Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-04
Sunday, July 4, 1915.
ALL,s EAIR IN MArRIMoNY.


 New Jersey is certainty doing herself proud days holding up horrible examples of existing possibilities of legal decisions One wonders if all these judges and iues who turning the freak yerdics in earn est or whether they are laughing in their lberatey doing their worst in an effort to advance the cause of woman suffrage which will be voted upon this fall
 We now have before us the case of MT and Mrs Wade Robinson At the time of their marriage Mrs Robinson, who was then really forynine years of age deceived her prospective husband into thinking was thirtytwo. When five years aferward Mir Robinson discovered how he had duped. he asked for divorce. This Vice Chancellor Stevenson refused to grant.
 By SO doing the viceChancenor upheld the doctrine that matrmony is market which the rule of "Caveat Emptor" is supreme He upheld womans right to con cea her age and maintained that such concealmen was no ground for dissoving the conjuga relation.
 Most of the papers taken the decision humorous ly. Says the New York Tribune:
 "One is at a loss which admire the more, the rose colored spectaces with which Cupid must have endowed Mir Robinson or the art combined, no doubt, with a happy disposition which enabled Mrs Robinson to do her part in the deception The vcechancenor very ev ienty bestowed his respect the latter ncning prob ably to the ofexpressed belief that is old as she looks-as old for the purposes of marimony, she looks to her betrotned
 W is well to have truth of this adage legally recog nized It is also well that matrmony should be de- prved Of all those of chance which have made it perhaps the sportiest of all human propositions" The affair does Of course incline one to smiles. Had the woman been thiry-hve and said she eighteen even thry-nine and said she was twenty-two Of
 
 circumstances. however the matter assumes very dt ferent aspect
 Mr. Robinson had made it quite plain to his hancee in the days of courshp that he the last of his line one of his main expectations Of the marriage that he might continue it. This frankness meant dsparago men of the lady he loved her less but rath CT compliment he chose her for the highest hono' he could besow that asking her to be the mother o his children The Mrs Robinson is said part o the deception to have entered into these plans with en thusiasm and to haxe expressed hope that the first born would be a
 Now marriage. whatever fl may may not be re ligously socially or personally is in the Of tho state civil contract As such, of its main purpose is the continuation of the In many countries bar renness even when accidental and not discovered tl after marriage is in itself ground for divorce
 In this case we have civil contract into which the parties entered with what seems to have been de lberate fraud.
 The judicial decision evidently, based on an an cient superstition that woman, not being reasoning being is not responsible for her acts. She is child ward where she isn't quite chattel and she must b protected" even from herself "Alls fair in love" an courship and youth being in the matrimonia market woman is entitled to lie about her age if sa can get away with it.
 The modern woman in acquiring rights. has also a' ceped responsibilities She expects to enter matrimon as a contract 10 which she is free agent, and she cepts the penalties for vrong-doing.
 If ViceChancenor stevensons decision be the type protection" for which the antsufragists stand, tn sooner women are unprotected and turned out upon n cruel and unfeelng world the better for their souls