Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-24

rear that those old }at-eaters thought
more Of their doggy than they did Of
their wives. Probably the dogs So
cured for them theft favorite rodentian
fare.
In Morocco mhn may leave his
wife on the slightest provocation, and
marry again. Del Churcher writes:
Zone of the servants here is reported
to have had 10 wives already, though
he is still only middle aged" An
; other writer says THAT among the Moors
it is considered 'ldw" for couple to
live too long together, and the icaders
of fashion are thoise who have been
the oftenest divorced.
Pollak tells usl that in Persia
"Sighe"' wife is taken in marriage for
/. legally stipulated period, which may
! be Of any length from one year to 80
years. In Greenland, husband and
wife are allowed to separate after liv-
ing together for six months. The
Maldivians are SO fond of matrimonial
change that cases are frequent where
man marries and divorces the same
woman three or four times.
| In France, in 1892, during the reign
of terror, the national convention tried
the experiment of allowing divorce at
the free will of the parties concerned.
| The result was shocking. During the
twenty-seven months Immediately fol-
| lowing the enactment of the new law
no less than 5000 divorces took place
in Paris alone, and the matter grew
steadily worse until in 1897 the div
orces actually outnumbered the mar
riages In 1898 the act was amended.
Writing of this period, the historian,
! Duval says: Couples divorced for a
yes for no; they divorced under
the least provocation without any more
ado than they would have to go to st.
Cervais, or to eat cherries at Mont
morency"
Judge Cowley tells us that the first
act under which marriage could be dis
| solved by judicial decree in any de-
| tendency of the English crown, was
passed by the general court of Massa
chusetts, in 1899 The new court of
assistants appointed by that act did
not have long to wait before exercising
its new prerogative, for at its first
meeting the following case was de-
cided:
flames Luxford being presented for
having two wives his last marriage
: vas declared void, or a nulity thereof,
and to be divorced, not to come to the
sight of her whom he last took, and
| he to be sent away to England by the
| first opportunity; and all that he hath
| is appointed to her whom he last mar
RED for her and her children; he is
also fined G100, and to be set in the
stocks an hour upon market day
after the lecture"
In almost all the States of our union
! divorces may be obtained for cruel and
inhuman treatment. 1t is interesting to
see what has sometimes been so con-
sidered. In one case a court granted
divorce to a wife because her husband
would net wash himself. In a second
case it was allowed the plaintiff be-
cause the defendant had said to her,
after they had been married twenty
seven years: You are old and worn
| out; l don't want you any more"
In another instance a woman who
was subject to sick headaches, which
grew worse when she smeled tobacco,
was allowed divorce because her hus-
! band smoked. The amusing plea was
made by another woman that her hus-
band would never cut his toenails, and
so every night she was severely
scratched.
fifth instance is where the plaintiff
secured a divorce because her little
man insisted on quoting to her pas
sages of Scripture and reminding her
| in the language Of the Apostle Paul
| that she should be obedient to ner
| husband.
| Some years ago a Kentucky victim
! of mans Inconsistency set forth her
| plant in a petition for divorce in this
! style:
Dark clouds of discord began to
! lower over the sky of welded felicity,
and the minacious lightning of dis
union began to dart it's lurid flames
| across the gloomy clouds or ornamental
| blackness, obscuring every star of
hope and happiness whose Respondent
glory Illuminated the dawn Of the first
few brief years of her welded life,
when she gave her hand and in undiv-
ided heart to the defendant who in
| the sultry month of July, 1876, after