The Green Forest tribune., 1909-10-15
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matter was carried through with the most brazen disregard of public opin- ion that it is possible to imagine. The artist and the artists affinity" went down to the docks and said good-by to the wife when she sailed for Europe with her children. However, the gen tleman paid the usual penalty of the pioneer. His house was wrecked by an angry mob of his neighbors and he was rather roughly handled him. self. But the popular indignation soon died out and the artist and his "affini- ty" settled down to an existence de- clared to be as idyllic as a poets dream or an artists vision
 ldyII Roughly Shattered.
 Alas for the frailties of human na- ture and the cratic whims of the ar tistic temperaments. But a few months passed until the artist was defendant in magistrates court, charged with having laid violent hands on his affinity" The matter was hushed up and things were quiet again for a short time, and then the final explosion came. The affinity" went home to her mother, considerably sad der, and it is to be hoped somewhat wiser than when she left the parental roof tree. The artist lost but little time in securing another "soul-mate." and in order to be quit of the sneers and revilings of their acquaintances in America they set sail for Europe. The disillusioned affinity" with her notions of platonic love considerably shaken, has recently returned from Europe under an assumed name. To her intimate friends she has confided that the artist is monument of con- ceit and responsiveness.
 But the experience of the first of the affinity seekers has had no notice able effect on others inclined to throw aside their marital VOWS for a pretty face or a stalwart form. The germ of material unrest began creeping westward, stopping to cause wife de- sertion in Pittsburg and runaway elopement of staid old organist and school teacher with the prettiest girl in the choir in western village.
 Illicit Love Above Life's Work.
 He left wife and three children hind him when they made their mad dash away from responsibility and so- cial correctness. Shortly after the escapade of the artist had faded from the public mind a new sensation was htyt of th,, pastor of one of the richest and most exclusive churches of Long Island. With him had disappeared communi- cant of his church, young woman of unusual beauty and member of wealthy family. This minister had thrown aside his priestly robes and given up reputation that he had been years in building, and the two had dis appeared, leaving to the mercy of the public the deserted wife.
 They vanished into the S0,000,000 other inhabitants of the union and were not heard of for months. Finally they were discovered in San Francis co, where the unfrocked minister was trying to earn living for himself and his "soul partner" by working IS painter and paper hanger. Even the staid and orthodox followers of the ancient Hebrew faith are not ex- empt. The recent arrest of former St. Louisan by his wife when he made her little visit after an absence of couple of years shows that the rabbis of the faith of Isaac and Abraham are not able to stem the current that is making inroads on the morals of their faith. This Jewish Don Juan had a wife in each of the three principal colonies of his people in this country New York, Chicago and St. Louis all having been the scenes of his mat rimonial adventures. He has placed three marriages to his credit or dis credit But he was so unsatisfactory as husband that his St. Louis wife. after arresting and charging him with bigamy, had him released and gave him $50 with which to get out of town.
 Some Reasons Advanced.
 The columns of newspapers, maga- zines and other publications are full of articles on this evil from almost every imaginable source. Hundreds of reasons are being assigned in editori als and special articles for the tenden- cy to ignore or shatter the bonds of Hymen. One commonly given by some of the women writers and majority of the men is the loss of the feeling among the men that women need pro- lection.
 The woman's right movement has been coming to the front very rapidly in later years and mankind having seen women calmly aprrorriating cer-