The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-10-16
THE LURE OF MARRIAGE.
Women Seek to Destroy That Which

Yet it is true that people are no
longer marrying with that gladstone
and unsuspicious alacrity that once
they did. But it is no more than a
phase. 1t is not portent. 1t may
be faced with that divine Indifference
that is so large a lack in our ma
tional life 1t will pass as such phas-
es have passed a hundred times, but
since it is here we may as we'll face
the reason, for it has it's place in
the scheme of things.
The basic reason for a male un-
willingness to maryland the fault
is mainly male one-is destruc-
tion of the sense of difference be-
tween the sexes. 1t has been Destroy
ed by a few women who have sue
ceeded in saturating their kind
with one of those specious fallacies
that are accepted in the ratio of their
falsitv. One day the women of the
world will have a wise leader who
will lead them to greater heights of
power than they have ever known,
and the path will be backward one.
She will not be one of the Pankhurst
breed, but of the breed of women.
She will tell them that every atom
of their being is distinctly female,
that sex penetrates to the utmost
heights of their nature and to its low
est depths, and that between them
selves and men there is an eternal
gulf.
She will teach them to glory inthelr
complete difference from men, diff
ference that leaves its ineffaceable-
stamp upon every nerve, upon every
atom of brain and mind, upon every
emotion, thought and aspiration. She
will tell them that sex is not mere
surface distinction; that it is inclu
sive. radical, primitive; and that just
as they aXalt their own sex, insist
ing upon it's all-embracing differences,
so must they invitably become DOM
inant in the affairs of the world.
Now it is this sense of sex diff
ference that has been the Irresistible
lure to marriage. A man wants to
marry woman not because she is
exactly like himself, although with q
slightly different sort of body, but be-
cause he recognizes in her being,
as it were, from another world, to-
| tally unlike himself. and with stand
ards of mental and moral value that
he can admire, but probably cannot
| initiate. Deep within his own
nature he knows, that it is not
the feminine body that he wants, but
the feminine mind that all the beau
tiful and distinctive things of which
he was in search have actually no
existence at all. And women, bent
upon suicide, have not only told him
that these things are so, but have
tried to prove it to him by sinking
the differences and creating and then
eXalting the similarities. Why should
he wish to marry woman if woman
hood is only surface something,
chance phenomenon, that conceals
simulacrum or duplicate of himself.
To assert that sex is mere matter
of the body is obviously to sink mar
riage to the level of bodily passion.
since the body then becomes the on
| " factor in the matter. The moment
We recognize sex as pertaining only
to the body at the same moment
we lower marriage to the same level.
and then marriage is not only doomed
but damned. But do not let us worry
our little minds overmuch about this
thing. 1t will pass like the summer
! breezes.-San Francisco Argonaut.
Mr. w. P. Jones is now in the
| West buying the second car load of