she
never sit by her own hearth, with the arms of her children about
her neck, and by her side a husband who loves and protects her?

There are no two sides to this question.

All human beings should be allowed to correct their mistakes. If
the wife has flagrantly violated the contract of marriage, the
husband should be given a divorce. If the wife wants a divorce,
if she loathes her husband, if she no longer loves him, then the
divorce should be granted.

It is immoral for a woman to live as the wife of a man whom she
abhors. The home should be pure. Children should be well-born.
Their parents should love one another.

Marriages are made by men and women, not by society, not by the
state, not by the church, not by the gods. Nothing is moral, that
does not tend to the well-being of sentient beings.

The good home is the unit of good government. The hearthstone is
the corner-stone of civilization. Society is not interested in
the preservation of hateful homes. It is not to the interest of
society that good women should be enslaved or that they should
become mothers by husbands whom they hate.

Most of the laws about divorce are absurd or cruel, and ought to
be repealed.

--_The Herald_, New York, February, 1897.

MUSIC, NEWSPAPERS, LYNCHING AND ARBITRATION.

_Question_. How do you enjoy staying in Chicago?

_Answer_. Well, I am about as happy as a man can be when he is
away from home. I was at the opera last night. I am always happy
when I hear the music of Wagner interpreted by such a genius as
Seidl. I do not believe there is a man in the world who has in
his brain and heart more of the real spirit of Wagner than Anton
Seidl. He knows how to lead, how to phrase and shade, how to rush
and how to linger, and to express every passion and every mood. So
I was happy last night to hear him. Then I heard Edouard de Reszke,
the best of bass singers, with tones of a great organ, and others
soft and liquid, and Jean de Reszke, a great tenor, who sings the
"Swan Song" as though inspired; and I liked Bispham, but hated his
part. He is a great singer; so is Mme. Litvinne.

So, I can say that I am enjoying Chicago. In fact, I always did.
I was here when the town was small, not much more than huts and
hogs, lumber and mud; and now it is one of the greatest of cities.
It makes me happy just to think of the difference. I was born the
year Chicago was incorporated. In my time matches were invented.