Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-07-12
mex YORK DIVORCES.
SEEN TO BE EAsILY OBTAINED
In THE NATIONS GREAT
METROPOLIS.
HANT KEN ADVERTISE FOR WIVES.
This is One Of the Causes Leading Up
to kuch Missry-A Pennsyl-
vania Wedding Story
Letter From Col.
T. n. White.

Editorial Correspondence Of the LnpaaR.
SOUTHAMPTON, L. l., N. Y, July A.
I noticed by Q New York paper to-
day that thirty-two divorces were
granted In three hundred and twenty
minutes by one Judge and that TWEEN
tystwo cases YER continued TIL the
next day. The same paper of the
same date contained the following;
"a Wisconsin man wants . wife and
isn't afraid to advertise for her. By
the terms OF his card the bride must
be net taller than s feet 4 inches, not
elder than twenty-three years and
not heavier than las pounds. Such a
girl, the advertiser intimatss, will be
just his size. In addition, he does
bis own cooking.
"a Michigan man also wants q wife,
and puts his notice in the paper. But
he 10 more brief and business like in
this expression than the Badger
statssman, The girl for bic heart
Unjust have $50 on arrival" Moth
ing said shout cooking weight or cOler
OF hair.
"We have here, in these advertise
ments, two notable additions to the
growing literature OF love and mar
riage. They are entitled to not the
less consideration because they CONS
from q section of the country pop
ularly supposed to be still ssgrowing
up" If they do not instantly attract
the speeches OF New York's favored
clubwomen, it will be because OF the
prevalence of weightisr topics con-
corning vacation days and the latest
wash goods for SUMMED dresses"
Sometimes we think this IL getting
to be q queer world; guess it is the
people. In the papers the other day
was the story of q Pennsylvania man
and woman who had been married
after q forty years. engagement. The
bridegroom was seventy years old,
the bride a few years younger. They
had been kept apart because the
woman promised not to marry while
her mother was alive, and the mother
lived to be almost a centenarian.
At fret blush this seems a pretty
story Of true love and loyalty. It lie,
rather the tale OF q foolish promise
foolishly kept and Of two lives less
than half lived. Faithfulnsss In the
face Of q real obstacle Ia one thing;
endurance of a trial unnecessarily i'm
nosed is very different. The strength
mind ND hsart shown by these two
.overs was worthy a eonsihing bst-
'sf than separation tin ttss twilight of
heir years.
At the same time IL they hadN ben
married forty years sooner they
might have been divorced two or
Ihrse times.
Il seem queer that We are not at
war with China. The Chinese Rm~
1assador IL still here and happy,
While TO all intents and purposes there
seems to be q war going on. Tho
othsr nations seem TO regard China ~
} different proposition from any other
country, but We guess In all Of this
huhbub the China set will be broken II
nothing else happens.
Questioned e to the situation Ia the
Senator Depsw said:
81 think the present condition Of
Affairs is dsplorable.
at will accomplish y : short time
what years of diplomacy would have
Jailed in. By this l mean that Of the
000, 600 Chinese less than / per cent
knew anything about America or
Americans until Dewey sailed 10 Ma
aila Bay and destroyed the Spanish ]
aest. What the orIentaIs considered !
N impossi5ility was accomplished in
: few hours. Since thsn they have
mad the greatest respect for Ne, and !
he present outbreak will give us : re-
aswed opportunity to show our
strength, and > market fer eur fast
products, both mechanical
md agricultural. :
"owing to our occupation sf Manila !
We are now within four days 81 Hong :
zsng. had &c not bean for Dewey we !
Esuld not have had even q cOaling :
between San FRANCHISES and
J.
81 de net think the present outbFsak
4 China win lead to any International {
iomplicatis=s, ss meme of the Powers 9
sznts China, and none of them could 4
yoveFn 1t, anyway. v
"This fact was brought foreibiy to-
ny mind By 9 Chiness student whs
'radustsd with ms at Yale. Speaking !
4 HE country he said: we have !
50. 100000 fearless people, who, with !
cod government. good discipline and
God modern armament. could easily
onqusF Europe Il
aUHfortunatsly, 1 told him, that t
hey lack al thFss requisites, which lie :
8 true to-day as It was then. liz
al do not lock for the trouble In the
'risnt to last longer than a few weeks,
nd in the end America will be bsns-
ted by the outbreak"
Ne matter what happens We do not
'azt any more ohiusmsn in this eeun-
y. II is all right 70 try TO oivllize
nd Christianize them, and they viii,
I csuFsss make good angels If God 20
rdeina IT. but when Il pine to trying
make good citizens Of the United
hates out Of them It Is another prop
sition. Somehow, We can't help from
sinking that's dead Ohinaman, while
, may not slways be good, IL soEae
star than . live me-. Distance lends
sehantmsnt, anyway.
z. N. WHITE.