Show jC DIVORCE V ENNOBLING 0 SIGN I I M Mrs Georgia s Snow Carleton a et etto Talks I to Cub CubI Club I I THINKS MARRIAGE LAW LAX II SAYS GREATER STRICTNESS WOULD AVOID TROUBLE I T IT T the great evil or of divorce I i iI T I I largely due to he Maity of t th V marriage ge lates that such laws las ae e ethe the result perversion or of the m marl tal Idea that the remedy is being ap apple piled to the wrong Tong ed end Of ct the problem and that the marriage contract il 15 nt nta not nota a Christan Christian sacrament are sm some of the things stated b by Mrs Geria Georgia Snow Carleton at the meeting yesterday of I the Ladies Literary club Sh She mal main tailed that the divorce evi evil deplorable as It Is today Is on only an eiene evidence o othe of the efort effort of humanity to reach a a higher r rand and beter better plane of life and to realize the true sanctity or oC the marriage ra reig tin and that Christianity a as accepted today hM has done nothing for woman but butto butto to mke inake and keep her 11 Mrs remarks wei ap by her audience and at the hour of the linac wg was ox ex tended by I a unanimous vote to her to finish Mrs rs Carleton prefaced Ir her tk talk II which was on Uniform rB Marriage and Dh Divorce oCE Ls Laws by a brief revIew of oC t the h various actions which h have e been I taken In t the pst past few years in regard to to these sociological CI Jaws laws and declared It improbable that an esy easy solution or of the problem will l be reached when there Is In this thee count country alone a standard of mariage marriage and of In ever every state of the Union with al all the border state states solvIng In Ing more or less of the problems as the they come up in Canada where Whre the di divorce voree vorce laws are stringent She quote quoted largely from Howard or of Chi who has treated the subject in it Its various lights and als also from A I IL Hummel Hummel the celebrated New ew York law lawyer yer Jer She carefully the laws of marria and divorce of oC the various states snowing showing the diversity or of opinion the omnibus lawI laws of oC Arizona and the exclusive idel ideas of Ute tue dIvorce laws Jaws In New York The speaker sowN showed the great laxity In regard t to the r re for marriage a sad in a large Jarge measure for tor the divore divorce evil vi b by thes these figures V I Stands UP For Divorce Mrs Irs Careton Carleton saId in pt part V The sentiment of educated p who have Sven given the he subject serious thought stripped or of i is tt that the divorce evil is the outgrowth of an o Incorrect marri marriage e Despite the great of divorces gat granted because of trifling causes the great et proportion or of them is heu because of a hl higher her and not I a lower Idel ideal of mariag marrIage When the has become ome in reaU reality It Is 16 tm tIme it we were I publicly and so far as the relationship ef f the home lass has been pub I ho to be MO 50 1110 te tie has been found since the s of man gregarious to be sn 4 one the le tie which links the tae marriage marra e of toda today wiLb that of thousands of yer years B C Is an eec o nernie one Hence Henle Ich much of the trou trouble ble In th the marriage relation arise arises rom the economic standard Th whole trend Q of modern thought is to make the marriage a mo more serious one and one lese less easy to entEr enter In only a fw few countries of eay tb the earth d the local governments take up th mt ter or of who shall marry In our own country countr nn any one who wants to ma may marry The diseased the unwholesome the ful aU all have the right In a law Jaw is under toay which shan shall the marriage of diseased persons ti till the they have hae been beeta on pr b ba bation ton tion for months and then It thy they sun still continue to wish to enter on the mar mal marriage relation prohibiting their having children This Is one of the ways of remedying the divorce eviL The right in regard to the matr matter woud would m ill advie advised and m ill een on marriages and the marriages of V children which are e al all over I i this country countr and much or of the evi evil would woula die out I Christianity and Marriage Christianity i It Is clake has much for woman I do not think Che has done for woman oman When hen the found founders rs of the early earh Chr Chris Christian tan tian church were read ready to deal with ih th the sex question they di did tie the bt best the they could coult with It according to their knol ege edge The he idea of marriage as a ser sacra meat ment cm came not from Christ but from Paul Paul as a ba bachelor thought only of the carnal side of the marriage r rela relationship la and wih with aU all respect to bach lors elors no bachelor ever yet It gt to s sInto Into a pure womans bert heart Paul J sought to sanctify the marriage relation by bJ making I It a church sacrament and even then accepted I it a as only the lesser r of two evils evUs The uThe words written b by Matthew about Cs Idea idea of were written years after they were said to have been n spoken an site there is is a gral question as to whether they were ever eer sid said at al all Boh Both Luthr Luther and saw that the marriage relation was not a bt but should be In the han hands 8 of th the state not the church but they never were re vie vic in this For yeav years the matter of the mar marrIage niage relation was allowed to le lie a aPaul aPaul Paul had stated I it ad and then It was taken talen up by bachelor bachelors discussed sd and se by Augustine Thee These men D soy to know the marriage e rela In Its purity The church did the bet best it 11 could al all through in er ering carry lag ing out the teachings of the gospels But when it came down int into the e eon tUres tunes to become a matter of law as wel as of f doctrine the w ils ot of the church wee were read wih with two meanings A Cause For Dual Standard This reading g gs rise firt first to the dual duals s standard dard ct cf morality anti made possible the barbarous r rous laws ws of England tOday which make i it Impossible for a woman to obtain a divorce for the same me reason for which I It Is given to a ma sian unless there are additional reson Instead or of Christianity therefore freeing wo we woman weman man f the yoke ot of paganism I it has sought to enslave her and to establish a double standard as between men women Modern science has cOle come In Iii however and has taught that woman is 15 real really from a a sociological t the Important one of the sexes as S the mother of the human r race As such she has the right to decree delIee wIl who shalbe shall be the father of her chIldren te the right to her i issue ue and equal right wih with the theman theman man in the eyes of oC r This his Is the reason for a large percentage of te di divorces I ores because those whom God Cod has joined d cannot be kept together This is by the get great props r tion of divorces In our northern border states state The of Df Canada anada which boast t a t law Jaw find the V on lac CAt CALLS S DIVORCE ENNOBLING SIGN Continued from Pane 1 I ts ot of God and of nature as Impera tl as ag do the people of South Dakota or of Arizona Arbona DivOrce SIgn of Advancement Despite the enormity or of the divorce evil today it is 13 really a sIgn or of the ad ot of the age It Is the step toward Joward a higher and a nobler ideal or of toe the marriage relation which de decrees rees that unless the law of God exists In the 1 heart the man and the woman are not l but only forming a carnal arnal In answer to the Question Why do people marry today I received one answer Because they want to This Is the only reason which cnn can make the marriage relation Uon tL a true unIon It is isI I pot the re which existed in earlier I I ot or the worlds histo history The relation Is the natural an and I true relation ot of man and woman but that marriage relation must be founded 4 on a real desire for one an love I and companionship These great questions are being dis discussed discussed I cussed In eer every lund land The movements in England in Australia in New Zea I II Iland I land nd and in our own country are sig significant nl cant and all tend toward a higher arid and nobler life Ufe for the sexes and a bet better ter and purer relationship between i th them m I |