El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-30
Dorothy Dir On Some 8. Cause; uses.
No. 4When Replen the Lamp Of Affection

| q TILL another matrimonial path
~ leads to the divorce court that
might be placarded at every step
| Indifference, Lack of Appreciation.
Lack of Tenderness
The moralists who inveigh against
divorce always speak of it as something
that people do lightly; as If one got a
divorce daily and as joyously as one
! purchases q red automobile Nothing
could be further from the truth
Before the most frivolous bring them
selves TO the point of sundering the tie
that is universally regarded as the
most sacred and binding on earth: be-
fore they take the terrible RESPONSE
bility Of breaking up a home, perhaps.
of parting a child from its father or
tearing a babe out of its mothers breast
or unwinding little arms from about
their own necks; before they even open
the door of their closet and parade
their skeleton before a rfbald world,
they have gone through an inferno of
suffering for which nobody gives them
credit
They have seen love fail: they have
eaten of the dead sea fruit of bitter
disappointment; they have seen their
Castle Of Dreams in ruins about them;
they have endured quarrels and bfcker-
ing. and strife. and tOrtrring jealousy,
and have lain awake long nights
threShinG over and over. in an endless
round. the difficulties of the situation
before they brought themselves to the
point Of using the surgeons knife OF
divorce TO cut away the cankering sore
N their lives.
A Wound That Never Heals.
But. Just as the most skillful opera
ton leaves forever it's scar. so does the
divorce leave ones life MANNED and dis
figured with a wound that never quite
heals. and that, at times. throbs under
it's cicatrice.
No. people do not get divorced for
fun; and the great question is: What
Is 1t that leads up to divorce? What
Is II that brings a husband and wife
who have once loved each other to the
point where they can no longer endure
each other?
1 believe one reason that the light
goes out upon the household altar as
often as it does is because both men
and women forget to replenish the lamp
of affection with OIL 1t is carelessness.
indifference, or lack Of appreciat ton
that kills love as often as anything
else.
The life of the average married
couple is dull, hard, monOtoaOus
grind The man is chained like a galley
slave to his desk or hiSe shelves. or
his pick. Day in and day out year
after year, he tolls with all his strength
Just to keep a roof over his family's
head. food in their mouths. clothes on
their backs. After his monthly bills
are paid he has literally nothing for
himself He is as much shut away
from liberty of action. freedom. amuse-
menfs as if he were locked up in the
hulks-
The woman works equally hard. She.
too. is the slave of circumstances. She |
cooks meals that are scarcely eaten be-
fore others must be cooked again. She /
sweeps floors that must be swept over /
again the next hour. She darns stock /
ings that are worn out, and must be |
darned again She exhausts her in |
tellect in the frantic endeavor to make /
one dollar do the work of two
Daily, Dresry Drudgery.
Little children cling to her skirts and 1
make thousand ceaseless calls upon l
her Nerve racked. body weary. she /
goes through the endless. daily druid /
gerry Of domestic toll, that leaves no |