The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 14, 1919, Page 7

i F400, 000 CHILDLESS WIVES; PROBLEM EASIER DIVORCE IS ‘URGED| BY HAROLD mr BECHTOL n Manage dealt h Britain today is Law Reform} union This Organization is vigorously | demanding laws that will make @asier for hastily wedded or other unheppily Married couples to secure | separations “Phere is no question of soc form that is ial re 80 urgent and pressing | from & woman's and a national) point of view,” a A. Horatio Taylor chairman ic the legal} Branch of the union ree Barnes, member of the we cabinet ently stated that; there are about 100,000 childless war Wives in Britain | Many cf these marriages were} Dastily contracted, tends the Di-| verce Reform union, and a relaxa-/ Qien of marriage laws is consary to} @nabie the unhappy part to ob | tain divorces and start ow | Baya Chairman Taylor we are; constantly receiving ers from) these parties We recetve | heartbreaking human letters from! deserted women who will t break the mora! laws, but go on living out their sterile lives tonet silent Misery, when there « to bring joy into law would allow i “There are endiews cases of wom-| en deserted and left wit New who, to get home and pro for their families, have taken the moral} law into tacir own hands.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recently! Rave some interesting testimony fore the national birth-rate commis | sion. He took as a basis the fi a half million separated cou; the statement before the recent vorce commission hearin Per cent of divorced pec men waiting | r lives if the CATALOG Bverytheag for the Farm and Garden aia e See ceeae lamb or cold meats. It is better ,Ciety after the war sho’ WORRYING BRITISH: “ et @ wts9 ui. Seurce, February, worst winter month in America, is first spring month with | the Japanese. Just to make sure of a good harvest, champion wrestlers, in ancient costume, scatter parched peas from quaintly carved boxes. The |dape believe the charm works. - ie x obtainable for the half million now weparated, there would be about a Numt © Gilden wer quarter of a million remarried cou wt i and cimat ples €d at 400,00 oC = each family with an r r Law Reform union avers, of three chi » he sald there woukl be an - 4 to the population wit! years of 750,000 ‘Thus No exaggers ) state that witt &@ genera or so the ravage war coub * made up from this source a Sir Edward says Fiven if there are ct in no sanctity about which man and wife are at loggerhead: (Bishop of th Former Bishop of Cale Dean of Manche The problem of divorce the earnest consideratic men and women who and happier than it was before war ees Even before the war the marriage problem had become urKe number of women largely © the men who might have marriages but were unwillir aad that ithe the expense or the anxiety 8 thes ried life. the diverce and re This problem will be far more! | urgent in the afterwar period be cause of the many death { men who would naturally have be husbands and fathers in the generation ‘The state is in © mi ranction marriage t part church might ta a eb a epirit of coming‘ terented almost a fully as the church in ensuring the permanency of the marriage t But. if divorce is made it will Become frequent, an? every di vorce means the dissolution of a 2 home, with grave injury aa a conse. C@*¥ OF frequent divorce, but in a quence, not #o much, perhaps, tomen *!* imate ¢ as to women, and most of all to their children. Yet there are cases so hard, canes cepecially of women who have been and shamefully treated. OVERALLS INTRODUCED IN WRECK OF HOME ao crauy t SAN FRANCISC that they #eem to cry aloud for al 5 leviation. It is difficult to believe Perior Judge Cabanias today refused that the common moral sense will & divorce to Harriet Jar all from lever acquieser in practice of William Luellan V rector of th treating innocent girls whose | gan Francioco Er nt comin vorce has been in no manner or de.) ‘ 295 Sixth «at In ining the de gree their own fault and hardened guilty men, in event of their re-|cree the « S marriage, with equal, indiscriminate | partion sid ge severity as adulterers. church ar I hoki, therefore, that the while emphatica’ maintaining the asserting je of marriage as HAIL TO SPRING! | THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1919. | Flower-trimmed and Tailored Hats $7.00 $7.50 $8.50 Foe La TRIMMING means something quite different now than in for- | and the flow mer seasons, ers themselves are unusual, often used in connection with embroidery stitches and then there are smartly Tailored Hats of glazed | straw, with wings. 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Sizes 8 to 14 years. | | Price $6.35. —THE BASEMENT STORE | power of granting excep extreme dispensation in “Get Off the Earth,” Is Challenge Flung to Old King Alcohol _ s by t the Ant! ‘Saloon Le gu; Vigorous Campaign Is Pushed — to and whether wet, dry or} AGE OF %5 CENTS A MONTH TO. 4 ar by n a ald lot ' ave a Washington ; ination ( 14.—Get | byints. w devil | t if | doubtful |THE ANTI-SALOON LEA with f It has! «png 4 I intendent inj THERE ARE MORE THAN A|WHICH THEY HAVE foe present P ve won deveanishn's ante was nated | MZRLIO) RSONS IN THE UNIT-| SCRIBED IN CHURCHES. ‘* t Antt-Saloon | big pusir « > ad . 19|/ED STATES PAYING AN AVER- and looked the wayward one lwon SUPPORT OF Clip the following and send it to your senator and repre- : i cagieisea| Paid me tn his re one recor we MEN OF WEALTH sentati ° i ate i “a ressman itude thrnou | s Ne Show of Novelties ves at Olympia: ibi : , ake th 4 ampaign and after, If he had a - | By its work with manufacturers = eae pee glo ets th v t <1 record, we tried to show him ———————— and other employers to prove to them = “at sie YEO Mane” at hé was on the wrong track, that the e loss thru omic alcohol, the J HuTESON-DONAHEY w Hot. ..c-.cees- Ped phy gartape " me te for | he was going against public opinion league has won men of large means = : p a. se 5 candidat gardless of ticket. | Our lobbyists got to work on him to| : e@ {to its financial support, and some of Olympia, Wash. 0 TS ee nso aly The leagi6's bureau of political in-] Whip him into line | Optical mpany | these have given thousands of dollars ear Sir: I urge you to vote for Senator Lam ; \ f t formation riva at of any political «t¢ t make sure of him, | jand thelr genius for organization, rl bill to give We i oldiers $10 a mc if : ' ; h ‘ to det nery for his 4325 PIKE ST. | The printing plant of the Anti-Sa- ing’s bill give Washington soldiers a month mia ; : it of ca and Out }Joon league has seven big presses, a for service durmg the recent war. I urge you to see I ; ws vile ? bil fice th |number of job presses and all the to it that this measure is not buried in committee. oe ae f " \ and | other equipment of a great establish- rs 1. 5 , itained | es ne cep: vorkers Eiiott 3635 Our soldiers should be treated right. They need Ste Soka hart r saree Cheap Glass: |ent, It keane 100 eye “ r i duplicates kept in ne turning out prohibitic %, THIa WEEK ready cash when they are discharged. Let's give it le ' pr 1 uried down | NO TIME WASTED |Are Not Cheap | ature 8 300,000 copies of the Cohan & Uarris’ Dramatic Baccess to them thru the Lamping bill—and let’s pass that turn ft She varios publica \ 1 ward|ON STERILE FIELDS | tion of the American eRe OFLE 50%.” bill promptly. Merit and not politics should count. ina Gne nemaes tye a ! \ nize Gil till cede saver: Saate an and spectal state iighte tgcen, Set. Mat. Sto-the = dg leg ay rg th a ‘dry’ in a te What makes a pair of Glasses from 300,000 to 700, Yours sincerely, i That is what has put over ly wet. ‘Ther: valuable is the BRAINS used in : t a the direct atta 2 I it turns out millions of PALACE ) HIP RETO, DIU eee)... MERA ne Marshal Foch furnishing them. Those who |, leaflota, folders and other Jown to the last detail Lem fate featioin lanes know how, piace a value on thetr | y ition printing each ‘ J oye A ll ed era ih Fr rches has been one o! services, Knowledge is worth |r buildings in addi- HIPPODROME VAUDEVILLE sve ingyen erent dy gest lea: has had promp nic \ for t money. Our prices are as low|t ie required ti ; asp! gn Aig ada to use polttical method ge <i : am Pu Ahan as is consistent with good serv cage ie anton eat in “Who Will Marry Me?” 7 ee rhe Anti-Saloon league has fought | man in dou d Ehslyy aad si - ice and satisfactory individual | } K * Weekday 10¢ fe he battle along political and econom- | HOW CONGRESSMEN Bethe oe sade apie ' © big pub- ——_—_—— ————— King commtg emators at Ctympin | Walter 4. Lama, in the th dis line And it has kept records of : TO TIME passed around, each ion th ig pul ; —— =: Award D. Tage, 20th die-| trict; Alfred E. Miller and Evan San ere and candidates | WERE BROUGHT TC 7 ae sbhed. apa there: 4 st paid man ld } ‘and Frank (_{the famous Tammany system in New of & congressnian ix $ x i ne t ont . _t20 > Hives ry-made “een » Bi sexcony dy sah thal ; W. W. Conner | York bbe . hure tion which is ed to undertake | \4 THE LITTLE oe, 44th district! | eAGUE DICTATES TO Te: a aauibieiedt lai ano ween dint This work in the churches has 325 PIKE STREET. vio task of ariving King Aloohol off | — h @etrikt; Geo. LK. Lamping, 87th de | C. O. Qualbetm and Robert Grass, MIGHTY IN POLITICS i Sen arse ad aah at 4 ae rai hal te lacelne thé i tho earth, just as It has been asain ; trict. | 4th Aintrict; Stephen A Holl and Gy seta mee tec j Daa uae the GROEGN Mates: by: nll? | eaeeaenanen Sprayer | ful in driving him out of the mest” A King oprenmtativen Frank Cotter{! ct; W It han dictated to members of ‘state | intere wore at once notified by | ear F Gred S leon daca | wodlsemedhcars &. “a “Gulacaithe Pale legislatures, to congressmen and gov- the Washington bureau; principally jcal affiliations as well as by denom. powerful country in the world,