IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 1 June 1907, Page 4

IS MARRIAGE A FAILURE?

FACILITATING DIVORCE.

i In reply to a letter appearing in yesterday’s issue a correspondent, signing himself “The Mere Man,” writes:

Tho lottor of “Anti-Marri'ago” in this morning’s issue of the “Times” opens up a subject upon which there must he a great diversity of opinion, but nevertheless tho writer displays a more than ordinary amount of solfishness, and he is amusingly naive ( when he gives his illustrations, especially when he regrets his inability to now take his best girl to the theatre or to go out and meet a few friends in the evenings. I am afraid. —although he assures us to tho contrary—his is not one of the happy marriages, and consequently he must have our sympathy. From my experience I am satisfied that if a man gets the right woman he could not have a happier life, but if he gets the wrong one it would bo better if he got a good stout rope and hanged himself, and under such conditions I believe it is absolutely wrong and immoral for a man and woman to live together. Divorce should bo made much more easy and cheaper than it is at present, and it should be sufficient to plead—as one can in Franco—incompatibility of temper to secure a divorce. In my opinion marriage is a partial failure (because we have not yet hit upon the most desirable scheme of releasing two parties who are anxiovis to dissolve their contract in the same way that all other contracts may be broken —by mutual consent.