Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1876 — A Strange Marriage Compact. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Marriage Compact.

a There top po.many theories-of marriage id divorce nowadays that the future riter upitj” the *’• Civilization of the .World’'. "wilL-find many curious problems to deftl with in describing the marriage 4 reTatiorftr ih thi*‘’Country. With their minds fitted with all sorts of notions and doctrines by lectures upon this topie; wltnraisin'g' the nhhappy experiences of tbqiri aaotbqrs and, sisters; and reading every day accounts of divorce suite which might appal any person f rrtift the contemplation of marriage, it is not strange that both men and women seek some new panacea Tor the troubles of the marriage

relation, and especially *. presmtive for ■Rich froutjles. Recently a lqp»l gofctletm.ui fa city was mrticUeiAo diw a document twhlch would stand fln| by which a nian andwoniannnghffenterlnto ’k live togtlber as maAaudl wife so long as both of them qhose to do so, and no longer. The object of the paper was to define the righto of propsirte which might accnie to each, and to settle (ha custody of the children, if any there should be. The plan was a simple one. Ttye childrep were to be assigned, the boys to the father, the girls to the mother: Ts a to be returned intact, if possible. All other property acquired subsetyaept '*» .maryiage was to be equally divided. The paper was drawn; but it ia doubtful, the lawyers say, whether it can be enforced. However, the lawyer informs me that the; "marriage celebration toefr piacd Monday evening, at which tbie paper wav read in presence of a company es fifty persons, and signed by the contracting parties and witnesses; tlie 'womAn has token Iht man’s name, as if n/artled ligularly;— lf. Y. (Jor. Chicago .. - '