Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-14

ldyll Roughly Shattered.
Alas for the frailties of human ma.
ture and the erratic whims of the ar
tistic temperaments. But a few
months passed until the artist was a
defendant in magistrates court,
charged with having laid violent hands
on his affinity The matter was
hushed up and things were quiet again
for 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
root 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 acquaintance
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 a 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 a runaway
elopement Of a staid old organist and
school teacher with the prettiest girl
in the choir in a western village.
Illicit Love Above Lies Work.
He left a wife and three children
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
sprung by the disappearance of the
pastor of one of the richest and most
exclusive churches of Long Island.
With him had disappeared a commune
cant of his church, young woman
of unusual beauty and a member of a
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 $4,000, 900
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 as
a 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 a little visit after an absence of a
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, maya
zines and other publications are full
of articles on this evil from almost
every imaginable source. Hundreds Of
reasons are being assigned in editori-
ais and special articles for the tenden-
cy to ignore or shatter the bonds OF
Hymen. One commonly given by some
of the women writer's 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 appropriating GER
tain jobs of the men who were sup
porting families, have come to the con
clusion that they are ambitious to at
tain economic independence.
Another thing frequently insisted or
by women writer's and women think
ers alike is that modern man is tickle
beyond all understanding. They claim
that the deathless love, sung by the
poets and dilated upon by the ro
mancer, simply does not exist. That
most marriages, after all, are founded
upon convenience and habit. Women
are generally lauded as being far the
more faithful and long suffering OF the
two sexes. The correspondents col
umns of the metropolitan dailies arc
full of letters from wives who write
tearfuiiy that their husbands are
wearying of them, although they have
been married only a year or two. The
burden of the pleas that come W
from among these worried wives
seems to be the old poetical phrase
slightly changed, Love is Of mans
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