“Shortly afterwards the lady married a railroad man, and was
happy as Mrs. Joseph Johnson-Wakeman-Saunders-Powers, until he
was killed in an accident. She next married a Jersey grocer,
but the bonds being severed in the Divorce Court, she married a
hotel-keeper, becoming Mrs. John
Johnson-Wakeman-Saunders-Powers-Lindley.
“Being once more disappointed, she was again freed by
the Divorce Court, and continued her search for the ideal
husband, whom she thought she had found when she became
Mrs. Thomas Johnson-Wakeman-Saunders-Powers-Lindley-Godfrey.
But John Godfrey compared unfavourably with his predecessors, and
the Divorce Court restored her freedom. On the following day she
became Mrs. Wilbury-Johnson-Wakeman-Saunders-Powers-Godfrey-Gay-
(she says that the name too well described his character, as she
shortly proved to the satisfaction of the Divorce Court) Crowther.
This husband soon revealed his true character, and she had no
difficulty in regaining her maiden liberty.
“Mrs. Benjamin (many hyphens) Le Page believes that her
husband, who is English born, and has made considerable money
in this country, is the long-sought ideal, but if he does not
prove so--she is only thirty-nine, and there is still plenty of
time to continue the search. She says that she had long wished
to marry an Englishman, having been favourably impressed by
what she had heard of their high qualities as husbands. She
intends giving the experiment a thorough trial. So far, it has
proved satisfactory, but she says that it is impossible to form
a correct judgment of any man until she has been married for
two or three weeks.
“Marriage, she says, is such a lottery, but it is the blessed
state which it is ordained every woman shall occupy. Her life’s
mission is to find a pre-ordained mate, and she would not be
deterred as many women, by a first failure, but should try and
try again until successful.
“‘My experience,’ she says, ‘is that women make a mistake in
waiting for a man to do all the wooing. When I was young and
inexperienced I fell into that error, and consequently I had
several disappointments. But when I was thirty I realized that
a woman’s duty--well, right--was to do the wooing.’”
Again I ask what is to be done to influence public opinion, to rouse
Christians in the same way that the National Conscience has been
roused upon the Drink question?
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