Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-03-07
WOODBURY., N J, THURSDAY, MARCH Z, 1895.

SaCr1nce which are the inspiration Of
every true life, married or single The
ideal must ever be beyond and above
us, while we push ON and do the best
we can with the real that surrounds us.
1t Is the misunderstanding and revolt
against conditions natural and just, or
at least universal, that cause sulks,
pouts, sharp words, jealousies, idle
tears''-in short, those petty quarrels-
The little rift within the lutte
That renders all the music mute.
Ambitious rulers have divorced their
consorts because they had no children,
but what shall we say of disunions grow
ing out Of quarrels over the naming of a
child, or its education, or because either
father or mother is jealous Of the baby,
or because the baby is nuisance any
way?" Yet most Of us have witnessed
just these things. and not for the last
time either unless the world be sudden
ly grown better.
The whole world was startled recently
by the news that NJ Casimir- Perier,
the president of the French republic,
had suddenly resigned his exalted office
deserted his post in time of danger,
his more relentless critics said And
the severity of criticism upon this abrupt
action has augmented a hundredfold,
now that it is explained by the coinci-
dent separation of the ex president and
his wife A domestic quarrel, then,
was at the bottom of it ALL As to the
precise nature of this quarrel, common
report is as yet discreetly silent but
judging from the laxity of the French
code in regard to such matters, and in
view of the motto noblesse oblige so
proudly exemplified in many an old
world aristocracy, it may safely be said
that the cause was a trifiing one as
compared with the gravity Of the scan
dal. Examples Of proud reticence and
forbearance on the part Of men and
women of noble or high social rank are
apparent on every hand today. Take,
for instance, the White House at Wash
ington. No scandal has ever cast it's
shadow there in more than 100 years.
Yet every one acquainted with the in
ner history of Washington life knows
that on at least one occasion within the
present century such calamity has
been averted only by the heroic resolu-
tion of individuals to suffer in silence
rather than risk national disgrace
This is the spirit in which true men
and women ought to regard the duties
and obligations of married life toward
one another and the world at large.
While there is some divergence of
views between Protestants and Roman
Catholics regarding the validity of mar
riage, yet both alike must applaud the
earnest utterance of the late Cardinal
McCloskey in one Of his later pastoral
letters: "You have only to look around
you, to read our daily journals, TO listen
to daily discourse, in order to realize
that the Christian idea of marriage is
gradually disappearing from mems
minds. With great sorrow we see this
sacred union often destroyed for trivial
causes; families divided by the baneful
effects of divorce; homes broken up and
children separated from their parents;
husbands and wives breaking the bonds
they had sworn to keep till death and
forming new alliances, soon again to be
broken at the dictate of passion, fancy
or caprice. !"
Do not these words suggest undevel
oped possibilities for many women who
fancy they have no sphere for the exer-
else Of their influence or charm? The
fact is that in these days we hear a good
deal more about woman's prerogatives
than about her duties. l am much of
Al -
when she says that the mission of the
ideal woman is to make the whole
world more homelike.