h ordained that marriage is indissoluble, but, this being found impossible in practice, the State stepped in with a way of escape-a kind of emergency exit. But what a makeshif

tner must first be sought, home-life wrecked by the worst ki

is, indeed, so offensive to the feelings of most of us that it is very rarely, i

law. The law refuses to legalize divorce by the consenting desire of both parties-calls such a wise arrangement collusion; yet it cannot prevent what everyone knows is done in the great majority of decently conducted divorce suits, where desertion and infidelity take place

at is going on ought to be known. My own opposition to the law is not so much on account of the difficulty in obtaining a divorce-for it is not nearly so difficult as most people think; nor do I take exception, as is common with most women, to the uneq

f four divorce suits which I think will speak more forcibly than

A decree for the restitution of conjugal rights was granted to her petition. Afterwards the husband had to commit adultery; (again arranged by the help of the lawyer.) He took the woman he wished to make his second wife for one night to an hotel. The decree nisi was granted. Then there was the six months waiting for the decree to be made abso

cause it was the wife who had run away from home. However, this was easily got over. The wife wrote begging the husband to allow her to come home, representing that he had sent her away. He then had to reply refusing her request, and while desiring nothing on earth so much as her return to him, had to

nocent, and still loved her husband, but because she felt it right to free him, an act of adultery for her (not committed) was arranged. Both the decree nisi and the decree absolute were granted. Complications arose from the fact that there were two child

od, however, the "innocent" partner (see Case 1) has to be so careful of his or her conduct, that it is really much more convenien

from the necessary act of adultery, as it was against the principles of the husband even to appear to commit it. The difficulty had, however, to be got over or the divorce given up. It was done in this way: the man got his married sister to go with her husband to an hotel, personating him and a woman, and signing the hotel book with his name as Mr. and Mrs. --. Now the strange fact is that thoug

nly that the way in which the details have been arranged is carefully hidden, to prevent the losing of the case on a charge

cts of, often pretended, infidelity, are immoral; nor is their immorality lessened by the fact that through the rather he

honorably and kindly, and carrying out the always difficult severing of the marriage bond with as little pain as possible. There are, I know, other divorce suits in which vindictiveness and jealousy and anger are the ruling motive