Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-09-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

VIEWS OF THE SUBJECT. IThe discussion on '• Is Marriage a Failure ?" lon N;ith the greatest energy in the French An evening journal—Le Tiligraphe ..es throe long closely-printed columns to ire.Fum, of the various opinions which have been . on the subject in the most popular prs. and some of these, not having yet been ted in your columns, may prove interesting your readers. M. Geoffroy, writing in Chnencian's paper. La luxttre, says : Wrap exists, not in virtue of a decree, by a social convention which people repudiate or reject according as they wish. , then, an affair of individnals, and we cannot Ad to spend our lives in examining whether it is failure or not. Few persons even among who can think and who like discussion and  it will give an opinion on the subject, 4 life is too complex and too changeable enali!e one to determine one single good way living, one capital mode of organising union i family. M. Zola says: ' Marriage will go until something better be found to replace end f. Pumas says • Get married or do do so, and if you have been married :is cet a divorce.' There are no other an!re to give to Mns Csird. who, if she simply :ted to prove that the same questions were innally offered to the examination of lty, and that they only evoked strained ins, has succeeded ; but what is her own Mon, if not one of those which have always will ever exist ? According to race, latittule, temperament men take to the harem, to  ny, to divorce, or to celibacy. At the , time that a general rule was vaguely ntted by the majority, all the divergencies of arm were accommodated as advantageously possible, and even independently of the land. ad so it will go on, and we are not to blame Iro Cairds articles if the number husbands becomes smaller." A writer  the Hot d'Ordre says: " Marriage ,s;mply a question of proprietorship. The hue ,d does not allow anybody to put a profane on the woman whom he has chosen, and woman is overjoyed to have a man all to melt. Adultery is only condemned inasmuch it seems to many a theft, a violation of the ibis of property. So long as civilisation is ised upon individualism, so long marriage shall ust—iiist because it satisfies the sentiment of  Possession, and. secondly, because iron has no other guarantee than matrimony tranquility during her life. If ever love be admitted, it must rat be deto keep women and children at the le of the community. There will be no .gty for a private contract, the woman giv. herself up freely, and not selling herself for pension. as in marriage." M. Henry Maret, Radical Deputy who writes as " Aramis"in '-.81041, agrees with M. Zola that marriage is a institucon. It has been invented to bore pe ar.d to make comedies, dramas, and novels. s!,y be suggested that people need not get and are not compelled to go to the .e, but the answer is that they are not free set differently from everybody elso. Freeon is all very well, and may be defended h energy by its advocates and prectisers, hat !re are the code and public prejudice, which not leave the least liberty to persons. Marze az a sacrament was serious, but reduced it has been to a legal contract, it is nere binding than any other agreement. chronicler in the Poix says that after I the discussion people will be of the Mon of M. Alexandre Dumas file. who has ,retcly said the same thing in another place. 47 should you rebel against social institutions, Leverdet, in the " Ami des femmes," most itent men have organised the best means of .174,' disordered and disorgemis,d communities R the vortex of life. Marriage is one of means, and nobody has as yet found an relent for it. Finally, adds the writer, there t) real genuine woman, except the mother, ,f consequently the wife.  An inquest was held at Grange, Milton, on the of Emily Frances Clements. aged 17 years, had committed suicide under distressing itestsnces.—Mrs Charlotte Clements, a 01 independent means, residing at Pine ',sle. Grange, Milton, said the deceased, her °I daughter, had for some time past been !nge in her manner through a quarrel she Itil with her sweetheart, who had since gone qid. She frequently cried about him, and tcl sae would sooner be dead than be without )1. On Monday morning the deceased was 'nd lying dead on the bed.—Dr. Henry Luthek sad her tin oat was shockingly cut from ear Aar. and by her left side lay a bread-knife. He SOd nuder the Tallow a bottle half-full of 0(1y:a fluid, a large portion of which she had 'i.tiesti drunk in order to destroy herself, but 15g in that she had inflicted the injury on rthroat, which caused almost instant death. following letter was found in her dress :tet, pinned to winch was her lover's photo:!1)n .—" Sunday evening. Dear, darling mother. ) know when you hear of my sad end it will neve yo-i, but you must cheer up, for I am in a ,4ter world. lAar mother. I could not live Frank. so his portrait bury in my coffin me. liood.bys, mother, dear, we shall meet Ever yours.