The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-06-10
The Optimistic Pessimist

Inc OpIlIn1SI1C eSSlIIlSl
Education is said to be empying the harems of Turkey. Undoubtedly
education has that effect and with it combines the high cost of living
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1t has been the custom for mod@nny to explode old time assertions so
it's somewhat of a gratifying change 10 have the recent assertion that four
women from Honolulu who a short time since scaled Mauna Loa were the
first o perform the feat refuted by the statement that a woman pioneered
the way or the present day suhragist mixers by sol Al years
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Some persons get st in the habit of holding out their hands for help that
a smart kick is necessary to make them realize that the hands IA be used
for other purposes than grasping.
Many reformers seek vamly for wtadnins to joust against in the ontng
while there are real enemies waiting for combat close a hand. Farslghted
glasses do not assist imperfect ethical sight.
1t is said that only about a |" third @ " . + the worlds population are white
Perhaps the count a made while former prohteers were striving to hold
up the price roof fin the face o a bowling gale Of protest.
Forging ahead in business. is the title o a book. Forging in business
is more apt to get one behind-the bars.
Some OF the most promising men are the least popular among their
creditors.
Even if there ar too many divorces in Hawaii there re n o enough
houses to owe the heads of those who remain mated.
Bargains break buyers strike, " says ~ a a headline. Many of the buyers
were broke before they struck and many mor weer badly bent.
A pendulum cannot be At the top Of its swing all the time. Even if the
law of gravity would permit the business clock would then have to stop.
diseases are evils as well. Treating the patient that is ill with those
dread diseases does not always save his life nor does it prevent raw
ages to his strength and body. The germ has to be fought to con-
troll the disease. And so must it be with divorce.
Ministers claim that divorce is too easy. Admitted, but s. also
pararation for marriage, the candidates for matrimony are more
often carried away by passion than governed by sound considera-
ton. A CIR. dresses well, dances well, talks entertaningy, is charm
ing. The prospective husband does not count the cost of the girls
gown, does not pause to remember life is not one long dreamy waltz
The girl is captivated by a stalwart figure, a handsome face, a con-
fdent bearing. They wed without sufficient consideration. The
germ of the divorce evil lies hidden in easy matrimony.
1t is urged that marriage is a religious sacrament. So also is
baptism and so is admission to the communion of the church. There
are backsiders in the church and so will there be backsiders in
marriage under the best of circumstances. When marriage is not
regarded as a sacrament its bonds are less binding though not
necessarily less heavy. Ministers must recognize that no matter
what be their point of view a large majority do not regard mar
riage as a sacrament, especially those who have married foishly.
a marriage lightly entered into Is a mOckery and the best cure for
easy divorce is to prevent light marriages.
On this subject Judge DeBolt said in part:
early training of the right kind is the only solution to
the divorce problems. Let the young people face marriage
with their eyes open; let them be trained early in childhood
so that they may fully understand the duties and privileges
of life's greatest relationship. With the domestic altar built
upon a firm foundation, an adequate cure for the divorce evil
will have been effected.
divorce is the result of the conflict between modern ideas
and conditions on which our marriage laws and customs are
based. The present marriage system, however, is not entirely
to blame for the increasing number of failures resulting from
it, but much Of the fault lies with the me- and women who
for varied reasons are unable to make a success of the ties that
bind them together"