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Show REMARRIAGE OF DIVORCED MEN As for Colonel Astor's remarriage, ' that is rather a disenchanting subject, but there are some impersonal things that may be fit to say about it. The i Colonel's wife got a divorce In New I York, and the decree forbade him to i marry again In that state But he can marry again in any other state, and the man-iago will then be valid in New York. Of course the Episcopal ' clergy are quite -right In giving notice of disapproval of his now marital pur-j pur-j poses and In saying that no Episcopal Episco-pal clergyman can marry him. For our part, we do not disapprove so neartuj as &-me uiuiuii&is uu ui '' the diversity of divorce laws In this country, but a law covering tho whole I j. country that would prohibit rcmar- ' r'age to the guilty party is such di- II vorcc cases as Colonel Astor's might bring an acceptable measure of re- lief "from what is considered a mils- K ance For when d mau has failed as ; a husband and brought upon all his i friends and relatives the discomforts 1 and embarrassments of his failure, it Is a nuisance and one too common, fl thnt he should be able, under tho law. f to go and get another lawful wife and tt. embarrass hia relatives and friends ill all over again. It is not fair to so- jjhl ciety, polite or otherwise, for such a jf man to com forward Baying; "I lost tip. the wife I had through my own fault, r Here'B anoUicr. What will you make F of her?' We think it is distinctly bet- ter for public morals that such men should satisfy themselves, if that must be, with future rolations less formal and less honored than matrimony. It .is a joke to Goolwin, the actor, that ho has had six or seven wives and gets a new one when convenient, but it 1b an affront to American society, and if law can stop affronts of that sort without doing more harm than Kood we would like to see it done Tho law of New York, anent remarriage remar-riage is not oppressive, but if its authority au-thority could' be sufficiently extended we should not have these divorced men putting their thumbs to their noses and wagging their fingers at the community. Harper's Weekly. |
