Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — Got His Wish. [ARTICLE]

Got His Wish.

Prof. Edgar L. Lurkin, the noted astronomer, was discussing marriage at a dinner; in San Francisco. Prof. Larkin belie es that it is criminal to continue for life marriages that are unhappy. “Why condemn,” he said, with a grim laugh, ‘men and- women to such misery as afflicts our mutual friends, the Blanks? We. have all mutual friends, in the Blank's position. “Ar the ■ height of their usual quarrel the other- day Airs. Blank choked back a sob and said, reproachfully: . - ~ “‘I was reading one of your, old letters today, James, apd ■ you said in it that you would rather live in endless torment with me than in bliss by yourself.’ “ ‘Well, 1 got my v,is X/ Blank growled.”