 call his friends Of both
sexes 10 rejoice with him on the event.
All that IS tolerated is private din.
ner. But ladies may rejoice a. much
as they please. The most strait-,aced
and orthodox persons see no harm IN
going 70 divorce dinner IL the invit-
ing lady mentions in foot note q the
card that she is suing for religious
divorce 81 Rome and has every reason
- expect tina: her suit VIII succeed.
This only means that she does not Oh
ject. for respectability's sake. IN pay
sixty thousand francs 10 the congrega.
tiou of rites The court OF Rome
allows thirteen pleas Tor divorce. Tha
most usual one now for women OF rank
and fortune 20 plead Is not having
really consented 10 be married In tho
church. Lady Mary Hamilton urged
this plea when she wanted - get riG
Of the prince OF Monaco and marry
Count FesteticS The divoreee now re-
Eumes her family name, and usage
viii soon authorize her in borrowing
her family title. Thus the ci-devans
Comtesse Fleury. dauehter-in-law OF
Gen. Fleury. the late emperor's master
Of the horse, calls herself Baroness
Deslandes, her father having been q
financial baron. She gave dinner the
other day 20 celebrate her happy de
liverance from Comte Fleury. and had
At il Princess dc Po}ignac tdaugh-
ter Of the so-caIled DuchesSe de Cam
poselice, a divorcee who had married
again. Princess Jeanne Bonaparte,
and different artists and authors. Tho
baroness was educated with the late
Queen Mercedes at the Convent o. As
sumption. She goes in for art-liberty
(the soul Of artl. and having applied e
Rome FOR religious divorce does NOT
intend 70 break with the church.
The divorce law is killing society.
No woman with n husband worth
keeping can now endure the idea or
letting another person of her sex who
IS at all attractive speak 20 him. In
terprising and dowcrless girls marry
anyone at all who can introduce them
10 rich men from among whom they
can, after skillful management and
intrigue, secure husbands A girl
with great fortune h pretty certain
after marriage to get Disconnected
with her mat rimouial lot, and - look
out for some one who suits her fancy
better There can be no peace Or
quietneSs under such circumstances
The divorce suit Is often preceded by
an engagement. CuTiously enough
French widows are not Inclined ~
marry q second time; but tho divorces
Is nearly always in haste 20 rcmaTry.
When children are Young they do nok
object 90 this. The daughter Of VI.
Earbc, the minister who received Eva
hundred thousand francs from thu
Panama company. repudisted her hus-
band "a take another When her little
son heard of her second engagement
he clapped his hands Tor joy and ericdi
How delightful, / shall now have
two papas instead of one 70 bring me
cakes and take me 20 the circus
Given the French character divorcp
made easy seems 10 me an evil