The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24
DIVORCE DINNER PARTIES.
Remarkable Social Developments and
Some Astounding suggestions.

Paris Letter in London Truth.
Divorce dinner parties have been frequent
ton that they (the persons to whom they
are addressed) are asked to celebrate the
happy liberation of the person sending them
from an unsuitable marriage. y regular
formula has sprung up which may be safely
adopted. 1t Is not thought good taste for
man who has come out of the Divorce Court
with the honors OF war to call his friends OF
both sexes TO rejoice with him on the event
All that Is tolerated is a private dinner.
please. The most straitlaced and orthodox
persons see no harm in going 10 a divorce
dinner If the inviting lady mentions in a foot
note of the card that she is suing for
religious divorce at Rome. and has every
reason to expect that her suit will succeed
This only means that she does not object
for respectabiiity's sake. to pay 1900 francs
to the Congregation of Rites. The court of
Rome allows thirteen pleas for divorce.
The most usual one now for women of
rank and fortune to plead is not having
really consented to be married In the church
Lady Mary Hamilton urged this plea when
she wanted to get rid of the Prince Of Mon
AGO and marry Count Festetics. The divorce
now resumes her family name, and usage
will soon authorize her in borrowing her
Fleury, daughter-in-law of General Fleury.
the late Emperor's Master Of the Horse.
calls herself Baroness Deslandes. her father
having been a financial baron. She gave a
dinner the other day to celebrate her happy
deliverance from the Comte Fleury, and had
the so-caIied Duchesse de Camposeiice, a di-
vorcee who has married again, the Princess
Jean BonaDarte and different artists and
authors. The Baroness educated with
the late Queen Mercedes at the Convent of
the Assumption. She goes In the Art-liberty
(the soul OF arD. and having applied to
Rome for a religious divorce, does not in
tend to break with the church
The divorce law is killing society No
woman with a husband worth keeping can
now endure the idea OF letting another per-
son of her sex who is at all attractive
speak to him. Enterprising and dowerless
girls marry any one at all who can intro
duce them to rich men from among whom
they can, after skillful management and in
trigue secure husbands. A girl with a great
fortune is pretty certain after marriage TO
get disconnected with her matrimonial lot
and to 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 engage
ment. Curiously enough, French widows are
not inclined to marry a second time: but the
divorcee is nearly always in haste to re-
marry. When children are young they do
not object to this. The daughter Of NJ.
Barbe. the Minister who received 5OO,0O0
francs from the Panama company. repudi-
ated her husband 10 take another. When
her little son heard Of her second engage-
ment he clapped his hands for JOY and cried
How delightful. / shall now have two
papas instead OF one to bring me cakes and
| take me to the circus Given the French
| character, divorce made easy seems to ne
an evil.