The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-12-29
(COmmunica ted
DIVORCE

for which divorce VIII be granted
That subject has been, and i
yet agitating this country to al
extent that borders the line 0
hobbism, and thousands have
written their opinions and sug'
gested their ideas for the solution
of the problem, which today is
being figured out by both church
and laymen. Then. why should
not the writer have an opinion or
the subject of divorce? that he
may differ from all others, and
will certainly not agree with the
majority who have preceded him,
there is no doubt-if differing is
sinful, then the scribbler of this
communication is not SHINING to a
greater extent towards those with
whom he differs, than the good
church people and laymen are
SHINING against him. After all.
even the thoughts of men are parts
and parcels of the words evolu-
tion-the thoughts and theories of
our fathers, and even what they
honestly practiced would not fit
the high standard Of our days.
Ask your ladies if they are still
willing to submit to the ideas OF
past centuries? are they willing to
endure that inequality from men,
taught in the following Biblical
lessons:
"Thy desire shall be to thy hus-
band, and he shall rule over thee,"
(Genesis.)
"Wives, submit yourselves to
your own husbands" (says Col
lossians.)
GAS the church is subject unto
Christ, so let the wives be to their
own husbands in everything,"
(says Ephesians.)
"Let your women keep silence
in the churches" (says Corinth-
ians.)
"Ye wives, be in subsection to
your own husbands" (says Peter }
"Let women learn in silence
with all subjection,' (says Tim
othy.)
Is there Franklin belle.
young or old matron, who has not
evoluted from these old ideas? Ii
a doubt exists in the mind of some
ST Mary parish husband, be he
senator or policeman, let him at
tempt to enforce the discrimina-
tons of the earlier centuries and
we will wager, that notwithstand-
ing the brilliant record made by
the boys of this parish in the past,
that the submission he will meet
with from his better-half, evil
take the starch clean out of him."
So it is today. or at least should
be about divorce. Marriage is
egal contract and nothing else
he divinity cast must be elm
mated from it, and the poetry and
romance practiced in these homes
where the union Of man and wo-
nan is the ideal one, and thank
God, it's the case of the majority
If marriages, and to realize which,
Ill young men should guide them
selves by the advice of a great
and humanitarian,
who has told them: ''To so shape
heir lives as to win the love of a
good woman-build for her a
a fire on the hearth,
md fill with JOY the heart of her
who rocks the cradle of your
,fild, aud she will saturate your
life, even in the humblest cottage,
With love and sunshine"
But when man and woman find
tut that their contract has become
ntolerable, through the frailties |
II either party or both, the law |
hould lie as prompt in separating
hem as it was in binding them in
Amendments and provisions
hould be made in the exceptional |
asses. When children have been
,orn to the couple asking for a
livorce, that case should become
serious one, responsibility |
lpon the court to see that full pro-
,ision be made for those beings,
in every respect, and
Who had not been consulted as to
heir coming into this world. All
should be made in
private courtroom, from which
he masses should be refused adj
nittance, and there in the solitude
# that privacy, the soiled linen of
he unfortunate family should be
washed, instead of, as it is now
to do 80 in open court,
eeding those around whose hearts
h. blood is as dry as dust, with
he nauseating details common in
most trials, thereby lessening, if
lot entirely ceasing to satisfy
h at morbid curiosity which seems
o be happy only at the shame
md Grief rf the nartieS on trial |