| Show RESPONSIBILITY S In these Ia slays days s 's of free divorce and almost freer mar 1 4 there l' l havo been man many attempts to fix fIc tho the S for fur ull unsuccessful matrimonial adventures Al AlS Alto Alway Al- Al way up lo to now now now-It It has luu been boen thou thought ht that tho men man o othu or ortho thu tho woman or Ot the parents o of one or tho other o or 5 S. S untoward circumstances were to blame for any catas catas- r that thal might come But wo we have learned recently that the trouble Is IJ with the Uw license clerk A 1 woman woman and and vo wo much to tn Philadelphia In n the wa way I S of enlightenment Is Is r for this new theory 55 A A- Af f fow liw W days tS ago agoa a 1 woman rushed Into the lie marriage license office of that city and ami said to the lire unhappy clerk tk You are aro to lit for Ol all aU my may troubles You Issued issue Ihu thu license fur for my wedding I hate hato you OU You are aro re responsible re- re for Cor mill all my misery But for you ou I ml might ht still stillS S be ho single and happy happ When she was reminded that tho Limo clerk had no ills ills- that hI ho had hud to Issue the license that thu law lav was hl his master malSter sho she replied I I dont don't cure anything S about tho the law I will hold you OU responsible for m my misery miser 1 to my dying day Of course courte If the lire clerk had not Issued Sued t tho lImo license there would have been no marriage at marriage at least not miot In Philadelphia And yet ct who can toll In thIs S T state stale a marriage that Is otherwise valid ia itS not invalidated for COt failure allure to lo get Jet a license Whether hether that Is true truo In kf Philadelphia or 01 not we vc do not know But nut tho thu clerk certain certainly was a party to the time so of ot the mar mar- So Sc was vas the time clergyman Not ot so directly of ot course for if ho he had refused to another clergyman S S might have hll been found The clerk on the tho other handt hand t f was the only ono one who could grant Jant tho the license So his hisS Ff S burden Is tho the l heavier l Yet Yet ISo bo strange is human nature 1 S If If the thu man had refused to grant the lIc license nse this 7 wretched woman would probably have liars been greatly In Incensed In- In S J censed consell at nt him On the whole we doubt whether he lie can cami tJ fairly L bo lit held responsible I x 1 might still be single jIngle and happy Think of ot It S Think of the Ill assorted association of these words Of course w have heard beard of or such a thing timing as IlS single le blessedness but Lut we havo always alwa's felt that there was an as J irony In tho the phrase and we still think so Wedded fI L S bliss s on the thu other hand all know I we about There ThereS I la is 5 nothing sarc sarcastic In these words To tal talk of oi oiS S S being single and happy In this joyous springtime when tho the young mans man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of ot S love Jove and when the well known Iris shines upon the tilt r. r I burnished dove o Is Is not this a a. species of ot sacrilege We Wt think so Wo Yo can not see how any I Cr OIl In his ri right ht senses can cnn Imagine such a thing as being single and happy happ As to this woman wo should say Kry that tho the chances are that even if it she should bo be able to escape from fraIn her hel pre present bondage she would not long be content to remain single and happy We Vo ma may do her an In In- In i justice If so BO we apologize But Dut wo we protest against ng I the single and happ happy theory theOl of IndianaPOlIS Indianapolis News I |
