The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-01-13
|DAN CUPID WOULD NOT
| STAND FOR SUCH LAWS
OPPOSED TO A DOCTOR REGu.
LATINO BUSINESS.

Most important Social Question
Is Accused Blight of Divorce,
Says aheta chiIde Door; Caring
for ranks Who Call.
st. Paul, January 11.--Lycurgus
and his laws for conserving the phys.
ical prominence of Sparta were all
right for that ancient Greek citadel
wherein the congenially weak were
slaughtered. but it would never do
ANS representative club women.
The suggestion of DR.. David Walsh.
a scientist of some note on the other
side, made recently to the Royal d.
vOrce commission, that marriages be
regulated by law and requiring that
all men and women contemplating
matrimony shall be placed In pos
session of a certified report of the
physical defects of his or her intend
ed life partner and their family
could never be enforced, they say.
Discussing DR.. Walsh's iconoelas.
tic idea, which threatens to turn
Dan Cupid into an automatic vend-
ing machine for the distribution OF
health certificates, Mrs. Lillian Has
brouck, prominent club woman, said
yesterday it was impracticabie.
1T will never CO." she said. "be.
cause it is directly opposed to hui
man nature, human instincts. You
can hurry the flow of the human
tide forward, but you cannot swim
against it. That is what DR.. Walsh
with his suggestions would be trying
to do" ~
Accused Blight of Divorce. -
Since slavery ended Rheta Childe
Door, says the most important So
cial evil Of the United States is the
accused blight of divorce.
Within the past twenty years
$4,000 divorces have been granted
in the United States-two-thirds, of
them to women" she says This
means that in face of the anathemas
of the churches, in the face of ira
dition and prejudice, excepting In
the great majority of cases, the re-
sponsibility of earning their own liv-
ing, more than 100000 women have
repudiated the burdens of uncongen-
ial marriage.
This is the most important social
fact since the slavery question was
settled. The. prevalence OF divorce.
shows that women are no longer
satisfied with the existing conditions
of marriage, and the number of d.
vorces, great as it is, by no means
indicates the number of women who
are unhappily married. Many women
will endure unhappiness to the end.
Who Are the Sufferers?
"Any way We look at it, the eco
nomic dependence of women and chill
dren seems a mistake. A man COM
mits crime. Who suffers most
when he goes to Jail? A man is Kill
led or injured in industry. His FAM
lily is plunged into instant want A
panic throws hundreds of thousands
of men out of employment. The
community at once has hundreds of
thousands of women and children on
its hands. They haven't done any
thing to deserve pauperism. The
women have been doing the work
nature gave them to do. They have
been producing new human beings.
They have been rearing citizens, the
greatest wealth community can
munity owe them in return for the
service?
Since the attempted assassination
of Mayor Gaynor last August as he
was about to sail for Europe, the
high sign of everlasting friendship Is
handed out to all suspicious looking
callers at the mayors office in city
hall these days. Gallagher, who
fired three shots at the mayor on
the deck of the Kaiser Wilhelm Der
Crosse, resented more the uncere-
monious treatment accorded him at
the city hall than he did the loss of
his job and believing that it was In.
spired by the city chiefs executive
resolved to kill him. When a wan
dering actor called at the city hall
the other day and proffered a check
for $4,000 for the purchase of
Deep Wells" the mayors country
place at st. James, L. l., he was re-
ceived with open arms by the at
tendants and ushered to a seat while
a secret telephone call was rung In
for an ambulance. Before the actor
was aware that the cards were being
stacked against him he was escorted
to a buss and in jig-time was in tho
psychopathic ward of Bellevue.
There an examination disclosed the
fact that the visitor to the city hall
was sufferer from dangerous
form of insanity.
No End of Hubbub.
No. end of hubbub has been stir.
red up over the reception of Miss
Lily Maud Allen, a pretty English
girl, as a member of the Pillar OF
Fire. strange sect which had re-
Gently formed a settlement outside
OF the city. Through its literature
which it has circulated in all parts
of the world, the community, it is
claimed by the family of the young