The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
INFANTA EULALIA'S BOOK
GIVES VIEWS ON DIVORCE

sterile and invalid and inlaid with hate?
Divorce suppresses those gratuitous in
suits offered to domestic love.
The enemies of divorce contend that
1t is the destroyer of the family. That
Is untrue, for the family no longer exists,
| Judging frankly and sincerely Where
IS the family of the ancient time. since
| there has come into force the law Of ma
Jortty to the liberated child, since COM
Fulsory education has diminished the
moral responsibility Of parents without
sensibly ameliorating the conditions of
the masses; since in this day of higher
education, boys and girls become quickly
strangers to the authors of their being
and are held accountable to the state for
their education?
Family Not Strongly Bound.
IF hypocrisy were at the bottom Of
these objections, the fact would be quick
ly recognized that nothing remains of the
family as a sacred institution.
Yes; divorce is useful, necessary. and
moral, but il should become so even more
than 1t Is, submitting to many modifica-
tions 1t Is necessary that divorce nv
mutual consent should become the rem
edy for those ills which dishonor the hu-
man soul Divorce as it exists to-day
does not bring an adequate solution Of the
riage.
1T is inadmissible. inhuman. immoral
mat a human being who for twenty
years has suffered patiently for the hon
or Of his or her children should be con-
demned to pass the rest of his or her
days in cOncubinage. without the right
TO create new hearthstone and to
consecrate by marriage that devotion
and affection which were cures for old
Ills; to live again in happiness, Great
Ing anew moral and social obligations"
WOmnn's Independence.
The infanta devotes a chapter to The
complete Independence of Woman"
summing up her conclusions thus:
without going to the length of ad-
Vocating that men and women should he
absolutely equal socially and biologicalIy.
1t Is certain that at the present tina
women should enjoy more Independence
ana De authorized to demonstrate the
energy Of their personal faculties.
IN a new society, where a woman
satsfylng the requirements of a moral
education would find her complete Ub-
erty' one would see affinities victorious
and the strength of the feminine ideal
would pave the way to new and vigorous
races, healthy in body and mind
In a subsequent chapter entitled War
Upon Feminism." she says:
of man"
On an essay on Fear Of RidicuIe."
Eulalia writes:
The need of general appreciation is
a sign of weakness. a stain. upon the
mind and conscience"
Dealing with the practica biHtfes of
fashionable life, she adds:
The fear of ridicule is such in the
fashionable world that one NAV see men
fail to keep an appointment morally or
materially advantageous TO them be-
cause they dare not show themselves
IN IN clothes different in fashion from
their fellows, because they lack the
proper style of hat or shoes such as snobs
have decreed necessary
There is chapter on moral courage
IN which is this statement:
On Need of Religion.
Never was there greater need Of form
ng our characters than in these days"
Eulalia says of the necessity Of re-
igion:
Whatever one may say, It is neces-
5ary to consider the masses as an in
eriOr majority; it is necessary to leave
20 the masses their religion, holding the
place of moral law, capable of giving to
he masses hope to live again In better
ife. capable also of consoling them in
affection. of causing them to govern their
ippetites. The day when religion no
onger serves to regulate the habits of
he people it becomes useless"
When the herring season is at its
'eight about 5000 miles of net are set
tightly in the North Sea.