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Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes▼Attacks Loveless WedlockIjOVE vs. custom“Child of Ghetto” AsksSeparation From Millionaire Husband.I t v C.ENE COHX XEA Service Writer.New York, Oct. 25.—Scandal— the price the individual must pay society for freedom—can lead onlyto soul bankruptcy.And soul pauperdoni leads to an enslavement far worse than most slaveries. It causes men and women to live together in wedlock after love is gone rather than pay the price exacted by conventions.This is the warning of Mrs. *Rose Pastor Stokes, the London slum girl who married a millionaire but who went oh fighting the battles of the underdog and the radical and the militant. It ris^B from her recent divorce experiences when, under the New York divorce laws, her husband had no recourse but to allege a love-affair outside the wedlock. This, as she points out, constitutes scandal in the eyes of the world.“HTut the real scandal in a divorce law which brings such a situation to pass/’ Mrs. Stokes points out. “The mantle of shame seems to fall upon the defendant, but it should be placed upon the shoulders of the stale where It properly belongs.99Wanted Freedom,Mrs. Hose Pastor StokesThus Is raised again the old, old question—w^ich is more scandalous: the husband and . wife whoonfit !viif n 4 a lifo 4 r\ oof Vi nr whan 1a\tp i
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Quincy Daily Herald

Quincy, Illinois, US

Sun, Oct 25, 1925

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