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Show EARLY AIARR1AGES. In Judge King's court, recently, MrB. Olive Haight applied for a divorce, and which was the second act in the drama of a blasted life. On Tuesday Judge DuEenberry issued a commitment and the third act of the drama was completed com-pleted when the doors of the asylum closed on the wasted form of the woman wo-man who, a few years atjo, entered on the thorny pathway of married life at the age of fifteen years. Had she been properly educated in physiology and sexuology, as all girls ought to be, she would have known that, in addition to her being too young to assume the responsibilities of maternity, she could not, logically, be a suitable wife to the man who was sophyBically her superior. She endured en-dured her burden, carried her load, until nature rebelled, and the inevitable inevi-table "incompatibility of tempeiB" brought them into the divorce court. The terrible strain during the trial, with thb memory of that which she had endured rehearsed in the way of evidence, was more than her tired mind could stand and it broke down The girl-wife undertook a greater task than she was able to continue and complete. The pitiable ending of Mrs, Haight's life, for such it probably iB, should lead parents to exercise just a little common com-mon sense in the mariying off of their daughters. They ou(?ht to understand that there are certain natural laws that cannot be transgressed with impunity. They ought tp understand that results, or consequences, inexorably follow causes. They ought to understand that in placing men and women on this earth that the Almighty had in view their ultimate perfection physically, physi-cally, mentally and morally. They ought to understand that a child of fifteen years can know but little or nothing of thoee physiological lawe, even if physical developement were completed, that should goyern in the marriage relation in order to secure the highest results in the offspiing. Everyone knows that a g!rl of fifteen to eighteen years of age can know but little of the rearing of her infant, and that the numerous deaths among the little ones can be chargeable to the lack of knowledge on the part of young mothers who are not, under present conditions, to be blamed for their ignorance. ig-norance. In addition to the evils aboye enum-erated,there enum-erated,there are those of broken health and premature old age. While the wife is a physical wreck a victim to early marriape the husband remains strong and robust. This fact, seemingly seeming-ly inconsequential so far aa results are concerned, is too often the cause of separation, Human nature is just as we find it. The paseions implanted in men and women cannot, even if it were besf, which it is not, be eradicated. This bsing the case, the proper way is to avoid the causes that make those passions pas-sions inimical to continued happiness. It is eaiser to prevent than to cure? or to control where self-denial is yet so infrequent. The ideas herein set forth are necessarily neces-sarily vague, but are sufficiently clear to be understood by those that will devote de-vote a little grey matter to the subject which is of Buch vital importance to the race. Could the inner history of the majority ma-jority of divorce oases be written, parents par-ents would know that the darknes3 that gathers around the lives of so many married" people can be traced out as the logicaljreeults of early marriages and transgressions ot the laws that ought to govern in that relation. |