The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-16
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SECURING A DIVORCE.
Strange Reasons Advanced
By An Old Couple
in London.

The grounds assigned by some people
for desiring to secure a divorce would
in many cases be amusing, were it not
for the fact that the subject is a much
more serious one than is generally ac-
cepted. The reason lately put forward
by an old couple in London is among
the strangest on record. says the Phila-
delphia Times.
The individuals in question were well
supplied with this worlds goods, had a
groWnup family, and were so circum-
stanced that they had everything neo-
essary to make life comfortable, 1t was
now, though after years of married
bliss, that the rift occurred. AS the
woman was siXty-three years of age,
and the man ten years her senior, it
was only natural that they should be-
gin to think Of the close of life, and ulti-
mately they began looking around in
the cemetery for a suitable spot for
their last resting place. They could not
agree, however, upon the site for a
grave, and, quarreling, decided to seek
a divorce. This took place in America,
and it seems a pity that a happy mar
ried life should be spoiled by quarrel
ing over death.
Last year a woman wanted to get rid
of her husband simply because he was
a teetotaler, and applied to a London
magistrate with that end in view. She
had been married nearly forty years,
and 1t was certainly rather late in life
to want to be single again. The lady
explained that she was accustomed TO
taking three half-pints of stout a day,
and her husband objected to such a
liberal supply. OF course, she did not
get what she wanted.
Quite recently, too, a Cincinnati man
applied for a divorce, assigning the
novel reason that his wife was incom-
plete. 1t appears the lady had a glass
eye, but his eyes had not been open
enough to detect the fact during court
ship. OF course, it is generally held that
love is blind, and possibly this accounts
for his failure to notice that both eyes
were not exactly alike. Somehow, the
glass one got broken, and when a bill
was sent to the husband for having it
replaced he awoke to the fact that his
better half was not quite all there. He,
therefore, left her and sued for a di-
vorce on account of the alleged fault.
Another case Is that of a Chicago
man who took action under rather pc
culiar circumstances. He gradually be-
came bald after marriage, and when
suing for divorce pleaded that matri-
mony was the cause of it. To support
his contention. he produced a photo
graph taken before marriage, showing
him to be the proud possessor of lux
uriant locks, and these had nearly all
disappeared, owing to the grasping
characteristics of his wife. She replied
that the badness was natural, and
that much of the hair had fallen out
when she was absent. Such a case af-
forded a splendid opportunity for ad-
vertising hair restorers, and the unfor-
tunate husband had numerous offers
of specialists warranted to make hair
grow on the baldest pate.
Occasionally a lady likes to have a
bath in the open sea, but q California
woman who transgreSsed in that direc-
ton had to appear in the divorce court
in consequence. By SO doing she offend
ed her lord and master, and he held
that there was no necessity for such a
step, seeing that there was an elegant
ly furnished bathroom at home, quite
sufficient for all her additions. She had
bathed with others in park lake. and
the thought that she had padded
around in the water with her bare feet
quite Disguised the poor fellow; conse-
Quently, as kind of consolation, he
1t seems to be a very simple matter
to get a divorce in this country hence
the many curious reasons put forward
from time to time. China, however, runs
this country pretty close, for there a
man may get rid Of his wife for
jealousy. theft, disobedience to his par
ents and talkativeness. Were the lat
ter regarded as a sufficient reason in
this country there would be very few
curtain lectures, we imagine.
Another curious case was dealt with
the other day, when a lady sued for di-
vorce on the ground that her husband
was actually her brother, and not her
cousin, as she imagined at the time of
her marriage. A very similar case also
comes from Hungary, where a marriage
between a couple has been declared null
and void
An important question was decided