| Show THE LATEST SOCIETY CRAZE I 1 THE latest society craze in the E east astis actis is the elopement mania westchester county new york seems to bethe be the sea seat bof of the disease although it extends to other quarters and has even reached the sei sel seat t of the national government ern ment young people moving in the most respectable circles some of them the sons and daughters of prominent officials als ais run away for the purpose of contracting a clandestine marriage for no other obvious reasons than fun and notoriety and to be in the fashion ansome in some instances the parents would have offered no interruption to the course of 0 true love if that enters into thu the matter ut all ali in others they are greatly exercised overine alliance made oy their son or daug niter liter as the case may lulay be and are highly incensed over the escapade thee runaway matches have become very f frequent and are increasing a secret matrimonial epidemic having spread abroad and numbering numer i ous victims young couples make up an agreement to elope and when some ob obstacle statie comes in their gayso anxious do they appear to engage in the fashionable tolly folly that they alicy take up with other partners a on u the spur of the moment and cast off the old flance fiance without compunction the telegraph brings numerous accounts of these matrimonial frolics and eastern papers give racy particulars what has as started this extraordinary nonsense we do not know but it a argues a very peculiar state of social morality and we think the ministers of religious denomination who for the sake of the tee fee ec lend themselves to this reckless tampering with relations that should be sacred are as much to blame as the thoughtless persons who figure as the princ principals pals pais if such a state of affairs existed in mormon society would it not afford a splendid opportunity for pious parsons to descant on the fruits of mormonism and for logical editors to show up the necessary necessary consequences of polygamy I 1 but as these thins things occur among the scions of Chris chrls christian christiaa families of course thero there is no reason to trace the cause of these shameful effects it is marriage to the level of a mere mete civil con contract condrac trac t has done and is doing much to disrupt society and weaken the slender by which families are joined edin in the united states matrimony is treated by many as a joke by many more as an arrangement that may be easily disrupted and generally as a matter of present con cou convenience with which deity and iud religion have nothing to do the consequences of this licentious departure from that holy ordinance which is ordained of god have only begun to be seen another generation will develop them in a much mo more re disastrous dia f form orm arm annd abid the consequences will be widespread and fatal to social order |
