The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-05
TRIAL MARRIAGE BAD.
Brides Reason Dethroned and a Cerc-
mony Was Found Necessary.

! Denver, Jan. SIN testing to his
own satisfaction the desira bility of
mining life partnerships, an expert
ment dethroned a young woman's rea-
i son, which was restored when the trial
marriage agreement was abrogated in
raVor of wedding ceremony conduct
ca py a county judge at the court
house here.
The original compact entered into
! fourteen years ago in the south car
heartaches.
A man of mature years, whose first
wife died of tuberculosis and whose
second wife had fallen a victim to the
wires OF other men, met a pure mind
ed' confidfng, innocent young girl at
ms mothers home. This child of the
iano OF sunshine and flowers had been
;eIt an orphan. The mans mother
mad given her a home
AT the age of fourteen she was a
1alrly We'll matured young woman. nm
acQualnted with the mysteries of life.
4 ne man was kind to her even as wa
ms mother. She grew to love them
ooth, and they loved her The man.
however, was still nursing the heart
wound caused by the woman who had
olsgraced his name. He believed ali
women were bad, and he conducted
hlmseIf on that theory
He had seen the orphan girl devotion
INTO young womanhood, and he knew
tnat she was good and pure and all
lnat any man could wish for in wo-
man. Still, the old burn ate at his
Vitals, and, even knowing he wo1II6
not believe.
de waited year. The girl was fif-
Teen, ne almost thirty. He took ad-
vantage of her love and her vauth ans
Influenced her to enter into trial mar
rage compact, saying that as soon as
ne was convinced that she would ever
De true to him she should become his
lawful wife
harmony. There was no strife, no dis
cora between them. She loved with a
devotion that knew no wavering He
was thoughtful, considerate, loving
contoated till after the birth of their
nrst child Then her conscience
awakened and she began to plead that
the trial marriage become one in fact.
He promised that he would lead her
to the marriage altar before very long,
but demanded a more extended test of
her fidelity. Time went on and the
child died, the result of a deformity
that appeared at it's birth. Altogether,
six children resulted from the union.
Only two of these are living today. The
others failed to survive the mental or
physical weaknesses noticeable at BIRTH
Meanwhile the young woman became
nervous, mental wreck He awoke
to this appalling fact one day after she
had been suddenly transformed from
gentle, loving affectionate mother into
perfect fiend of passion and hatred.
Murder was lurking in her heart. She
would kill the two children left to her
OF the six she had mothered. Then she
would end her own miserable existence.
She made the attempt. He was there,
and. by a great effort prevented the
terrible crime.
After being treated at two eastern
sanitariums and receiving no relief she
was brought to Denver by a relative.
An eminent specialist undertook to
brush the clouds of despair from her
overweight brain. He learned the
story of her miserable life. He knew
that her heart muct be healed before
her reason could be permanently re-
stored.
Letters from the man to the doctor
proved that despite his refusal to join
with her in the holy bonds of real we'd
ding, he loved her devotedly. After much
correspondence the Denver specialist
prevailed upon the man to come to
Two days after his arrival in Denver
the man and young woman accompanied
by DR.. Fisher, secured a marriage IL
cense, and little later Joined hands be-
fore a judge of the county court and
took the vows prescribed by the law.
And so the marriage by trial with its
accompanying sorrows, its misery. its
heartaches, became shadow of the
past. The young wife's mind has been
cleared of its cobwebs of bitter and dis
appointing thoughts. The man says
that a trial marriage compact cannot
but end In failure He is a different
being today. He can never repay the
debt of gratitude he owes to the spe-
cialist, he declares, in which statement
the now happy wife most heartily con-
cu-s.