The Washington times., 1929-03-22
How Marriage Began
Haphazard Reflections on Grave Topics.

4
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Just now it Is the marriage and divorce question with
much learned expOnng by the good and the such as
bishops and members Of sorosis.
What is marriage? How did it begin2 Whence does 1t
come?
Why it feature Of human life wherever that life is
found?
begin with such questions Always study begin
nings Nothing be learned by taking hold Of thing in
the middle and examining its imperfections.
The first priest to join and together no
benign being with lawn sleeves and soustring words
Marriage was brought about this by the will and
wisdom Almighty working through primitive babyhood
In the old days. when the world cruder, men and
wild through forests and swamps They fought
nature fought each other savage other beasts around
them. There love; there no marriage. The In
sncts reproduction worked alone
TO keep the here through its hard childhood.
in cold rough under fallen tree
trunks savage children born and nursed by their savage
mothers with savage affection
Through those infants of the stone age ages much
earlier marriage and pure affection into the world
is not hard reproduce in minds the picture Of the
first marriage
savage woman, half human half ape with rough matted
locks hanging round her face sits holding her newborn baby
protecting it from wind and cold
It is queer baby covered perhaps with reddish hair its
brow higher than rats It's jaw protrudes its tiny grmy
hands clutch with monkey power all things within reach
Along the father full of plans to kill mammoth
or cave BEAR interested in his club but caring
nothing for the mother who has been for time only
whining nuisance.
He stops for second to look the small creature which
he has added to earth's animal life.
misshapen skull ferret miniature shouders-some
ching about reminds him of his royal SELF studied in the
pool he oops to look closer His brist hairs grabbed
face.
Then the savage view of life; there the mar
aage institution and the marriage problem born mu
taneously.
Says the mammoth hunter with whsng words and hoarse
throat sounds half artculated:
II like this baby: Hes like me- Let me hold him Don"t
you go with him looking for food and don't leave him
alone while I'm gone I've got bear located No one can
evening You give this baby of the blood It will
do him good Don't have anything to to that mammoth
hunter in the next swamp want you to stick to I'll
look after you have taken fancy to that baby he looks
very much like me.
Off goes the father savage mother in primitive
way wife Hereafter she to be cared for Bears will
be killed for her. while she has children keep her
busy and unatractive Society takes new turn and the
Tedhaired baby has done it.
To childhood helpless beautiful we owe marriage and
all that growth Of morality which is gradually making
really civilized.
The basis all real growth altrusm and altrum the
inclination to think of others than of yourself
into the world through the cradle
We such civilization have acquired children
"A sOftened of uncOuth hand CLEAN
feeble m us nouE y Yet h faint al an .wHns S II.
hope of the human race"
The influence Of childhood has transformed animal
attraction into unseh affection It has substituted family
life for savage life The interests Of childhood demand
marriage and its responsibilities be held sacred
Duty to future generations demands that divorce be made
difficult and considered misfortune.
Marriage brought into the world through the influence of
children should be dissolved only with due regard for the
interests of children.
An unhappy marriage is earth's worst affCton. Quite
true But it is not affliction wasted.
Examples needed to the young against the ma
onal reckenes which underies unhappy marriages.
Unhappy wives and husbands are human lighthouses
lonely, but useful
If gentle little Alderney calf should marry sleek young
zebra and afteward get kicked to death for her palms.
should all sympathze with her. But should expect other
nildeyed Attorneys after that to beware of zebras.
AS matter of fact, this present divorce talk which sets
the good to flutterng really interests very unmportan
class
The who spends his life spending what he didn't
feeding his physical who goes from the the
OPERA and from the to the roulette out his
nervous sensations
He then thinks he unhappiy married He has possibly
driven his wife to being kinds of fool
But that is not her fault
who marries undertakes make her happy