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lover , who is a Freemason , to become recreant to the promises and pledges given to his Order . She is punished for the wanton sacrifice of a heart devoted to her , by finding that the man she ultimately marries has , instead of a single innocent secret , a hundred
guilty ones to conceal from her knowledge . The lover , after many years' travel , becomes the happy husband of a woman more comprehensively minded , and one also whose influence is exerted rather to strengthen than to sap that honourable observance of engagements , the basis of social and domestic relation . While we commend this
book to the notice of the Craft , as one calculated to interest while it improves , we would heartily acknowledge the sympathy we experience in any pursuit or production of our American Brethren ; and the full reciprocation of the good feeling so consistently evinced towards us , resulting in an union the benefits of which will extend
from " principles " to " effects , " , we trust , long years from the present time . Our American Brethren vie with each other in giving attestation , every mail , of their cordial interest in our progress here ; and we can only state that our pages will be ever open to assert their interests and reciprocate their kindly feeling .
Laws of Man and Wife . — Family Interests : A Story taken from Life . Hope and Co . —This is a story written with the object apparently of showing the injustice and wickedness of the laws between man and wife in our so-called Christian country . A young heiress is wooed and won by a man of broken fortunes and character , and who is at the same time living with a
Trenchwoman . As soon as she becomes aware of his marital treachery , she leaves his house and returns to her friends , by whose advice an action is brought for alimony . Unfortunately she had been deaf to the warnings of her relatives , and there were no settlements , and accordingly , when the case comes on , the offending
husband pleads that he has only a small sum of money ( which , by the way , is then settled upon her ) , the wife ' s fortune having been made over by a deed of gift to the French mistress . This is no fiction , a parallel case having been tried only a few years ago . On this head the language of the law is precise . In Wharton ' s " Laws relating to Women , " p . 313 , we read : —
"Assuming , then , that the wife has no separate interest in her own property secured to her by settlements , the husband , by the marriage , acquires an absolute right to all his wife ' s personal property in her actual and beneficial possession at the time , or which comes into her possession during- the marriage , and he may assign or dispose of it at his own good pleasure . This right is wholly independent of the circumstance whether they live together or not . "
Upon this the writer very justly remarks that society , and women in particular , have the moans of restraining , if not restricting , this injustice in their own hands : — "Two or three of his former friends of unusually strict principles cut him dead , half a dozen more only bowed , and avoided speaking , and a good number spoke as little to him as they could help , without being actually uncivil ; but this was only a nine days' wonder ; the feeling against him gradually wore off , and in six
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lover , who is a Freemason , to become recreant to the promises and pledges given to his Order . She is punished for the wanton sacrifice of a heart devoted to her , by finding that the man she ultimately marries has , instead of a single innocent secret , a hundred
guilty ones to conceal from her knowledge . The lover , after many years' travel , becomes the happy husband of a woman more comprehensively minded , and one also whose influence is exerted rather to strengthen than to sap that honourable observance of engagements , the basis of social and domestic relation . While we commend this
book to the notice of the Craft , as one calculated to interest while it improves , we would heartily acknowledge the sympathy we experience in any pursuit or production of our American Brethren ; and the full reciprocation of the good feeling so consistently evinced towards us , resulting in an union the benefits of which will extend
from " principles " to " effects , " , we trust , long years from the present time . Our American Brethren vie with each other in giving attestation , every mail , of their cordial interest in our progress here ; and we can only state that our pages will be ever open to assert their interests and reciprocate their kindly feeling .
Laws of Man and Wife . — Family Interests : A Story taken from Life . Hope and Co . —This is a story written with the object apparently of showing the injustice and wickedness of the laws between man and wife in our so-called Christian country . A young heiress is wooed and won by a man of broken fortunes and character , and who is at the same time living with a
Trenchwoman . As soon as she becomes aware of his marital treachery , she leaves his house and returns to her friends , by whose advice an action is brought for alimony . Unfortunately she had been deaf to the warnings of her relatives , and there were no settlements , and accordingly , when the case comes on , the offending
husband pleads that he has only a small sum of money ( which , by the way , is then settled upon her ) , the wife ' s fortune having been made over by a deed of gift to the French mistress . This is no fiction , a parallel case having been tried only a few years ago . On this head the language of the law is precise . In Wharton ' s " Laws relating to Women , " p . 313 , we read : —
"Assuming , then , that the wife has no separate interest in her own property secured to her by settlements , the husband , by the marriage , acquires an absolute right to all his wife ' s personal property in her actual and beneficial possession at the time , or which comes into her possession during- the marriage , and he may assign or dispose of it at his own good pleasure . This right is wholly independent of the circumstance whether they live together or not . "
Upon this the writer very justly remarks that society , and women in particular , have the moans of restraining , if not restricting , this injustice in their own hands : — "Two or three of his former friends of unusually strict principles cut him dead , half a dozen more only bowed , and avoided speaking , and a good number spoke as little to him as they could help , without being actually uncivil ; but this was only a nine days' wonder ; the feeling against him gradually wore off , and in six