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The Marriage Tie

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sáid a brilliant woman, whom not one of the refined coterie who heard her ;houghtof calling "immoral:" "Ateighíeen I married, of my own foolish will, a man of fifty, who adored nie. At twenty I had learned that it would be a sin to waste my fullyoung life - the only life Ï could know this side of the grave - m so monstrotis a unión. He was a good j man, and, according to his lights, a model msband. I could not but respect him, rat we had not one emotion in common. We were wholly incompatible in feeling, sentiment, in nature. Upon this ground, and this alone, I obtained a divorce." Tear away sentimental verbiage and ;his woman's case stands thus: Her husjand's ideas and tastes were not, to her apprehension, favorable to íhe development of what she sketched as the life sho ought to lead. Her individual hapainesa outranked all other consideraáons in her mind. The marriage vow, uttered of her own free will, because she then fancied that she was f orwardíng her selfish interests by the unión, became a rope of sand when inclination

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News