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is half up. My clothes are jay, of
course, and you ought to see the love
ly things Maude Stull and Virginia
Bradley have. I’ve written home for
more ‘beans.’ There are two chafing
. dish parties and an auto ride for Wed.
You ought to see Miss Holly—she’s
the Lit. teacher. She’s a dear and
never makes us cram the way old
Lockjaw did.
"The river is perfectly heavenly
now, and we practice there five hours
a day. The gym is a wonder, too. But
I am more interested in the new drag
work. Have you seen it? It’s a kind
of fancy work, and the new stocks
have it on.
"We are planning already for the
inter-collegiate team work and Tom
Wright has written to me for doubles
on the occasion.
“I must tell you the most important
thing of all —I head the class in fudge
—I make twenty kinds.
•LEONA."
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THE TRUE CAUSE OF MARRIED
UNHAPPINESS.
"Court is in session and as usual
there is a perfect flood of divorce
cases. One is forced to believe what
the statisticians tell us, that half the
marriages nowadays are undone by
divorce.”
This I quote from a daily paper. I
read it shortly after reading what The
Golden Age Household had to say
about unhappy marriages and where
the greater blame rests, on the man
or the woman. Mizpah says on the
man is nine-tenths of the instances of
unhappiness, but Mrs. Bryan, I be
lieve, inclines to the idea that it is the
woman who is oftenest in the wrong,
because she does not start out right in
her management of a husband.
But the great cause of unhappy,
marred lives is undoubtedly the way
in which marriage is made, the friv
olous, superficial way it is considered.
The girl is seldom taught the impor
tance of marriage as a life-long bond,
as the factor that influences after ex
istence and renders it happy or mis
erable, useful or of no worth to the
world. A writer who has made mod
ern marriage a study says:
“There is a much-talked-of demand
in this country for ‘uniform’ divorce
laws. When uniform and common
sense marriage laws are enacted, the
vexed divorce problem will be half
solved. Besides such dastardly crimes
as bigamy would be next to impossi
ble. There are hundreds of cases of
bigamy in this country every year.
The most of them go unpunished to
save families from scandal. Under ex
isting conditions, a man may have a
family in Tennessee, come to Illinois
or New York, marry under his chang
ed name, live a life for years with an
innocent and helpless woman, to the
ultimate disgrace of herself and her
family, and, very likely, of the two
sets of children by polygamous father.
Such a black crime is practically im
possible in France or Germany.
"In the United States, any couple
may, in a capricious moment, fall in
love ‘at first sight,” get the license
and be married, all within an hour.
Every reader knows what is said of
the ‘old fool.’ This species is a fre
quent victim of the hasty marriage in
discretion. Society needs protection
from the ‘old fool,’ and he needs pro
tection from himself. The fond moth
er whose fifteen-year-old daughter is
in the public school never knows
when the ‘apple of her eye’ may elope
and break her heart. Any girl can do
so any day, as far as the loose laws
on marriage are concerned. Such an
episode means ruin for the girl, gen
erally, but not for the boy. There is
no equality of the sexes in such mat
ters, and never will be. The boy is
expected, so ‘everybody’ says and
thinks, ‘to sow wild oats,’ All his
boyhood friends treat the incident as
a great joke after he becomes a 'prom
inent man of affairs.’ But what about
the poor girl whose parents, perhaps,
had the marriage annulled? It is look
ed upon in her after-life as being any
thing but a joke. Nothing is ever said
about it by her friends, but it is not
forgotten, no, never. ‘Equal rights,’ or
rather equal consideration, for the
sexes in these matters ought to ob
tain, but they do not, and never will.
No kind of legislation nor human rem
edy can change this any more than
the same can change an eternal law
of nature.
"It is fortunate that the people in
the European countries do not have
the same idea of ‘indepndence’ and
‘freedom’ that the masses of our peo
ple have. When a child grows up to
be married, it is necessary to bring a
certified copy of the record of birth
to the official who issues the licenses.
This is required of both the parties
to the marraige contract, as I have
stated. Without this, no license will
be granted. Moreover, this license
does not authorize the marriage until
fourteen days have elapsed after the
date of issue. This issuance is adver
tised in the official organ and notice
posted up on the bulletin at the city
or town hall for two full weeks. At
the end of this period the state per
forms the ceremony free of charge.
This is the legal marriage. No priest
or minister, or any other person ex
cept the government official for the pur
pose is authorized to perform such
ceremonies. After the legal marriage,
as many religious ceremonies may be
performed as the contracting parties
desire.”
We are proud and very rightly of
our government, jmt its methods sure
ly fall short in the important matter
of looking after the marriage laws.
Os course, bad marriages make bad
children and bad men. The criminal
dockets are filled with the oases of
young law-breakers who grew up in
unhappy homes, homes where father
and mother were at variance, and too
occupied with their dissensions and
bickerings to bestow any thought on
the training of their children.
JOHN COLEMAN POPE,
*
IN A FASHIONABLE CHURCH.
As I stood wearily one Sunday
morning, with a crowd of other patient
waiters within the door of one of our
fashionable churches waiting until the
usher should see fit to give me a seat,
I could but think how subversive of all
devotional feeling is this tiresome
waiting in the outer court of the tem
ple.
Pews should not be rented, churches
should be free —free in every sense
Isaiah says "The house of the Lord is
a house of prayer for all people.”
There should be no restrictions to pre
vent the common people from "hearing
His word gladly.” I think too, there
should be a church dress, as dis
tinctive in its character as a dress for
any other particular occasion. I would
not have this to be a uniform, but
possessed of some feature which
would make it unmistakably the
ommission of which would be as con
spicuous as though one wore a break
fast negligee to a reception. Then,
there could be no excuse for the mem
ber with small means for staying away
from services because she had not a
dress nice enough to wear to church,
for all would be simply and inexpen
sively attired.
Good taste if not religious feeling
has in some degree regulated this maL
ter within the last few years. I can re
member the time (particularly was
this the case in country towns) when
church was the place of all places to
Bhow off one’s gayest and richest ap
parel and at revivals the incongruous
spectacle was afforded of fair peni
tents bewailing their sins of vanity
and wordliness while dressed in the
extreme of an often ridiculous fashion.
A GEORGIA WOMAN.
The Golden Age for December 2, 1902.
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