The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-09
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HER TEACHINGS
Mary MacLane Has a Sister
Who Believes in Marriage
ceremony.
AFTER BRIEF ENGAGEMENT
She Becomes the Wife of a
Young Newspaper Man.

New York. Nov s-The New York
World says;
when = man and woman love one an
ether. that Is enough. That is marriage
: righteous rite Is superaous. And if the
nan ard woman live together without the
lcve. the ceremony in The world can
make it marriage.
I shah never make use Of the mar
riage ceremony I hereby register vow.
Devil 10 that effect
This is what Mary MacLane. Of Butte.
Mon. put in The story Of Nary Mac
s Lane about marriage.
! But though size breathed forth this
ring message 10 2 rather married world
.er sweeping reform failed 70 begin at
heme-for last Week her sister, Dorothy
AacLane, went quietly 10 a clergyman
aid was married 10 Louis N. Thayer. OF
Butte.
But Miss Dorothy did the best she could
u mitigate the Circumstance and achieve
Eer sisters ideals. inasmuch as she had
Inowa her husband for TWO days only.
ard was at the time engaged 10 another
nan. These circumstances ought 70 sol
ace her authoress-sister Tor the glazing
Internationally OF which member Of
her family has been guilty.
There is. according 10 Mary MacLane
II her book. one thing only 70 account
for the marriage Of her sister That
MacLane should marry at all she viii
doubtless trace 10 the source or all the
Cdary) alone. OF I'll its members. is High
land Scotch
4 am she wrote peculiarly Of the
MacLane blood which IS Highland Scotch. /
Ny sister and brothers inherit the traits
OF their mothers family. which OF Scotch
Lowland descent
There IS absolutely no sympathy be-
tween my family and me. There can
never be IN short. they are Lowland
Scotch. and 7 an AIscLane
So she IS OF the Lowland Scotch Mac
1anes-Dorothy. who IS older than her
somewhat famous sister-disdaiued the
Highland way Of doing. and went away
and vas married. But the love story.
OF which her sisters book-p philosophy
veuld probably disapprove. is a roman
&c one. for all that.
Dorothy MscLane. according 10 the ac-
scount Of her given by Mary TO the peo- I
gle in her mysterious east. is. LowIand /.
or not. thu beauty or the MacLane fam /
fly
she is not 50 wei set up as ]" said !
Mary MacLane modesry, and she has
not ny beautiful hair But she IS sweet +
sweet-sweet, she il pretty. She wears +
q red crepe dress. When she goes down
the street in her red crepe dress every
one looks at her. 1t Is nor at the dress
they look although it IS prettier than
most Of mine-but they look at Dorothy. /
She is pretty in red crepe saw a girl (
one day who looked Ike Dorothy, 50
! talked with her"
In the days when Mary NacI-ane was !
nineteen years old and was writing the
story OF herself she said her sister Dor +
othy. in spite OF her prettiness. was MOTH /
Ing to her
They are with me stiil she wrote. "a 4
mother, a sister and TWO brothers
They also are nothing 70 me
They do not understand me any more
than If I were some strange live curios-
fly. as which I dare say they regard
ne
Between them and me there is no
tenderness, no sympathy. no binding ties
Would It affect me in the least. DO VOC
suppose II they should all die tou1or-
rcwg
As time went on however out there
CT the Butte sand and Barrenness Mary
MacLane and her sister drew somewhat f
nearer TO sether. or II may be thar after
Miss MacLane g0t IN the mysterious east
she found that she and her sister were
nore 10 each other than she had known
Just as the sand and barrenness became
dear the day she left them
At all events in Boston after she had
net and talked Rith a young woman. she
suddenly remarked; I should Ike TO
talk you over with my sister tonight
Always at aisht, she went on my
sister and ] go Up 10 cur LITTLE box q
q room. We have Little sitting-room
Together. which is a little box Of q room.
There We let down our hair and tank
stopt the people that nave been good
&c rs and bad "a Us
i know Just what we would say about
you
Ny sister would let down her hair and
L %, at ne and smile ard say. ~Oh. N.Y.
And I would Jet dov1 M hair and
-~~A al --.l S-'-~- --'~ S-----r A-t~a asa Soy
'Oh. NY
i can hear Us nov. talking about
you
II was eyi5snt that there was e-tab-
lished certain common ground between
the Highland Scotch ard the Lowland
n.emhers Of the AIacIane family af Butte
But for al that The doctrines concern
iug the marriage relation promulgated by
Mary NaeLane found 10 echo tn the
heart OF her elder sister Ana SO while
&sry MacLsne IS IN the mysterious east
Dorothy has become thar which her SIS
ter Sc scorned-a wiTe She has become
che OF tbs ~ahonlinshle creatures whom
Mary MseLane's 'story- talks about Ike
this
People are aboninsbie creatures
Under each roof i've man and
woman. Joined together b. that very slen-
der thread. the marriage cereuony-and
their ehildreu
How many Of the mlove each othsr7
Ne two IN s hundred. warrant The
marriage ceremony Is their one miserahis
petty. Paltry excuse fo- living together
This marriage rite. It appears. is estan
Esec as CLOAK 10 cover world 81 rather
shameful thirEs
Miss Dorothy MacLans was untiI last
week employed as assistant in the Butte
T1blio Library. lately a member OF the