Life — December 14, 1905 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- But in the marriage contract as it is treated b some churches, a man may beat his wife, starve her, rob her, beat her chil- dren, abandon her—pay no regard to his side of the con- tract and yet hold her to hers. And the forbidding of remarriage to both parties to a divorce is such an ab- surd and cruel step, as it would be to enact that any two merchants who entered into partnership should be eternally debarred from dissolv- ing and forming a new partnership with other persons, no matter how much either embezzled or bullied, or rendered the partnership intolerable. People who promise to take one an- other ‘t for better, for worse," without limitation of or remed from any degree of ‘* worse, are simply making a ridiculous contract that will not hold. L’Envoi of Insurance. (With Apologies to Kipling.) HEN written and our pockets are Earth's last policy's twisted and When Insurance, as faded, and the thi ho We won't rest, for how could we do a short ed, business, is we call nor has died, it, when we know in kor two. That the master of all good grafters will declare an assessment due. w Divorce. Nor will they who have pulls be happy, they sit in directors’ chairs, And make golden incomes more golden balls and put on a For there'll be no more victims to draw from, so McCurdy, J. Hyde and McCall ill begin to ize up one another with a view to acquiring it all. And ¢ ‘Trusts shall praise them, and only the victims shall blame, And no one shall work for position, and no one shall work for fame, But just for the love of the money. in his separate star Shall frame up new plans of high finance for the god of Grafts as they are Harvey Peake. And each Appropriate Hymns. Maes tion.” ** How firm a founda- ociety Woman's: ‘Calling, call- ing, to-day, to-day.’ Chauffeur's: “Speed away, speed away. Lawyer's “When I can read my title clear. Tailor’s: “Come, my soul, thy suit prepare.”” Guardian's: “A charge to keep I ha farmer's: “Sow in the morn thy seed.” Burglar's: “TI love to steal awhile awa Jewish Greengro fect pease."" Pease, per- EAR LIFE: As you seem to be advocating divorce so strongly of late, will you explain why two persons should break a contract and e another "for better, for worse,” t to be "for worse ""? An Old Subscriber. . November 8, 1995. Dear OLp SunscriBer : Lt vocating divorce for divorce’s y it simply advocating its propriety as a last resort when conditions make it the lesser of two evils. As to contracts, the courts hold all civil contracts void in which there is no equity ; and a man who con. tracts to sell himself asa slave, will be released by the courts from the perform- ance of such a foolish and unrewarded agreement. Similarly, acontract may be nullified by the failure of one party to keep it. If you agreed topay a man a dollar a bushel for wheat, he must keep his side of it, and deliver the wheat or he cannot claim your dollars. e is not ad- THE FIRST MOUNTED POLICE. comicbooks.com