Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-09-04
EuGEN|C MATING HIT.
Separation Ends Union Of First
Massachusetts Couple. js !.
Health Certificates Were First CiAa4'
But Both Husband and Wife Neg
Iected to Have Their Disposk
tions Passed Upon.


Z .4.. tions Passed Upon.
Boston.-While health may be ths
keynote of the eugenic marriage.
there is no provision which insures the
contracting persons against discord
and d1ssension, Is the deduction Of the
first eugenic bride of this state, Mrs.
Catherin Wills Perron, who is parted
from her. husband after one month Of
welded life -.
Edwin Perron, the other principal In
the unhappy match, also comes to the
same conclusion, and thus, while the
physicians stamped the contracting
parties as physically fit, Dan Cupid
0.d not attend to his part of the con.
tract as we'll as the medical gentle
men. -,....- 6 49, ..-s. .~....
Two months and a half ago Rev. c.
Thurston Chase, pastor of the Central
Congregational church of Lynn, is
sued the ultimatum that from that
time on he would not marry couples
unless they produced certificates az
to their physical fitness and good
health generally.
Five weeks later Edwin Perron and
Catherine Wills were married at his
home after they had satisfied him
that they had each passed the physt
cal test.
The marriage was heralded as the
first along the line of eugenics that
had taken place in Massachusetts,, il
not in New England, and followed the
agitation of many leading scientists
physicians and clergymen in this d.
rectlen.
It is said that the groom after thu
ceremony was very jubilant and talked
freely about his marriage, declaring
that both he and his young wife wers
happy. .s
He said that his bride preferred the
eugenic marriage, since abe had q de-
eaded opinion on the question. and ha
had aeQuiesced In her desire and pro
cured his necessary physicians eert
ncata. $50 .=iSsss2I
The couple went to I've in q cory
nat on School street, in q residential
part Of the city OF Lynn. and they
seemed happy. $50 TO-. .-~~~- -
One Sunday night, shortly before II
O'Clock, Perron rushed into tho Lynn
police station and informed the omcel
IN charge that he had been assaulted
BY q strange man whom he had de-
tected with his wife In tho sitttn9
room Of their home.
It IL said that his hip was bleeding
and he declared that this was the 10
suit Of his being struck by the man,
saying that he wanted protection
while he went back into his home to
get his belongings. An omcer vaa
sent to the fat with him, but when
they arrived it Ii said that there was
no one in the place and that the fam
lily cat had sole possession Of the
room.
When questioned a. to what he
thought Of the working out OF a mar
riage under eugenic principles, Perron
declared: II do not say that eugenic
marriages are failure. It was a fail
ure In my case, but eugenics are not
supposed to be guarantee Of domes-
tic happiness"
Mrs. Perron denied the allegations
Of her husband in every particular
and gave an account of her move
ments on the night that he asserted
that he was assaulted, which would
appear to take her far away from the
scene OF the trouble at the time.
The charges that my husband Of 4
month has brought against me are alb.
sofutely untrue" she declared. ION
the night he says that he had trouble
with q man IN our former home was
with married couple In whose home
stayed the whole night. HI
1T was the first night that I had
stayed away from the home that we
had made after we were married. and
the unhappy ending OF our short mar
ried life must necessarily attract at
tention to our so-called eugenic mar
rage.
While this form OF marriage was
required BY the pastor OF my church
and He would not marry couples Nm.
less they could show certificate Of
health from q doctor, I am convinced
that since 7 have lived with my hVs-
band the marriage was not truly q 60
genie one. Ia =. + IL s=
Now, II 10 really 3 case OF the sams
old story. My husband tired OF me-.
the minute he thought he owned me
and felt he had no real love for me
very soon after We went to our nat to
Hive. $3.50. a. 4 s.s sB
Before We were married he sent
me q letter telling me that I was the
only girl for him, that he loved me bet-
Ter than hs did any other girl on earth
and that he wanted to marry me @
soon as possible. IN ii. H. # .s...
While had kept company with
him only few weeks, I thought hsz
was sinesrs and 10 consented 70 -
married. !. u