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Show BJHBBBJBxflBf'BRafflHlSSgi&jn'V -rhfev-i t DY THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT. Cuestlon of Rights Involved In NuptlM Relations. That Russian la a IVniisvlvan't town win, Killed hit wife mid JiMtlltc-d li In this sentence, "I have a right to kill lin wife; It's nobody's business Imi ni own," carried to nn estienio lengtli n still surviving mid h.v no nv-anx uuromninn theory of the ninr-ri ninr-ri iPliitlnn. Tho Ten Command-m Command-m s ilac In the same category t uelghlKir's wife" and "his on." "his asa," "an thing that Is thj neighbor's neigh-bor's " A good many well-meaning people look iiiHin .their own wlfo as In the same category with their domestic animals In the respect that she, too, Is their personal proper!. Has not title passed In the marriage eon-tract'' eon-tract'' Is she not "my" wife? This Idea of one's wife as his chattel Is not Inconsistent with the reality of an Indulgent and affectionate af-fectionate naluio In the man In tho case Hill it is Inconsistent with llio rl?'''s of (lie woman In the case an adult, re: : slide huninn being and n flee moral agent. It Is the basis of the so-called "unwritten "un-written law" the assumption by a man that a woman Is not the proper or competent guardian of her own honor, and that ho lias a right, on proof or upon suspicion, to slay her and somebod.x else, as he would slay an ailing sheep of his llock and n slieep-UIUIng dog. Not all men and women are yet able to leallro that the so called possessive pos-sessive pronoun "my" sometimes denotes de-notes relation Instead of posesslon. Tlie phrase "my country," for Instance, In-stance, means n different thing when uttered by an American citizen than when uttered h.v the Hourhon who held that he wus the state. "My wife" Is h phrase like "my friend." Tho pinnoun Implies obligation and privilege, priv-ilege, not the "right" to kill or oven to nag N. V. Mall. heartily enjoyed by the minister, who, after a couple of hours spent .In conversation, con-versation, departed for his home, chuckling over his success In so happily hap-pily yolvlng the dinner problem. The next aftornnon tho minister chanced to meet Mrs. A nnd Mrs. It, -another of his parishioners, while taking a stroll. "What happened to you last evening?" even-ing?" Inquired Mrs, 11. "Wo kept tho dinner waiting for you an hour beyond be-yond tho usual time, hut you did not appear." Then and there the light broko In upon tho minister. Ho had been Invited In-vited by Mrs. 11, hut had dined with Mrs. A. Ho made a completo confession, confes-sion, then nn ajsilogy, and promised thnt hereafter ho will make every dinner din-ner Invitation a matter of record. |