Year: 1866

: In almost any conflict where the merits
are evenly distributed ard the parties to il
2 are a man and woman, the sympathy Of
the public runs mainly with the latter
! There Isl sort ofchiYalry found among MI
mep-a sympathy, for the weakness o
women-that induces the espousal Of the
side Of the woman. Even this Is SO when
in conflict such as we have referred to, thC
woman lacks the possession of quite the
same amount of merit in the composition
of. her cause as is found in that Of the
other.


We make these illusions in view of a
somewhat notorious case now before the
public, In which wife seeks a separation
from her husband. Both parties are mem
bers Of what Is known as respectable cir
Giles; on the one side, there is some wealth
and no lack Of respectability,; and on the
other, clerical position, which entities the
possessor to some consideration.


At the present stage of this notorious
case, the duty of a public Journal is limit
ed to giving publicity to such features OF
the matter as are worthy of attention, and
to cOnfine its comments to such points as
will not tend to interfere with the judicial
decision of the future. Hence, what can
be legltimately said in the way ofcOrnment
is quite limited. 1t is only possible, at this
stage of the affair, to deduce truth or two
regarding hasty marriages.


The whole trouble in this instance seems
to have arisen from the fact that one of the
parties, when consenting to marry the 9TH
er, knew nothing about him. She suppos-
ed she was about to marry certain sort of
character, and she found afterwards that
She had gotten something entirely different.
We presume that, in this respect, a large
proportion of married women will extend
TO the plaintiff a very cordial Sympathy
Not every woman has the same opnion of
man six months after marriage that she
had six months prior t. that interesting
event. tits but just to remark that the
rule works both ways, and that husbands
are unfortunately not excepted from this
awakening that so often occurs soon after
the setting of the honeymoon.


III this tact were cause for divorce, how
many couples in Chicago but could to-
morrow, if they wished it. find themselves
two, instead of one? Fortunately or un-
fortunately, the law assumes that people
walk into the matrimonial trap with their
eyes open, and hence no redress is provided
except in very flagrant cases.


The chief point that We wish to elicit
from an examination of this case is that
young women should open their eyes a lit
tie wider before referring sweet William to
papa. Love is blind, it is said but this is
utter nonsense. Young women are gener-
ally not so blind but what they can dis
criminate between offers, and discover with
surprising exactness the difference to a
fraction between the length of the purses
OF the applicants for their hands. If love
is not so blind but that he can tell an eli9i-
bic from an Ineligible offer, he ought not to
be so blind but that he can tell noodle
from man of brains-an honest man from
q dishonest one-one who can write his
own sermons from one who has to steal
them. Matrlmony is a sort of eel-pot, into
which 1t is very easy to get, but very hard
TO get out or; hence. nothing is so repre-
hensible as precipitancy. 1t love be not
quite so blind as is said, then should he be
not so nasty in plunging into positions
without having first carefully reconnoiter-
ell the ground.-Cbicogo Times.