The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-27
"NInbv on DIVORCES.

In the midst of life's busy whirl,
events are Of little moment to us. until
one more startling than the others ar
rests our attention and arouses us
from cur reveries. The divorce mill
grinds out it's daily supply, scattering
it's fragments of misery and intrigue
broadcast, to be again assimilated by
the community, which, with never an
effort to throw off its lethargy, sleeps
on, till one grist cracks louder and
longer than the rest, when it aWakenS
in horror and astonishment to the fact
that the son of James G. Blaine, the
daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, Mrs.
Frank Leslie, and the Vanderbilts are
in the hopper. Our miller is no respec-
ter of persons, and makes no caste dis
tinctionS; rather he boasts that his
patrons are from the rich and the
poor, of high and low degree, youth
and old age, springtime and harvest;
that his mill Is never idle and its
wheels never rusty-but with patience
grinds he ALL"
You, Mary and John, now so happy
in yourselves and hopeful of the fu-
ture; you, Ida, Ed. and Tom, sure that
the earth is yours and the fullness
thereof: you. Gertrude and Charlie, just
ready to put your hands in the ma tri-
monial moose, stopi Are you on your
way to the millers? Have you care
fully sifted your wheat, and is there
no chaff? mo, none whatever" you
say-you ARE sure of that?" Clearly,
then, if this mill-wheel ever ceases to
turn, the remedy is not with Mary and
John-Ida. Ed, Tom and Gertrude and
Charlie now.
l believe it was Dio Lewis. the noted
physician for women, who, in answer
TO the question-How long before ma
ternity should a woman lay aside her
said: "One hundred years.
So it is that every evil under the sun
dates back, from the beginning Of time,
to woman, and she might just as well
shoulder the responsibility and be done
with it. Time was, when we were all
innocent and pure-confiding and con-
came the fatal knowledge
of good and evil, and today we are in
the vortex of gross materiality,
which threatens to engulf us, unless
the mothers unitedly take up arms
against this sea Of troubles, and by
end them
The thoughtless manner in which en-
are made nowadays. and
the trite references TO the marriage
VOW so universal, suggests that the old
fashioned way of publishing the
bans" in public "a long time before the
any person may object
if he knows of any just cause why the
marriage should not take place" should
be revived. If the one most import
ant event in ones life prove con
summation devoutly 10 be wished
due consideration and seriousness must
be given 1t, and right here the mother
can be the mentor, not a stern and
designing parent, but wise and low
ing counsellor; not Just at this crisis
In the life of her child, either, but way
back a hundred years''-wshen it was
innocent and true, and trusted to her
guidance; when its habits were form
ing and its companions and purposes
within her dictation. If then her am
bition was that her daughter should
be the belle of the ball." and her son
not wonder that the courts are busy
with matrimonial insists. 1t is her |
come easy, go easy
style of doing things is evidenced IN |
The number and variety of divorce |
Eases which fill the calendars. and by |
The facility with which that which !
Tod has Joined together is put asunder |
ny man-'for $50 and no publicity |
given" You need not arch your eve
orows when Chicago and South Da- |
1ota are mentioned. 1t is just as APP
parent in Utah, as in other places, that |
occur with a frequency |
hat is alarming, land no questions !
asked" The law but conforms to the |
demands of a community, and if we |
ire false and giddy people our courts
must deal with flash and dizzy prob |
ems Not one of US 'calkilate" that |
We shall be a party to any divorce |
proceedings when we consider mar
iage but have we burnt all the bridges?
None of us expect or desire unhappi- |
less for those we love, in their mat
imonial venture; but have we guarded |
veil the causeways? 1--WE don't ap-
prove of the laXity in divorce laws;
anyhow we think it is just awful the
way they grant them. on any and
very pretext," but "am ! my brothers
,eeper?" please have me excused"
Ogden, March 20 NAB.