The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-25

Head of Marist Order Says Young
People Should Be More Care
full In Choosing.
BLAMES WASTEFUL WOMEN
SAYS HE is GREATLY PLEASED
WITH THE WEST.

Causes of unhappy marriages were
discussed yesterday by Very Rev.
Father J. NJ. Portal, provincial of the
Marist Fathers. Father Portal is the
guest of Father M J. Guinan, president
of All HaIlows college. Father Portal
is on a tour of inspection of all the
Marist order foundations, one of which
Is All Hallows college. He will re-
main in this city until the middle of
the present week, when he will con-
tinue his journey of inspection. He
gees from here to Idaho and Montana,
and from there to st. Paul, MINI. Fa-
Their Portal makes his home in Boston.
Mass.
Recently I have seen an account in
| the local papers of the marriage of
| two questionable characters in the
! county jail. 1 regret to read of this
affair, for believe it can be product
| i've of no great good. I believe that
| such affairs as that marriage are pros
| titutiOns of the marriage vows and
| ceremonies. Marriage is a holy estate
It should never be regarded lightly. 1t
| should be entered into i'm a sober and
/ devoUt manner. What do those two
| individuals in the Jail know of rever-
eEce? Such marriages tend to make
| the divorce courts grind on unceasing-
~. The right-minded man who reads Of
such marriages will feel an utter Ioath-
ing for the holy estate if such as they
are allowed to enter it.
Favor d Censorship.
! eff such a thing were possible, and
not in conflict with the supposed rights
| and liberties Of man, I should like to
see established a marriage censorship.
Laws should be made restricting the
marriage of those unfit to undergo the
censorship. I suppose 1 am not en-
tirely alone in this view. but I am
nearly so. IF the legal aspect of mar
riage were more I'm accordance with
the religious, there would be fewer I'M
happy marriages, fewer so-called d.
! vorces. Men and women would learn
soon that when they take the oath of
allegiance for lifetime it does not
mean allegiance until one is tired of
the other There is no such thing pos
sible as a divorce. Death is the only
liberatoT. Let men decide after care
full consideration the question of hav-
ing one woman for a lifetime heIpmeet
and companion. Once decide that
question rightly and there would be no
necessity of divorce or separation.
Decries Women's Extravaganza.
The trouble today is that young
men seek that which they should not
have, an extravaSant wife, one used to
all the finerieS which much money can
supply. Young women are educated in
the wrong manner. They are reared
for the greater part in the lap of luxu-
ry. Doting parents, anxious to please
/ and make a nice show, give Their
T daughters too much of the friIIs and
furebelows of life. When the daughter
| marTies she expects these to continue
Failing to get them, she becomes peev-
ish, unreasonable and uncompanion-
able. The result is easy to see. She
2 begins to dislike her provider, and
l gradually they drift apart, the enc
? coming in the divorce court, so-caIIed
? How much better it would be if the
5 young man had sought d girl of hi:
: own class and financial standing. They
[ would be happy, for they would have
= the same standards of living"
Father Portal was for more thar
f twenty years pastor of a church il
Lawrence, Mass. He is French by
; birth and a man of wide observation
!: He is looked upon as one of the strone
I men in the educational field of the
Roman Catholic church.
Pleased With the West.
This is my first trip into the west.
said Father Portal. Il have beer
struck by the wonderful scenery o.
these grand mountains most of all
Living, as 1 have, in and around BOs.
I ton for so many years, I have had few
opportunities of seeing real mountains
It is a grand sight, indeed came t
Salt Lake from California. Out Their,
the verdure is a wonder and delight
to the eye. That long stretch of barrel
E country through which / passed on m!
r way here had the tendency only t,
! prepare me for the wonders of tn,
mountains.
/ Western men are the Virile types
| like them for their whOleheartedness
I | They may not be so spiritual as som,
' of the men in the east, but they are n,
! less men for all that. The rugged
= character of the west, the free, opel
life westerns live, makes western mel
resolute, strong, vigorous and witba
, men to be respected and loved. I an
glad Of this chance of knowing men o
: the west, and 1 can truthfully say thi
I shall not be my last visit"
| Speaking of the order of which he i
| the head in the United States, Fathe
| Portal said:
| "Our order is one of the modern or
CARNATIONS of the mother church. I
1 was founded ABOUT Sixty years ago i
Lyons, France, by Father Colin,
| ] leading Catholic educator. We devot
| ourselves to teaching the yOun
| preaching and missionary work in tn
/ educational field especially. We haV
twenty foundations in the Unite
| States. By a foundation l mean
| church school or building used by tn
| order. We are growing rapidly. NJ
/ province extends over the entire Unit
|! ed States and Canada. My sUccesso
rs provincial is now at the head of tn
/ Marist Fathers in Mexico. I have bee
/ in office but six months. This is m
4 first trip of inspection, and from VIVA
| I have seen, can say l am we
| pIeased. All Hallows college is doin
good work I am we'll pleased with it.
Another Smoke Suit.