AN "EMANCIPATED WOMAN.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7143, 8 February 1892, Page 2

AN "EMANCIPATED WOMAN.

The Daily Chronicle writing of the Russell divorce oase says: The oaea has not been devoid of interest, and even of importance, The public has • beea able to see the kind of young lady who is nowadays regarded as the. eligible bridei. To an extent Lady Russell appears to have represented a some??hat "Emancipated type. She could ride, ehe could scull, she could play tennis, sfe ' could smoke. la the athletic lines ghe was admirable, Her deficiencies j?ere hi the "walks" in which modem'culture ii supposed to have made soma'irnpres* sion on the modern girl. According, to Lord Russell, ahe could not 'do a sum in addition, File-clearly had nothing about her which could in'the faintest degree be termed'an intellectual Interest, A young girl enters marriage with some thousand pounds of debt -hanging over her head, £1700 of it on a : milliner's account, and nearly all incurred ii the adornment of her pretty person, On one side sha.has a man's tastes and pursuits; on thepther shocin be outdone by any Board-sphqol gifl. is ths Fifth Standard. What could be expected of such a union ?' A flimsier "doll'stiousa' 1 was never . constructed, and fts Russell did not happen to be a Norah, ib went to pieces a, good deal quicker than even .the famous household of tfiie Heir mera, Nothing can be more instractiya and more saddening than the ycay .via which the petty amenities of fashionable life ended' in the deadly encounter of hate and passion which was fought out in the law courts. Aa it turned out, there was nothing worse behind it than a woman's hysterical irritation pa one side, and a man's fitful impatience/on tha other. But what a pitiful and graceless comedy; how suggestive of the deepest social evil! It only remains to be said that a properly adjusted marriage Jaw would have lot the ilkssorted couple go, without inflicting serious injustice on ether. Thoss whom Society haa joined together • Sir Charles Butt ia usually called upon to put assunder, and most people are inclined to think that the terms on which such contracts are held together are far too rigid, The thought that the man on whom Lady Russell would have inflicted one of the deadliest hurts that any human being could well receive, is bound to her for the remainder of her life, and s h ot 0 him, is, we venture to think, repellant to common sense, to justice, and to higfy views of the sanptity of the fljiarriaeq tie, '