Show mm AND MW the news york sun has majo the discovery that the practical discontent with marriage is more prevalent in the metropolis Met among women than among men it claims that the majority of temporary and voluntary exiles from the state for the purpose of gaining divorce are women the sun gives an example of a daughter of a bishop of the episcopal church who has secured in ehude island an absolute divorce from her husband on the grounds of abandonment and nonsupport non support under alo decree of the court aba will resume her maiden nama as if she had never been married this lady went to brooklyn to obtain a nominal residence in ehude island for the express purpose of getting a divorce for causes which under the law ofner york and under the canons of he episcopal church are not for the dissolution of a marriage among tho witnesses in her behalf at newport was alie bishop himself her father her husband made no opposition to her petition and incompatibility of temperament and character rather than the on which the decree was obtained seems to have bea the real motive for escaping from tha matrimonial bonda this is only the latest edition the sim to a long list of divorces divo roes ob twined within recent years by worn n of high social standing in new york for similar causes they so acx ious to be freed from marriages that had beckma hateful to them that they fled to other states to take advantage of divorce laws more liberal than our own and though nearly all of them are episcopalians Episcopal ians they were not re strained from their purposes even by the law of the charch they practically defied the church and treated m ba civil contract only i as showing also their sympathy with the demand which has secured freer di dorco in the great majority of ane states for the benefit of wives more especially when they return to new york after having been emancipated from their matrimonial obligations they resume their places in society and even enter into new marriages with out encountering its disapproval the fact is that marriage is becoming more and more a farce every day in many parts of the union men as well as women regard it cs a financial union which ought to be broken whenever either of the parties become the least dissatisfied among women of fashion many are ready to forsake a husband whenever bis income dwindles down to a state that will not admit of their gay life if they are young and handsome marriage with others more wealthy becomes an easy matter |