The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-09-09
/ MARRIAGE AND'D|VORCE
SENT|MENTSBY WOMAN
Mutual Love She Very Properly
Regards AS Secret Of Mari
-: tai Harmony.

The Labor World received the fol-
lowing communication from Mrs.
Claire v. D'Oench of St. Louis, Mo-,
and now temporarily sojourning at
1410 East jefferson street, this city.
In the letter transmitting the ar
ticle. Mrs. D'Oench speaks very kind
ly of the Labor World. We appre>
ciate the compliment because we
think she is a good judge. she also
regards Duluth as the "graadest
place of many states which is an
other evidence Of her good judy
ment and taste. ~, j.
The Communication. .:"
The instructions given in the La
Dor World Of Sept. 2, by Judge Petit
of Chicago, in regard TO martial lap
piness is excellent If followed from
the very start Of married life and
kept up sacradly to the finale.
= Much love is required between two
people who are Joined together until
death do them part" Much love
AID patience are necessary between
two people wno must endure each
other for a life time. A unity OF
love and respect upon which friend
ship is founded, will hold a marriage
bond, but where there is not love,
there can be no harmony.
God bless the happy homes. and
God have mercy an such where
hatred and dicord have crept in,
where the poor. children look for
ward to the home coming of father
with horror and fear in anticipation
Of the bitter quarreling that will
ensue. What the children hear and
see, is not conducive to their hap
piness, it throws shadoW and a
blight over their lives forever, home
will not be a sweet memory to them
in years to come.
1t is marriage that should be gone
into with all care and caution and
not with a. rustic and gusi lust
for fun"
Divorce (and here I'm stepping
into hornets nest) should be made
easy where people have lived together
long enough to know there's no use
trying any longer. When two people
have come to the point of hating
each others very presence, it is
safer for them to be apart; not mere
! ly separated but-divorced with a
chance for another trial in the great
lottery. If both go through life min
us divorce what can their lives
amount to? Both are good, both
want love and home. God made us
a divorce is withheld or denied
| through low motives by one or the
| other party, the result may be-
bigammistic or they'll join the Free
Love" brigade a sore topic and
puzzle-problem with many who
| would like to solve the marriage and
happiness question to the satisfac-
ton of the whole world.
| If marriages are made in heaven
why do they produce so much of
the opposite on earth?
People can be married quietly
Why can they not be divorced quietly
before judge VINO would hear their
troubles as would a father confessor?
be fed with the details of the dis
solution Of marital partnership. The
| majority of people do not get d.
! vorce for the fun of it, that is left
for the idle rich who are used to
pose before the pblic eye.
! I know of a home or rather the
ruins of one, where the wife was 8
cultured little lady with an angelic
| dispositions; the husband was an NJ
d., very intelligent with the DISPOSE.
tons of a demon who had married
the girl for her money, and she, had
! married him for love, and therefore
submitted to mis- kicks, beatings
curses and oaths, because the Bible
says: Whom God hath joined to:
gether let no man put asunder." Oae
day when ne had abused her till Sal
fell as dead, he poured buckle,
Of water over i1er-while he fled-sh,
died, for away an a farm, away from
all her friends. The three children
think of home with horror and dis
gust for the father. To them home
Is mockery, and nightmare.
The word God, stands for Good
God is Love, and He surely wants u.
to have all his blessings while W,
live, but-what. man will ever pray
"God, thank thee for the shrev
thou gavest me for wife, or "Got
thank thee for the brute and ty
rant Of husband thou hast in.
fiicted upon me-
All the world wants love and peace
love and HON, sweet home.-Selah
! c. V. d.