The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-06-06
PARTED BY TRIPLES
HONEYMOON oUARasLS SOMETIMES
END IN SEPARATION.
Trivial Things That Have Strewp
the Sea of HEtrlnsony With the
Wrecks of Married Lives Before
the Voyage Was Fairly Begun.

"uS EAAEtg btSuu
TIE only reliable thing in marriage
is its uncertainty" Douglas Jerrold
and. ike maig sayings TO which one
may object, this aphorism contains al
least III elementary truth. 1t is q ca
rious fact that while some matrimonial
barks survive fifty or more years OF
voyaging and come safely into harbor
at last others are wrecked before they
| leave the still waters of the honey
moor.
This was the fate of a couple known
TO the writer who were married a few
years ago under the brightest Of aus
pices and for whom their friends pre-
dicted nothing but happiness. The very
first day Of the honeymoon their we'd
ded lives came TO an abrupt and tragic
termination from = the simplest OF
causes.
The bride had brought with her OH
the honeymoon a parasol of a vivid. aG
gressive red color, to which her hus
band objected. He begged her not TO
use it, but she persisted. The dispute
grew warmer and warmer, heated
words were exchanged. until at last in
an impulse Of anger the bridegroom
snatched the sunshade out of his wife's
hands and threw it into the sea.
Thus ended their life together. for
the indignant young wife took the mex
train to her mothers home, and from
that day to this the foolish people have
never met
In another case, known professional
ly to the writer. a dispute as to the
pronunciation of a word completely
wrecked the married life of a young
couple and brought their little tragedy
into the light of the law courts.
1t came out in evidence that during
the honeymoon the bridegroom had
ventured to correct the bride, who had
mispronounced a word at the breakfast
table. She resented the correction.
maintaining that she was right and her
lord and master wrong. The argument
thus begun ended in a bitter quarrel,
during which each disputant no doubt
said things which had much better
have been left unsaid, with the result
that the silly couple separated, each re
fusing to yield to the other.
Efforts were made by their friends
and relatives to heal the breach, but to
no purpose, and the little tragedy end
ed in a judicial separation.
1t seems almost incredible that peo-
pie should allow their lives to be wreck
ed by such trivial causes, but in both
these cases actual fact proves stranger
v than fiction.
More %ludicrous, if not more trivial,
was the cause that separated a couple
who were united less than q yea ago.
In a suit by q husband for b restitu-
ton of conjugal rights the wife de-
clared that it was impossible to live
with the plaintiff because he snored so
dreadfully."
But, surely" the judge remarked,
this is not q sufficient reason for stay
ing away from your h~usband?' You
would think it WIS, my lord" the lady
replied, IF you lived with him. |
could 1T get . wink of sleep in any part
of the. house. and even the neighbors
complained OF his snoring. 1t will kill
i.it - i tidN u 30 pdCh.
Unreasonable suspicious have CON
tributes! as much as any cause to the
Indc'!.S of husbands and wives, In one
domc%.;c tragedy which was unfolded
in tlv INV courts Il few years ago a
newly married wife had received a let
ter addressed in 4 masculine hand. The
husband, who was of u jealous temper
nn,nnt dame n1n1 70 % thn lntfnr
which the wife refused to show him.
High words ensued, and in a N
of uncomfortable passion the husband
struck his wife, with the result that she
went home TO her parents and refused
to live with him again.
The most tragic and dramatic part
Of the story was the lady's statement
in court that the letter which had
caused all the trouble had been writ
ten by her brother.
A clergyman told the writer that he
once married a rustic couple who's
matrimonial life terminated at the
church door at the conclusion of the
wedding ceremony.
1t appears that the bridegroom had
discovered that his bride had sold Ter
mangle. which had been one of the
chief inducements to marry her, and
she had made an equally disappointing
discovery that her swain had sold IL
handsome clock on which she had set
her heart. Thus were two lives wreck
ed by a manGle and a clock, however
strange and foolish it may seem.
In another case a young widow who
had married an elderly bachelor who
was reputed to be wealthy found
after her marriage that her false lover
had parted with every penny of his
fortune in purchasing al annuity for
his own life and was SO disguised
with his meanness that she left him
to the undisturbed enjoyment of his
annuity.
One recreant husband gave as a rea
son for declining 20 live with his wife
the discovery that the hair which had
constituted her chief charm in his eyes
woe 70 leo I'D that ha could - - r,,r