New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1919, Page 13

NUMEROUS DIVORCE HAS LITTLE RESPECT FOR SACRED VOWS Marriage and Divorce Often Called “Legalized Mormon- ism” or “Progressive Polygamy”—Million Couples Freed by Courts in 20 Ohicago, Nov. 28.—In Chicago, the court year which closed June 30 will | €0 down on the records as the great- est divorce year. Decrees numbered 6,220, which is almost 15 per cent. of the marriage licenses issued. The war, liquor and an increasing laxity of views regarding the solem- nity of mar: blamed for unusual number of ruined romances, according to the experts. The war, which promoted hasty marriages, has greatly increased the number of domestic tragedies. War weddings in seven cases out of 10 proved failur: The young brides were afraid of thosc strange men they married two yea ago. A cause of unhappiness in married is liquor. United States Census Burcau. According to bureau, a anted in md 1907 ear tod 000. ofr vorces, for the United milljon this eountry Ifor the there were Sta divors between oS this immense which every number of di- includes two persons decree, a greal proportion v. Just what is the pro is now impossible to determine, 3 known to amaze the inquirer. 1for one thin Amcrican cit'zens married who could not prove they husband and wite if were called upon to do o It is also true that pé only half divorced, and it is a of record in some es that a flaw the one overy five, neccs legitimacy property An il vorce is it ay 1al ar is ms matter there is out « the larg of involving na divorec rily childrer of righit stration afforded the Rhode Island man, who while ing a trunk to go on a summer out- ing with his wife, found decree of divorce which she had procured four ve before. The hushi had been away on business (rip \ times, and his wife had charged failurc to provide. On his return they had sometimes quarrcled and his wife Jeft him. bui she had necver spoken of obtaining a divorce, and between timos had lived with him as usual They ked the matter over, put the decree away, and departed on their vacation. Ore circuit court judge has spoken divorce and marriige as ‘‘legal- jzed Mormonism Another charac- terizes it as “progressive polygamy,” while one of the conventions of the 1 rotestant Episcopal diocese of Albany the late Right Rev. William Croswell Doane recammended iy re- marriage be made a civil contract, and that the church wash its hands of it altogether. No Legislative judge of the superior Chicaga, before whom many cases have been tried, o sald: “There is no remedy for divorce, at least as far as legislative enpctment is concernec Now law is defined 5 “the perfection human reasoning and if the law is powerless to stop an evil, especially when the evil is sup- poscd to right the wrang of an unhap- py marriage, what is the logic of ths situation? Is itjnot that we have come to the end of the law, and must find another remedy than divo Whatever the answer may be, it s purpose of this paper merely to glance at a few unique instances affarded by our divor s and the subsequent Hberty 1gc It is known are nuinbers of men who areliterally supporting two or morc wives, by di- vorce and alimony; and we have now reached the stage where one wife attends the beds ing husband. - Mike M well known Chicago with his divorced wife side of the bed, and out on bail for killing her young lover, weeping on her knees on the side. His divorced wife had twice, first with a minstpel and with an unfrocked priest. MeDonald had provided for her ever since he di- her. He had il which gat his wife out of of 1i- of a pack- of one by phase case of Remeqdy. court of divorzc of rer Yonald, ambler, kneeling on one his wife, eloped vorced $50,000 ¥ jail for shooting a man. about $3,000,000, and the two women fought long in contesting his will. A few years ago the cage of Mrs. the | great | life preceding | only | ortion | i but ! fact that theve | more than | de of a dy- | the | died | herself | other then | also furnished ! He died worth | CASES SHOW PUBLIC Years is One Record. | George Lappage had married for | in been divorcea { She had run away time when she and at the day came to light She the eighth time, hav- even times before. from home the first s but 13 years old, of her last marriage ! was only 39 years old. ‘“Any one of my previous husbands would gladly marry me again,” she said, and the ! happy bridegroom, standing by, said | he knew of his wite's record and was perfectly satistied. Out in Omaha there was a “Try Again club,” made up of onc famil George, Albert, Frederick, Hans, T tie and Lena Trim were all mar | { and divorced within five vear 50 | | George married the divorced his brother Albert. might be filled with cited in the suit A * bronght one couple to Yark. the voung wife had not wedded for a alone, One man brought " home and his wife said that was a “common chorus person. left him and got a divorce. Robert Lec Armit. ds | I the 1ate policy king, “Al Adam ! tained a decree because of the noisy nil ¢ly arrival home of hor| the entire neighber- | } 5% Another ! 1d “rooted” too | and had lost | She got her wife of the oul in New 1 bres ah- untin nd ne usiness tions, posi o< Whole Tamily. record where a whole of on married B. Martin, may serve as an A a preliminary flier he Woodward, a friend of who were afterward to lived with her o obtained a divorce ound of desertion and Martin lost no and wedding one of Things looked perma- nent for a while Martin first had a Gauncing acader 1d then had a string of trotters and for 13 years he lived with his socond wifc, who fol- lowed the circuit with him, and was good at pick At the end of 13 years she vas botter at choosing horse flesh lic had been in choosing a hus and obtained a divore ileging sertion and non-support. Martin warried another Cole girl, who, after o brief experience, divorced him, hereupon he married Louvilla, ! voungest and nretiiest of the Cole sis- and at last accounts was still | with her she divorces rally George example. married Nellic the Cole rls be his wive four @y She Trom n on the snd non-support time in the Colc hut Wooir T me, I don’t know | 'l do,” he 1id, plaintively, at Jast wedding. All of his former wives Yemained friends with him and with his successtve wives, and the | families, including the grown son by his first marriage, visited each ‘other. If anything like romance could be anr possibility be supposed to be Assorted flavors and pe permint, chocolate, win- 1:rgveen and cinnamon. ONE OF 300 NECCO SWEETS ¢ ¢ O Erzland Confactiomsry Company BOSTON, I14SS. New i t'u- .r.« Fr: hus vor tin lef cumstance ing between them the san Hun- to been di- that heen cir- ind in remarrviage, divorce ar \luh 1t. Cowell, of aneisco, and Mrs. Smeline A, Cloveland, Ohio, ought These twain had once band and wife, but had been for 52 yvears. Within 1e hoth vemarried and had t alone by death. A\ trifling led to the and they were once ced more united. A man wife sui wa been sev not obtain here. sai gla she didn’t mind, | times prayed 5 « vorces ging.” tai TLaws Conflict in from different states. A ries and have children by her, tin | other | mes child we: er: might for in that w As a matter edged hy tha ove bands and wiv cor dai i the rights? eldg ma coc ple vor They about. on York divorced his became too fat t him. Tt may be mentioned as-a rning that too much obesity has seriously considered in court 1 times. The oriental idea does In Chicago a woman husband drank 15 every evening, which but that at other quite drunk She and the cou in New because she e d that her sses of beer “he tor ed it dther assigned causes for which di- have been granted are ‘nag bridge w cigarettes, cocl s and drinking. got relief’ Different States, sxtraordinary complications ecn the conflicting divorce laws man may be m tate to a certain woman vet by gei- g on a train and going into an- state this woman may becoma ; his common law wife and h en by her not born in lawiul dlock. At such a time a proce: ver, armed with the proper papers, board the train and arrest him non-payment of alimony to a wife still another state. Or, it might be his divorce from a previous wife not a divorce in another state 1 he might be arrested for bigamy. of fact, it is acknow the judges of all our courts t thousands of men and women all r the country have several hu apiece and all a Entanglements ly inecres One of the latest is question: FHas alimony dower It has long since been de- od that alimony is a “vested right of what might be termed trimonial battledore and shuttle- k occurred in Wyoming. A cou- were married five times and di- ced four times within 20 year played fairiy and took turn The lady got,the first divo the ground of cruelty. .A quarrel e of d in one to law ng ding he | old-time feel- | to | | been twice married { court di ['[ Pages 1A 10 ; N()VFMBFP 28, il the time ron- s the cause him, and bt e ground of desertion. The third the wife charged desertion and support, and the fourth time 11 and got nings for desertion. Dur this period of rotation they lived in number of western. s but never in a state of harmony, no two divorces werc obtained in ime state. A woman in th cond. Sh of ine tine ree on ns- in the Missouri recently mar- ried for the cighth time. A farm'h wus the zroom. MHis blushing b had been divorced seven times, having and twice divore her former husbands told the story of sher | neither of whom had ed from two of | She cheerfully varied spouse opposed he One case, Tould be a ! ing to all wives, was furnished out in South Dakota, when the United State government dissolved the Indlan the tribal rrid and United ates civeuit Twenty Rosebul In- stalked in the next for divorc 1nd Josephine, the wife of who said that she v her spouse to shoot court me stabl and ed a instead. ns solemnly i asked them, 1dier, od o be rid of had threatened covering from an iliness. Believing that she could not recover, he had bougzht the coffin and made the Tuner- | al preparations. Another Indian, James Buli Tail. complained that squaw had advanced id and kicked him out of the tepee. A woman in Chicago divorced h husband in accordance with the terms | of her father’s will in order that sie might inherit $50,000, but she drew ! the line at his wish that she should | ve up the stage. She was quoted as ying: “Ninety-five per cent. of ih- women of Chicago would divorce their husbands for $50,000; but art is different.”” - One $t. Louis wife ‘was set free by the law because her husband “wus not. because i her for ve- [ outside world, gentlemanly id husband had re- peatedly stayed out all night withont informing her of nis intentions. He had also refused to sit by her | a street car late at night, and had male her pay her own farc. She got her decree. 'oo Much Pumpkin Pic A San Francisco lady complained to the court that her husband had com- pelled her to eut pumpkin pie three times a day; also, that he had sold her horse and hrougham, and had refused C.A.BRIGGS CO CAMBRIDGE, MASS, COUGH DROPS \VILL STOP THAT COUGH AND GIVE A QUICK AND SATISFACTORY RELIEE ALWVAYS KEEP A BOX! MENTHOLATED HOARHOUND ON HAND" Ulm-- 60 ON N T OFUER Doom = DCN‘V BOTUER ;U 1919. o give her the money he could cven that the pie was ruining her Decree granted If anything “ven remotely th the couples, a near Boston. Sh The the little village separation, and | ladies even said it wa fhey didn’t get divorced, as they were | neither fish, flesh nor fowl. wickedne: any gross neglect of d But the climax came when the lodg- | refusal of wife to remove 'into parted couple, on the eve of their| & mental incapacity at tim , 8olden wedding anniversary, came to- iage; three years with any ether again, with as little ceremony | ligious society that believes the o as they had parted. They did not in-| riage relation unlawful; parties tend to have the marriage rites re-| not lie in peace and unton; va | Peated, but it heing urged upon them | of the husband; conduct defeating] wasn't decent to have such| purposes of the marital relaty ings-on in a staid New lngland| when the court thinks it is impn m'“m n?o,\ consented, and the knot| and indiscreet for the parties to \u: retied, together, and when the parties ded w fuuc;n ‘mr. they cannot live with each other. 2 sued for Some e . — during the 25 years of separation that | husband, who s her third husband, | and d’:-‘m‘;::::l"l::; r::?}:e;:::: d“lk fallowed neither one ever said a word | on the grouna of desertion ful and ("unrfl(:flng system be inst the other or hreathed a cause | Aside from the above specif seded by one more in consonasce - the separation. exists in some s justice and sound morality. wag shocked by | er the busy a scandal that | ounds for divorce, suel nd notoriously iramoral bef age unknown to wifeg fug from justic misbehavio digestion liko 0 hinted separation distinet ¢ oceurred A-man-and-his wife lived happily togefher a little beyond their | silver wedding anniversary, and then, | suddenly, without explanation to the they parated. and tic few Dblocks away the husband remaining in the home they had had from the first. 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