The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1909-08-28
The A|inony Craze.
"a plot, a damnable plot. -

| stricken from all court records, as a pu.
trid thing, all vile, and made obsolete in
toto; its vicious usage and prerogative
should be ruthlessly snatched from
staining the ermine of the judiciary, its
cause and wake to receive the anathe-
mas of all iustice-loving humanity, and
our vocabulary from the English Ian
guage should throw pail of gruesome
glum and gloom, "sack cloth and ashes''
about it and shove it off the stage OF
life and eternity. Let it depart into
"outer darkness, where there shall be
weeping and wailing and gnashing of
teeth''.
Bury it in nameless tomb,
With its CHASTITY gloom;
And over all, over all,
Let the reptiles hiss anu cIawii
If the disioining parties haye any of
this worlds goods, at the time of such
necessary legal proceedings, they should
be divided equally, and the court costs
should be borne by each alike for such
dissolution; and the progeny, if any,
should be divided equally as to sex and
number-save by mutual consent, then
all in the custody of the mother. For
no real character with a Christian spirit
this side of fiction would want to San-
descend "to hang on to the coat-tail''
of former spouse, of whom it had
been necessary to get legally rid, and
then act the role of a pensioner, l am
quite sure; and | cannot but conceive of
the" bitter pill unto gall" as viewed by
the reluctant, begrudging, resenting
payer. If such pensioners must be al
lowed to exist now, while the present
assembled Legislators are at work and as
we'll are being accused of being the
greatest humorists that have ever filled
our legislative halls, as judged by some
of the bills proposed; why not let the
State or the Government pay these in
IDENTITIES, as for our other battle
SCARED veterans Marriage is patri- |
otic institution and for the good of the |
common country as we'll as. others, and |
is also as susceptible to the forked |
tongues of misfortune, shipWreck, in |
sundry ways, as is the entire State or |
which, after all, are but a |
of homes and kindred in
terests.
''But blame us women not, - if some |
appear
Too cold at times; and some too CAV
and light.
Some griefs gnaw deep. some woes
are hard 10 bear. i
Who knows the past? And who can
judge US right2
AS to divorces, the occasional, YES. |
absolute necessity, until the |
pu.4dps. will always exist. |
1t is freak in the fabric, frailty and |
fallibility OF human nature, ever SUBJ J
ieQt to those dual influences of 81
the flesh and the devil-as pitt l.
Christ's all-atoning p ii against
mercy ard bnr~ ,.ood and Gods
shouId ling desire that none
go astray or perish. Diverging
opinions, evolutiOnizing with the on
sweeping years and their influences, at
times, produce deep-rooted principles,
as on holy ground, patent and potential,
for divorce. To resist such, is but to
"kick against the pricks,' and the plain
duty stands out boldly, vividly, impreg-
nable as the Rock Of Gibraltar, and
we must bravely bow to the inevitable,
though years may have been squan-
dered in the futile quest for an AMIGA
bic adjustment through reconciliation
and whilom congeniality. Take for an
example a case at point, where the hus-
band and wife, through different creeds
OF religion, into which state they, in
part, consciously or unconsciously,
change subsequent to their marriage,
the one SO changing, though innocent
of criminal Intent, yet cOgnizant OF the
III hnr;l, ~ c1pn onf fol 1.-Two for
Tered creed, may create through the
adoption Of unpalatable 'lsms' for the
other equal member of the household an
embitterment, antipathy, for the cause
eSpoused, and all its Objectionable here
sizes, that would batter down the doors
of contentment, break all the bonds OF
conjugal love divine, snap IN twain links
of erstWhile pure affections golden
chain and hoist forever the "apple OF
discord", instead. The one thusly
wronged would consider his or her home
despoiled by breach of trust, resented
all the more strenuously possibly on ac-
count of children upon whom deep and
passionate love was layished, and now
all hopes were made forlorn. For the
marital life, of d necessity, must be one
OF very close proximity, full to the very
III LII anu L uilIiilS 3 OFCi NIOI eilO pCdCh-
es and cream of mutual confidence,
sympathy, love and tenderness, all un-
ceasing, and really having halcyon
happiness only when rendering such
blisSful service. Otherwise here, too,
''The wages of sin is DEATH.
"Oh, what tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!'
Ma oro,, o-xo,,r ,ool Cbrict;o,, to
ever much they would wish to pose as a
martyr, in lieu of divorce, would COM
NIT the sin of parentage to further off
spring, under these adverse circum-
stances, could stand the lashing furies
of bowling storms and seething whirl-
pools thus engendered. Home-one of
the sweetest words in all the vast ampli-
tude OF the English languagel - so
cord, would be unbearable, a very holo-
caust and cauldron of flaming hell,
indeed, methinks, and a divorce would
be the one and only humane door to be
thrown aiar for the rescue of both, a
most righteous act of court and jury, :
and God-send to the torturing appli-
cants, and as well their reasonable duty
to society, establishing absolute free
dom thereafter. "Give me liberty, or
give me death!"
Gas music and splendor
Survive not the lamp and the Lutte,
The hearts echoes render
No song when the spirit is mute
No song but sad dirges
Like the wind through the ruined cell,
Or the mournful surges
That ring the dead seaman's s knell.,