El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-29
Divorce, Desperate Remedy
But 1t Is Better to Be Tied to a
Dead Body Than to a
Dead Passion.
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

/ But 1t Is Better to Be Tied to a
Dead Body Than to a
| Dead Passion.
by Ella Wheeler WillcOx.-
vORCE is a desperate remedy.
Marriage should be a bond for
- all time.
Easy divorce leads to easy faultfind-
ing and fieklesness-
Divorces should be a last desperate
remedy for A despairing life Wherever
divorces are easily obtained, morals and
manners degenerate
Sometimes a woman wears her life
ont in studying meaus to please hus-
hands palate. believing his departing
passion will return to her through the
door of his gratified appeute,
Daily Tragedies of Life.
She fails. and lives to see him pay
court to the woman who would let
him starve before cooking him a meal
These are the daily Tragedies OF IKE go
ing on all about US Inc only lesson
we can gain from them is the Iolly OF
wasting life in an effort to arrest de-
Roth pnipft and press send forth
their constant protest against. divorce
decorous-minded and order-loYlng hu-
man beings declare against the DISCO
1utiOu of the marriage tie by any
means save death, but the pulpit and
the press are silent, and the same de-
corous-uinded individuals seem to con-
slider it none Of their business when
husband and wife live together in con-
tinuaI open warfare and bring into ex-
I istence children conceived in hatred ana
/ reared in discard
When this harnessed hatred now and
| then results in murder, the pulpit cries:
/ shocking depravityP' and the conYen-
] tiOnal-minded pOpulace shakes Its mead
disapprOyingly while it shuts It's eyes
| to the score of, cases within Its circle
| where domestic life is mads-aEcriminal
farce AMI a breeder Of possible TRACE
/ dies.
What Temper Leads To.
Not many years ago four small chill
dren. the eldest Is, witnessed the STAB
bling of their father with potato knife
| held in the hand Of their goaoed ana
| infuriated mother, almost on the eve
! of her bringing fifth child into love-
less existence.
The little girl who saw her mother
! murder her father related IN a SUolcal
| manner how they were always scrap
ping. Father came in and began to
scold, as he always did Mother an
swered back, as she always did ana
then the climax came-a more terrible
one than usua1-and the 1aIher was
CORPSE and the mother murderess-
Dozens of married people in the
higher walks of life are living together
in similar discOrd- They are possessed
Of more education and culture and
their language is less coarse and brutal,
er's society, and when under the same
roof are constantly quarreling.
Their quarrels may only be expressed
in polite" sarcasms and cold glauces
and unvarying disagreements upon
every trivial question and in a stub
born lack of concessions, but their
children are nevertheless reared in an
unwholesome and poisonous atmosphere
of hatred and the home is Swallowed by
a cloud tenfold darker than the shadow
OF divorce and separation could pro-
duce.
A Dead Passion.
When any man wants his freedom,
let him go The almshOuse is prefer
There are charitable societies which
will assist his last unfortunate wife
until she is able to work and Suppor
herself and child.
Any woman who tries to force a man
to live with her when he is anxious to
leave her, lacks pride. She is justified
in trying to make him support the
children he is responsible for, but the
sooner she puts distance between her
self and the man who ceased to love
her, the better for her self-respect and
her womanhood.
Bitter as the anguish of such a sep
aration may be, to live under the same
roof with an unwilling man would be
more bitter to any woman with the
right value of herself and the right
sense Of pride.
Use every act to keep man in love
make a careful study how to prevent
his heart or emotions from wandering
elsewhere; but, once his heart is gone
let him follow it Better be tied to
a dead body than to dead passion.