The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-13
DIVORCE STATISTICS.
D,NcER YEARS OF DOMESTIC
pows ARE IN THE FOURTH
AND FIFTH OF MARRIED LIFE.
SOME CAUSES OF SEPARATION.

SOME CAUSES OF SEPARATION.
New York Press; There is no armor
,r,,ns, fate. as the poet has observed,
and there Is no time guarantee
,,,s, divorce. Action for divorce,
az oil preconceived, has been be-
No. TO-, In several Instances, on the very
s"", day after the marriage. on the
~, hand couples may live congen-
o'ny and happily for twenty-one years
ta "a more. and yet that does not fore
a an tbe coming OF the demon ofdiyorce.
s.I q matter OF record that there are
Ito,tca1ly az many divorces granted
hose who have lived together for a
80 M wears or more, as to those who
Soys been married five years.
Tbs United States government has
-, tramed a uniform divorce law, but
~ has collected statistics showing the
a,ratlon Of marriage before divorce,
shose figures covering period or tWen'
.s Years, In the last thirty years $780,
M divorces have been granted In the
yD,tad states. The figures for the last
..n years have not yet been published
~ Tor the nineteen years from 1867 to
,sSs statistics show that the divorce
tIgh. water mark belongs to those VINO
S"ve been married four years.
RerInnIng the one-year married peo-
O,a he total Is, roundly, 5000. For the
soTr years married the total mounts up
early double-2T,00 Then It slides off.
Rnt until the figures for those who
nave been married nine years are reach
"a The one-year figure 10 not touched,
~ decreases steadily until the twenty
10 married. number 1900. Those who
haya been married twenty-one years
ars Jumped with those who have been
married. q longer time, and found 1t nee
ossary 10 dissolve the bonds that unite,
and ihe enormous total of 10000 is
Senrhed Eyidently compatibility need
NOT Increase as the years fly by. In this
class however, reversal OF "endur-
ancS' figures 10 shown, for the average
duration OF married life for the hus-
bands is E.47, while for the wives 1t Is
only 2670.
auration of married life Is from twenty
two 10 twenty-six years, the average
duration OF married life to the divorced
10 onIy all years, being 9,27 for the wife
and S97 for the husband. This difrer-
cnce between husband and wife sug-
Cnsts that the weaker sex Is really the
Ttrongcr in bearing the woes of the
married. These figures are for the count
try at large.
New York state, owing probably to Its
r,rld law, shows up a little better, men
boldInr out g.52 years and the women
IN 90 years. But, though the wives do
endure longer, nearly twice as many
women as men get divorces. This pro-
portion is preserved pretty evenly all
through the table, whether the couples
have been married two years or twenty,
Inward OF $4,000 divorces have been
granted In New York state In thirty
Years. third OF them coming from
the New York city courts. The me-
tropolis frees about 800 couples every
year oo,
couples divorced for adultery, almost
500 have received DEGREES OF limited d.
yorce for cruelty, and of these less than
fifty of the complalnants were men.
/ II is interesting 10 note that in tho EN-
pre state OF the Is, 1886 divorced couples
/ in twentyyears 6,Sl1 were without child
rem. showing that It Is almost toss-up
whether the coming OF children Ia q
bar to divorce.
The census Of 1890 gave the number Of
divorced men In the biggest city OF the
country as 500, and of divorced women
b6i. AS to their ages. there were more
between thlrty-flve and forty-four
years old than OF any other age. There
were tweuty-three divorced husbands
over slxty-hve years old. and thirteen
divorced wives. In the state at large
there were more than 5000 divorced per-
sons living In 1890. New York city has
smaller proportion Of the divorced TO
the married than Chicago or even Phil
Rdelphia. The proportion of the divorced
living in the cities Is less than that In
the country at large by almost one-half
OF less than 100000 divorces granted
from 1867 to 1890, there were represented
In living persons In the latter year l2o,-
p96. OF these $4,000 were males and
10000 females, and this at a time when
there were 5000 more males than fe.
males living in tho country.
The general charges of cruelty gives
lhe widest scope for the play OF humor
and some other things in assigning
causes for divorce. When the charges
Rre brought by the husband the case Is
particularly pathetic. One man got a
i divorce because his wife kept insisting
that he was no man at all. A brow
beaten farmer sowed his grass In Au-
gust, which displeased his wife SO
much that che threw all OF the table
dishes out OF the window.
Ono mans wife was member OF the
Brotherhood OF New Life. managed by
The Thomas Lake Harris who played
Laurence Oliphant on his string, and
VINO isltvlng involvement in New York.
The chief OF the sect wouldn't give the
husband a permit TO live with his wife,
and set time three years distant when
Ihey should meet. Another mans wife
refused TO cook for him or sew on his
buttons. His neighborB testified that
they had seen him with only one button
m HIS waistooat This wife wouldn't
let hor husband go TO fires at night, and
when he did sneak away, she kept him
awake TIL o'clock In tho morning
sCOlding him.
A nice old man was pulled out Of bed
by his whIslers. Another husband had
hiS bedclothes jerked of him regularly
in the morning by his wife When that
didn't fetch him che jumped on him
with her knees. and then ran knitting
needle four inches In his leg. Then he
sued for and got his divorce. A judge
has granted divorce because wife
beat her husband severely with her bus
lie, thus causing him extreme bodily
anguish.
After being married twenty-five years
Gwite embraced tho spirit-rapplng doc
thine, and brought to her house divers
young men. chiefly drummers, which 80
hurt the feelings OF her spouse that he
tnt hla decree Of divorce, Another pala
were legally separated because the wife
regularly threw scaldlng tea Mt the nus.
band one patient long-sufferlng man
wouldn't get mad ut his WHO'S nagglng,
toshc hit him on the jaw and pulled on,
q handful Of his hair. one Of his locks
formed exhibit A In tho case.
m tho first morning after n certain
marriage the bride beat her husband
with her Rhoo heel He began suit ne
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