The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1903-12-04
DIVORCE EVIL
Mrs. ROerS Egg Theory a
New One.
Youthful Home Training Has its
Influence.

The divorce evil has been again
and again extensively, if not success
fully, discussed. The difficulty seems
to be in arriving at knowledge of
the exact source of the evil. Every
effect has its cause or causes. There
are certainly causes for the domestic
infelicity which has led up to so
many martial separations Students
of sociology and ministers of religion
have given time and thought to the
consideration of the divorce evil,
which has broken so many homes
and blasted so many lives.
Mrs. Rorer, who makes cook books
for American housewives, has lately
given it as her deliberate opinion that
the cause of so many divorces lies In
eggs, just plain, white little eggs laid
by that thrifty bsruyard fowl, the
hen. If fewer women ate eggs for
breakfast homes would, according to
Mrs, Rorer, be kept more tidy, hus-
bands would be more satisfied with
their helpmeets, and the quarrels OF
married people would be less fire.
quently heard in the land. Eggs,
she declares, being a heavy food,
bring about a general feeling OF lazi
ness In women and dyspepsia In men.
Mrs. Rorer may be right as to the
food value of eggs. The latter may
beget dyspepsia, but are hardly po-
tent enough to cause divorce. There
are cases In which divorce is the right
OF an aggrieved party. But the ma
jority OF applications for divorce are
based either on false or trivial grounds
aud reflect discredit on one or both
parties.
Most divorces are the result of had
moral training. They are due to
looseness, neglect and overindulgence
of bsdly-governed home. We refer
not so much to the homes they found
as to the homes In which eithe. one
or both parties were reared. In some
homes children are so loo sely brought
up as to become ungoverr able. They
have no sense of self-coutrol. With
out self respect themselves, they in
spire no respect in others. They are
utterly unfit for the responsibilities OF
life involved In a relation so impor-
taut as marriage. The girl who has
had either no home training, or the
example OF a badly-kept home only
for guide to married happiness, Is
certainly in danger of stepping into
welded misery, especially II she
marry young man without brains or
and such are, unfortunate.
ly, too numerous. Each of the part
ners Is, in such case. a detriment to
the other The very knowledge that
by means of the divorce court they
can easily throw off the matrimonial
yoke, makes their case more hopeless. |
They won't even try to be good.
There are too many instances OF
people who, having enjoyed the best
Of home training and excellent eduoa-
.ional advantages, make failure of
natrimony. But their subserviency |
% some degrading passion, their lack
II ioititude aud of character account
or the failure. If parents set before
the example of happy home
life, based on solid domestic virtue,
he effect would be invaluable in
divorce and in stabilitating
he peace OF families.
1t Is not the young people who look
With delight and pride at the home
lie OF father and mother who throng
he divorce courts. Every happy
ireside is fortress of matrimonial
Hiss and stalwart defense against
he diverse evil.-Louisvllle Herald.