HOW TO AVOID DIVORCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 266, 16 November 1885, Page 4

HOW TO AVOID DIVORCE.

The number of marriages in France (writes a correspondent) remains much as usual, but the demands for divorco are increasing so rapidly that not a little alarm is felt in conservative circles, where the new legislation on the subject is regarded as dangerous. It appears that the law on divorco is more liberal in Switzerland than in any othor country; and the authorities of. Zurich, alarmed at the rapidity with which married pooplo are unmarrying thomselvos, have adopted a practical plan of reconciling partners who ask to bo freed of the matrimonial yoke on tlio usual ground of incompatibility of toinper, which plan is declared to bo almost always successful. A husband and wife domanding divorco on this ground nvo now ordered to bo confined for a fortnight in a town en an island in tho lake, wlioro they, are quartered together in a solitary chamber, with one bed, one chair, one knife, ono plato, ono cup, he., so that in their rising up and getting down down, in thoir eating mid drinking, in thoir Hooking of tho recreation of " balmy sleep," they arc absolutely depondout upon oach other's courtesy and consideration. It is declared that in nearly every such case, the quai-relsome couplos who submitted to this regime became reconciled to ono another by the end of the first week of thoir incarceration.