The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-26

Divorce is desperate remedy.
Marriage should be a bond for all
time.
Easy divorce leads to easy fault.
finding and fickleness.
The man who becomes partner In
a business is more interested to make
1t a success than one who occupies q
mere temporary position.
Marriage is much the same. These
who enter it for life, regarding the
union as lndissoluble. have greater
incentive to bear and forbear than
these who believe in divorces while
you watt
Love is plant which can be fed,
fertilized and nourished by proper
care.
The people who enthusiastically
support the divorce laws are not in
Iclined to toll in Cupid's garden. They
prefer to let loves plant wither at
the first sign of whiting. conscious that
lit can be replaced with another bulb.
Divorces should be last desper-
ate remedy for a despairing life.
Wherever divorces are easily obtain
ed, morals and manners degenerate.
Some times a woman wears her
| life out in studying menus to please a
husbands palate, believing his de
parting passion will return to her
through the door of his gratifed APP
petite.
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
Iof life goina on all about US. The
only lesson We can gain from them is
the folly Of wasting life in an effort
to arrest departing passion. It is
wiser to speed the parting guests with
as dignified demeanor as possible
and to save ones strength for the
duties which lie beyond
There is a certain period of life
when the loving heart believes ex
listence without happy reciprocal love
impossible. Later, the philosophical
mind discerns the rarity of such stu
atoms by the continued clinging tt
life of the vast majority OF people whs
do not possess their hearts desire
4 Therefore, it would seem the sensible
and wise thing to waste no time o.
strength in trying to do impossihl,
deeds to retain WORKOUT passion bu
to proceed to make the best of life il
Iother directions.
The love that is not really dead
but only wandering, viii sooner b
piqued back by this method than b.
frantic and undignifed endeavors /,
attract its attention and pity.
Unelastic conyentionality OF view /
| secret accomplice of crime and Al
open foe to the highest progress 9
: humanity
Both pulpit and press send fort
their constant protest against divorce
+ deccrous-minded and order-loving b,
) man beings declare against the di
solution of the marriage tie by an
{ means save death. but the pulpit an
Y the same decorous-minded individual
I seem to consider 1t none OF the
business when husand and wife liy
J. together In continual open warfal
s and bring into existence children col
e ceived in hatred and reared in di
y cord
s When this harnessed hatred no
g and then results in murder the pulp
le cries, Shocking depravity,,' and Il
" conventional-minded populace shak
$ it head pproyingly, while it shu
le its eyes TO q score of cases within
IS circle where domestic life is made
IS criminal farce and breeder of pc
a sible tragedies.
ne Not many years ago four small ch
ng dren, the eldest thirteen years, "
Sc messed the stabbing OF their faith
le- with a potato knife held in the ha
" OF their goaded and Infatuated MOI
m er, almost on the eve of her br:agi
90 ia fifth child into loyeIess existence.
ie- The story OF the thirteen year {
er daughter. as told to the reporte
or caused not one editorial to be vi
IN ten, not one sermon TO be preacn
lai upon the awful crime-the most aw-
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