Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-08-08

wzntzre-8e enables the criminal par
les 10 have their way wishOx7t further
interference; tie wrgngef husband is
set free. left oar In the cold and laugh
ez at by those who sr0nged hiEn An
sdrairzh3e arrznreFne1t no doubt, but
enc that would not suit me. ChaGEn
q sSz goutt IL would be curious 70
Know IN matters Of this Kind whether
divorced persons are really satisfied
when they have got their divorce
whlhe- the amount Of red tape and
parchment expended In their interest
has done them good and really -
leved their feelings WbeSheC, for in
stance. the betrayed husband is glad
TO have got rid OF his unfzithfUl wife
by throwing her with the full author
ity and permission Of the Ew1 into his
rivals ar1sg ! almost Doubt IL !
heard Of q strange case In England
once. A man. EoTing in good society.
having more than sUSpicions OF his
vffe's fidelity, divorced her; the Law
pronounced her guilty. Some years
afteTward be, being free, met her
again. fell IN love with her for thu
second time and remarked her. She
was tnaturallya delighted al his max
ing such a food Of himself-fOr hence
forth, whatever she chose 10 do. be
could not reasonably complain with
out running the risk OF being laughed
A. So Dow the number and variety
Of her lovers Is notorious In the ar
ucuar social circle where she move
while he, poor wretch, is pevforce
tongue tied and dare not consider him
self wronged. There is no more pit
liable object in the world than such a
man; secretly derfded and Jeered al
by his fellows, he occupies an almost
worse position than that Of q galley
slave, while In his own esteem he has
sunk SO low that be dare not, even In
secret, try 70 fathoZa the depth 10
which he has fallen Some may assert
that 10 be divorced is q social stigma.
II used 20 be so perhaps. but society
has grown Ienlent nowadays. Dfvorc-
! ed women hold their own in the best
society, and what Is strange is that
they are very generally petted and
pitied
~Fcor thingr' says society, gutting
up its eyeglass 10 scan admirably the
beautiful heroine OF the latest aristo-
cratic scandal-@she had such g brute
of a husband! No wonder she liked
that dear Lord SO-and-Sol Very
wrong OF her Of course, but she L. SO
young! She a married Al sixteen
I quite a child-could not have know
her own mind!'
The husband alluded 10 might have
been the best and most chiVaIrUus Of
men,-anything but q "'brute"-yet he
always figures as such somehow. end
gets no sympathy. And, by the way,
il is rather a notable fact that all the
beautiful, famous Dr. notorious women
were married at sixteen" How is
! this managed; / al account for il in
Southern climates. where girls are full
grown at sixteen and old at thirty
NJ l cannot understand it's being the
case In England, where a "rliss' OF
sixteen Is a most Objectionable and
awkward ingenue, without any Of the
charms where'xth TO charm" and
whose conversation is always vapii
and silly to the point OF absolute ex-
haUstion on the part of these who are
forced TO listen to IL These sixteen
yeaF-Old marriages ere, however, the
only explanation frisky English ma
irons can give for having such alarm
ingly prolific families of tall sons and
daughters and IL is n happy and ecs-
yenient excuse-one that provides a
satisfactory reason for the excessive
painting OF their faces and dyeing OF
their hair. Being young tas they SO
uobly ASSERT they wish 70 look eve
younger. A la bonnie heurel IL men
cannot see through the deii1ats tic-
ton, they have only themselves to
blame. As for me, / believe In the
old, old, apparently foolish legend Of
Adam and Ewes sin and b curse
which followed 1.-THE curse Oh man
which Is inevitably carried out TO this
day. God said:
Because" tmark that because9
thou hast hearkened unto the voice
of thy wife, or iEy woman, who
ever she be) "and hast eaten OF the
tree Of which l commanded thee, say
ing, Thou shalt not eat OF ii" lthe tree
or fruit being the evil suggested first
10 man by woman, cursed is the
ground for thy sake; In sorrow shalt
thou eat OF IL all the days OF thy lifer'
True enoughi The curse is upon all
vino trust woman TOO far-rne sorrow
upon all who are beguiled by her
witching batteries. OF what avail
her poor excuse in the ancient story
'The serpent beguiled me and 1 did
eatwHad she never Esta1ed she could
not have been beguiled. The weak
ness. the treachery, was Ia herself,
! and i there Still Through everything
the bitterness Of il runs. The oma
tempts.-the man yieIds-and the gate
| OF Eden-the Eden Of a clear con-
science and an untrammelled soul, is
shut upon them. For ever and ever
the Divine denunciatioD re ecnoes like
muttering thunder through the clouds
Of passing generations; for ever and
ever we unconsclously carry 1t ont in
I bur own nsss 10 it's fun extent till the
/ heart grows sick and the brain weary,
and we long for the end Of Ii all,
which Is death-Death, that myster-
ious silence and darkness at which we
sometimes shudder, wondering va
guely-Can IL be worse than life.