The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-01-11
SOCIETY ON DIVORCE.
Miss Josephine Marie Deals With
the Question In a Novel.
VIEWS OF A NEW YORK WOMAN.

Says the Nuptial Knot Is Tied For
Life-'Let No Man Put Asunder"
Tries to Show Christians Should
Never Dissolve Marriage Ties-SOme
New York society women are publicly
assuming a hostile attitude toward the
practice of divorce. Mrs John King
Van Rensselaer, recently published list
Of persons of the first social prominence
and excluded every name that had ever
figured in divorce case. Now appears
a book written by one of the youngest
women in society condemning divorce
through the medium of fiction. Miss
Josephine Marie, in novel called "Let
No Man Put Asunder, " has expressed
with great emphasis the Catholic point
of view in regard to this social problem.
Miss Marie is the youngest daughter
of the retired broker Joseph Marie of
New York and the niece of Peter Marie,
who has figured in New York society
for many years. Miss Marie's social po-
sition is one that has enabled her to
know the most prominent people and to
observe all the inner workings of $50
ciety."
The young author cares more for the
church, however, than she does for So
cial gayeties. She was educated in the
Convent of the Sacred Heart and now
spends the greater part of her time in
the charitable work connected with ST.
Francis Xavier's church Personally
Miss Josephine Marie is a charmingly
spirituelle young woman, with a pale.
delicate face and dark brown eyes and
hair.
Miss Marie's book is not written for
Catholics alone. 1t is for all readers
who like a wholesome, thoughtfully
written story. Miss Marie is very un-
willing that the public should think of
her as a Catholic woman expounding
Catholic doctrines for Catholic readers.
LET No Man Put Asunder" will I'M
doubtedly be one of the most widely
read books of the season. 1t has been
most attractively brought out by New
York firm of publishers.
The crisis of the book is a woman's
temptation to desert her husband in Or
der to marry his brother. Esperance lie
Clerque, orphan and Catholic, is loved
by two brothers. The one whose love
she returns is made through the others
treachery to seem unfaithful to her
When she has become the wife of the
man who has deceived her, she discov-
ers his deceit. She is urged to divorce
herself. Catholic advice saves her. She
sends away the man she loves and
spends her life with her husband, who
subsequently loses his sight in resouing
from fire the brother he has injured.
The passages bearing on divorce are
sucoinct and emphatic.
When the marriage has been valid"
says the heroine at one point, nothing
can dissolve the tie. -
The man who has deceived her asks
of Esperance, "Wha; would you do if
you were to marry and then find it was
for the worse?"
Be faithful 90 my promises, of
course, monsieur, was the prompt re-
ply.
The hero says: divorce is nothing
less than the upheaval of society. A
light regard of the marriage tie, de-
grading wifehood and motherhood, saps
the national life, leading it to destruo-
ton. -
Divorce, Decorating home, inevi-
tably lowers woman and deprives the
offspring Of at least one natural protect
or"
&C. It is difficult to see how any Chris
tian could marry a divorced person
without qualm of conscience. For a
Catholic it would be an impossibility. /"
He is still your husband, " says the
priest when the broken hearted wife
appeals to him, land your duty, hard
though it is, is clear. No assistance
from the state is necessary no physical,
temporal harm can reach you, and, my
daughter, no moral evil either"
The wife, accepting this advice, says
to her husband:
II am yours, Austin. Nothing in
this life can sever us. Never shall in
thought, word or deed be disloyal to
my VOW. New York World.
A Hero For the Sake of Science.
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