Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-25

ting novel ideas on marriage and
- home life The latest dcllveruncs
on the subject comes from Mrs. Parsons
wife Of Congressman Parsons OF New York
and daughter Of Henry CLOVIS. the banker
She Is a doctor Of philosophy and pro
lessor OF sociology in one OF the Now York
colleges. In her book, entitled THE Fam
uy," Mrs Parsons makes startling sugges-
lions about experimental marriages as a
means OF wardlng of marital infelicitles.
which are sharply criticised and condemned.
Regarding marriages on trial she says: 1T
would. therefore, seem well. from this point
Of view, to encourage early trial marriages,
the relation to be entered into with view
TO permanency but with tho privilege OF
breaking It II proved unsuccessful and in
the absence OF offspring
THE dogma that marriage H. an unques-
tionabie sacrament and the dictum that It
IT. merely a survival of q past form Of
property holding are both dams to proper
solution Of the social question" says the
author.
III lndividualism and altruism are TO be
feeonciied in the view that child-bearing
and rearing is the most important OF all
social services" she says, the deslrability
of change in many social relations in and
out Of the family will have to be frankly
faced, and, IT necessary, new adaptations
must DO welcomed
Might it not be we'll" she asks, Ito EN-
body in marriage licenses data about the
personal health and character of the bride
and bridegroom, likewise a certificate of the
brides previous training in child care? Such
a record would be a partial proof Of the
matrimonial eligibility or noneligibility OF
tho license holder. favorable record
would enutle the holder to a place upon
the matrimonial white list
The prostitute class is on the increase in
all civilizations. Increasing tendency to
late marriages and celibacy are among the
chief causes of this increase.
There is A tendency for the segregation
of this class to become less and less
marked.
In all civilizations divorce is increasing.
A large majority OF divorces are obtained
by women. Legal causes for divorce tend
TO multiply. Public opinion should tend to
condemn prostitution or adultery in men as
IN women"
DR.. Morgan Dix, rector OF Trinity church.
New York City, I'm a sermon last SUNDAY
severely condemned the sentiments Of Mrs.
Parsons. He said in part: We are con-
stantly hearing these days from the ex-
IRENE radicals, who are in every conceiy-
able way pushing their schemes of social
revolution. And II is hard to say what is
the worst OF the changes they would make
in our social relations. But probably the
worst form of their radicalism is that
about marriage. They would abolish mar
riage with all its ties, break up the home
or provide form Of home not worthy of
that name; they would have all marriage
cease and the children, IL there be any
children from the strange forms of union
which they propose shall belong not to the
animals which produce them, but to the
STATE.
This is not the only scheme Of this
book to which is given wide circulation.
but. II is the worst of series or social
Views promulgated by people who are
anarchists not lnterfered with by the DO.
llccs
II there is one place which should be
and. is sacred. 1t is. above ALL the home
the Christian home, where the parents are
bound together by sacred obligation
where they have taken upon themselves
VOWS made sacred by the office of the
church and tie formed which should
never be broken but by death. There the
child is surrounded by that love and care
which shall bring 1t forth a good and )
useful man or woman.
THE love of children is instructive will
all humanity. and 1t Ia a monstrous thought
that human beings should desire not L
bring children into the world, should seek
to avoid the bearing of children lest they
bring trouble upon the parents. Why sir
against the children is deadly. whatsoever
shan offend one OF these little ones it wer,
better than a milestone shall be hanged
about his neck and he be cast into tn,
depths OF the sea-
And It is the duty OF us as churchmer
to nurture and foster the children Tn,
ehHch in it's organization Is very careful
in educating the children. not to vocation'
WHICH lead to worldly success, but tn,
way Of the life to come"
Decadence OF Husbands.
Several causes contribute to the deca.
denee Of husbands, writes Tom Mason ir
1Iarper's Weekly. There is, of course. nC
lack of raw material TO get at the la
mentable truth we must go beyond this
Weemust anayze conditions.
Fer one thing ii can be affirmed quite
positively that the cost of proposing /,
notlwhat IT once was There used to be 3
JOY about proposing TO a girl, a sense oil
excitement, variety OF sentimental emo
tioH which is now no longer permissible
except, possibly, in remote country dis
triots. The truth Is that girls know 81
much more about love than they did tina
the glamour II gone. Few girls there ar,
now who "tremble with excitement" who's,
faces are suffused" with bushes. who's,
eyes drop" who 'murmur" softly. an,
Whe Sigh" deeply. Indeed It Is gcttin.
TO be perfectly safe to propose to any cir
without embarrassment-that il 20 say
Without any other embarrassment than ",
naturally always must feel in the presenc,
OF 9 superior being The consequence il
that It isn't nearly so much fun
Te select form OF proposal origina
enough to arouse any girl of today woul,
taN.the ingenuity Of an Edison In the mas
many men proposed for the simple spor
OF ~ and got married afterward becaus
they couldn't help themselves But now
when we are longing to make ardent fool
OF ourselves, and are forced to run M
against an educated blonde with an i've
hcard-that-all-before" look, what's the use
There is also another side to the husban,
problem besides the sentimental. and TIM
Is the financial Keeping a wife IN abou
twice the style to which she il accustomed
ana nothing short Of this will dds an *
pensive business Unfortunately, wives ar
not good collateral One cannot take nj
new wife 20 his bank, no matter how gilt
edged lac himself may consider her. an
put her up on a lO-per-cent margin. Will
he proceeds to furnish her dressmaker'
house with antique furniture from the pro