Show AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE AMERICAN DIVORCE SYSTEM MRs LYNN well ell known english n novelist and magazine essayist iott has baa an article in the how be review view a london periodical in which she ehe says of american divorce alv kcf with divorce made as baay as it is in certain american states thi the marriage bond has no sanctity and the good of the family no valid influence love is degraded into animal instinct or whittled away to temporary caprice but the mag strate gives a clean bill for future endorsement dor and the whole relation becomes one of legalized and very slightly veiled promiscuity held by no tie stronger than desire a transient weariness which a little self control would overcome takes taken the dimensions of unconquerable qu erable aversion and the present association is broken with no more sense of solemnity ity than two players cut aft afiefh esh for belity partners at the end of the rubber inal infidelity has lost its sin inconstancy its shame because marriage has lost both honor and stability the children generally remain with the mother perhaps to grow row accustomed mod to a succession of step cubr g f fathers chrz which h h must somewhat bewilder benilde r their id ideas of continuity but like the lady whose three divorced husbands were her constant card table companions women under this loose system are hardened to the situation and its piquancy is lost in its familiarity |