Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-16
THURSDAY, JUNE IL, 1904.
CAN ONE LOVE TWO?

Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor OF
the Outlook, is seventy years old and
has been clergyman perhaps for
ilt5y yeas. says the Chicago Chron-
icle. He was the immediate success
Sor of ILany Ward Beecher in the
Plymouth pulpit ana for many years
literally filed the place of thai' q eat
thinker ana preacher He is rec
ogniZed all ever the land as an an
.ho.ity in morals, religion and soci-
ology, and is what might with pro-
priety be called "a philosopher.
It is Dr. Abbot high character
an influential position that impart
inse1est to correspondence which
he had lately and which was p'lb-
lished, anonymously OF course, in the
Outlook, with a married woman
whose hus sband had confessed to
her that he loved another woman, but
contended that he could love two
women very comfortably and that he
still loved his wife more than than
anvOne else The wife was crazy
with grief and wrote to Br. Abbott
lo comfort ana advice.
/: is regarded as somewhat sensa-
tienal in New York thai Dr.. Abbott
sht .ld have written TO this woman;
Ley aside your teas. hanish yoer
SORROWS anG retrrn TO your checT-
fuiaess: ard if your husband has
done wrong win him back TO right
aou5aess eTen i you have 10 pre,ead
"a s6me siatnea5 which you dc nc
,oei,' and hat re based this ad
Yicc Oh the theory tat possibly 4
ilas Band can love aEotaer woman
y.itaout Nroncin& lis VIE. The
following is his exact language
Is il w 1onG for a husband TO find
interest and attraction in the society
II a woman other than ais own wife?
+ Il wrong for vile To lEd in
terest and attraction in the socie-y
If man other than her own hua-
hand? T. may be. l. may not be.
II depends entirely upon the circnm-
srances. the conditions. the nature
snd degree Of interest and the at
q ton No one person. NO even
faithful ana loyal wife, can fill to
the full all the lie of any othos per-
son. though he be devoted huS-
~ "a ,,Ilt
they have May elements in them.
and they mus get their supply
tnronga many avenues and from
many springs All that a wife has
any right to ask is that kind cf loyal
" and devotion which puts her first
and supreme in his regard. A4
mat husband has right TO ask
OF his wife is similar supreme regard
If Your husband We're abandoning you
fer some other companion ii would
ne light that you should feel the
keenest sorrow and Indignation. But
III" reverse is the case. He has
discovered That his interest in and
attachment to another woman Il
woman apparently of uprigAtness
a..d I'M. gritty, is troubling you He
6as ceased all social relations With
hcr Is net this suaicien1 evidence
hat you have the supreme place in
his affections, and thai he gives YOU
tne loyalty waieh yoa have a right
10 ask?.'
This language means if it does
NOT plainly say llat some men can.
H"t be expected to be satisfied with
loving one woman, and that some
%GEcn cannot be expected to be sat
4Stied with loving one man: in Ger
tain conditions it is inevitable that
y ey shall love two, and if they
s2oAld 1t is not necessarily wrong
Tor them to do so. Whether they
nay go little father and love two.
three CT four was a question not in
'Clyed in this woman's case.
Here, indeed, is a surprising situa-
ton. An aged Christian minister
and philosopher calmly and publicly
defends the theory that man or
woman may love several persons of
the other sex at the same time, and
that it Is not immoral nor irrelig.
ious for husband and wife to do
30, which is, OF course, the precise