Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-27
AN ANTI-MARRlACE WAR.
Mss Lanchctte's Experiment Sets
the British Matrop BIushlna,
THE FAvoRlTEs HAVE AGALa TIME
crnni<s ana Misaadcrstood oentuscs
liastcn to Denouncc nirsa.ny
Which stiii Survives. ,


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New York World.
a ricu red blush pervndes the features
singular conduct of Miss LditAl.an-
chester. Of Salvatore. Kingston iilil
h.nR.und. She has been called mink"
lorwnrd thing and person uud
ner gvinss on have been denounced AZ
highly syandalous. The British patcr
iiuilins hns done almost as much bush
ne over Miss Manchester as tie Brush
h11tron. But wherever the question OF
utntiiihony Is discussed every one Is talk
iig about this remarkable young woman,
VINO Inns tried 10 wipe out marriage laws,
banns aud everything pertaining to tho
siernnient Of matrimony.
Miss Manchester Is "a years old, well
educated and scod looking. Sbv mutri-
cllatei at London university pretty
slff EXAM" aud then went as u teacher
az the Maria Grey Training school Ia
London, where she was observed TO bv
ole OF tho newest Of the new women.
Her Views on social questions were found
{" DO 80 advanced" that her retirement
ftoin this post was rapid. and abe got
pace ns secretary OF q mining company.
She WIS shining light oil the Batter
SEA brunch Of tho Social Democratic
Federation. where ny,handcd reform.
es met every Tuesday night aud passed
resolutions beginnlng Whereas we, tho
people of Engond." aud demanding tho
abol.tlo OF tho house OF lprds, the sub
trc,ion of the. royal family 10 course OF
lnaniiion and general era OF white
winged reform. Miss Manchester made
smcchcs, eloquent but Ok an extremist
character.
The ceremony OF marriage was ono OF
the things she preached against. advu-
eating state OF things with regard to
home life that II was highly cnibarsas.
sspg 70 discuss Mt gatherings Of Dorcas
societies.
One day she announced TO hor family
tiaf cho had made up her mind 10 taku
up her abode with James sullivan. d
man far beneath her nocially mud intel
hclnnlE. She said she had NO lnrltiln
of becoming Mrs. Sullivan. Then Bhc
proceeded TO calmly pncl, her trunk ut
tie same tlmc treating her acandnllzcd
father and brothers 10 Mn .mpasa.oncd
bnranguc against marriage. She Ind
lid that she and sullivan were going to
become living object lessons Of the utter
lnck Of necessity for nny such Institution.
IA vain her fathor pointed out that hun
dreds OF such object lessons parade tho
streets OF London every night and make
u sorry picture. She meant to point the
way to the abolition OF what she looked
upon na slavery. she said aud she know
her business and wanted no dictatlon,
Interference or advice. III
They sent for DIR. Bnndford, the grave.
kindly, whltc-hared family physician. lilo
was greatly shocked NJ her preparations
for nu hnti'matrimonial campaign. In
the presence OF her brother he questioned
her aud this Is his account cf what hap
pened;
First Of ALL | had heard there WINS
insanity In her family. and that She had
hecn peculiar for long time Her chief
argument was that marriage was I'm
moral, How II was so she did not OK.
ain That liza
she said. She would not marry, she de-
cared, because she preferred TO be In
dependent.
II nskcd bcr what she would think II
Rhe found herself deserted with seven
children on her hnnds. She replied that
desert her, ! thcreupon signcd = cortih-
cate OF insanity On the ground that she
did not know what ahc was doing. She
did not rcnllze TINT abe was committing
moral suicide by llving illesitimatcly with
Sullivan, and she was unable to take care
Of horself
She wns n mon0manlnc on the sub
jcct Of marriage II she hnd snid that she
contemplated physical suicide ceriih-
ritc might have been signed without
question. | considered that was equal.
ly justified ~ signing one when she ex-
pressed her determination to commit this
social Suicide"
Strnirhtway DR.. Blnudford signed ono
9 srtlicato mud 4 Dr W, u. 81. Lawrence
linnry signed another. Miss Ianchrstnr
was Put In q cab. driven 10 the ltochnmp-
ton lnnntic asylum aud nut In one of tho
strongest cells thcrc. The socialists took
up the cudgpls on her behalf aud the m.
siot Of Il was That the lunacy commits
y oncrs ordered her release.
The Pail Mall Gazette snys that Snlll.
van was willing To marry Miss Ianchcsior
IN duo and legal form. but TINT she would
not hear Of H. Tho marquis Of Queens.
bury, who II " said Ia Invariably wrong
on moral lucAtlons. wrote sensible let.
tor 10 Sullivan, snylug:" Changes Of law
follow and DO not precedc chnngra Of
npinion. We want changes of opinion
first. 1t IN not fair 10 place the woman
IN such cruel position. TO say nothing of
the children III such n marriage"
The Pail Mnll Gazette points ont that
the views OF Miss Manchester nre. held
nlso by Grnnt Allen. whom no ono thinks
NJ clnnpng Into an asylum because OF
them. The sngrcstion. however. that
Mr.. Allen should be- attended 20 has not
been received altogether with llsfavor.
Al the crnnks and faddsts are writ
ng 10 tho London papers on this new
phase Of "Is Marriage Fnllnrew Up 10
the time the last mail left Liverpool for
his country hardly a single social mono
nnninc was vet 10 10 heard r. m. or
course the verdict II overwhelmingly In
favor OF matriniOny, but there Is an
making army Of queer arguments
irninst II. some OF this women CORES.
1ondrnts nro NJ the tyne whose IN .mbcrr
,onld never get an offer OF marriage n