Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-06-28

vile mouse, LOT, strange do ~ mo9
seem, the choicest comedy is often en-
acted in the courts and pathos is an
almost invariable accompaniment OF
the story told by those seeking salts
faction at the bar of justice. I'M
agination cannot conjure up more ludi-
crous absurdities than are brought
every day in plain straightforward
accounts of family jars. One woman
asks release from her husband because
he belongs to too many clubs. An
other demands separation because her
husband won't take her places" and
buy ice cream for her. as he did when
he came counting A husband sues
ond objects to his spouse's sleeping
with razor under her pillow.
The funniest divorce case Of the past
few weeks occurred in Kansas City the
other day, when Mrs. Emma Murphy
sought separation from her husband,
j.. R. Murphy. By the testimony of
two young lady friends of the family
it was shown that Mr.. Murphy refused
to wash his face except once week,
on the family washday. Mrs. Murphy
was fastidious, and life with an I'M
washed husband became unbearable..
Because his first-born was girl in.
stead of boy, Charles P. Stevenson of
Pittsburg changed from a kind and
loving husband to a mate so dissipated
and quarrelsome that divorce was the
only way to secure peace, according to
the story told by his wife. He said he
didn't care for girls and didn't want
to raise any, and he considered his wife
q failure.
His wife, Emma, always slept with a
razor under her pillow, and Henry
Schwakopf of Washington, D.: c..
wanted the ties that bound them cut in
twain. She never made threats to, use
the razor and, indeed, refused to say
what it was for, but the mere fact of
its being there Jared Henry's nerves
to such an extent that he was driven
to the courts for relief.
The dreadful moving habit lost
husband for Mary c. Webster of Cleve-
land. Every once in while She
would be afflicted with the desire to
indulge in this destructive vice, &C.
.cording to the statements of her hus-
band Frank Webster, and would forth
with sell some of the furniture and
move. When Frank came home of
evenings he often had to inquire Of all
! the neighbors to find out where he
| lived, and he got tired of it, so one day
he sold the rest of the furniture and
bought divorce.
Horsewhipping her husband at regu-
lar intervals in the presence of an in
terested crowd of spectators at Allan
ia, Ca, was the diversion that cost
husband, Robert She also, he said,
clawed, bit and struck him at home,
and he was by disposition a peacable
man, therefore, he prayed for release
from the silken bonds of matrimony,
with permission to tie himself up
again to smaller woman.
Laziness was the charge upon which
Mabel Primm of Cleveland secured a
divorce from her husband, DR.. Henry
Primm He refused to answer calls at
night under any circumstances, she
alleged, and often would not respond
| to calls in the daytime, because he was
busy lying on the lounge reading nov.
els.
His propensity for whiting, while
his wife did the work, caused Pearl H.
Hines, well-to-do farmer living near
Bellefontaine, Ohio, to be sued for di-
yorce and alimony That's all he did,
she claimed, just whitfield, morning,
noon and night, and his wife, Lena,
grew weary of doing all the farm work
| herself.
Because her husband threw her false
teeth into the fire and hid her false
hair in the pig sly, to keep her from
being beautiful enough to shine at the.
social functions in the neighborhood,
Mary s. Kremlin filed petition for
divorce at Napoleon, Ohio, and public
sympathy was with her.
| Thomas Tremper of Evansville:. Ind,
stayed at home with his wife of. even
| ings, and his wife, who was once the
belle of Boonville, could not break him.
cared for nothing but home after their
marriage, she complained, and she
wanted him to take her places' as
he did in the happy days of their court
| ship.
Happy couples in sensational and ro-
mantle marriages nearly always find.
their way to the divorce courts event.
ually.
| Ten years ago Mrs. Clara NJ. Butts.
| then handsome young girl, went to,
Nebraska with her parents, and soon
afterward married noble red man
who worked ON her fathers farm.
John Butts, the noble red man, proved
| to be several shades more abusive than
| white man could possibly have been.
and when he grew tired Of her wound
up with the civilized trick of desertion.
She told the story of her folly to the
courts of Akron, Ohio her old home.
and got divorce in record time.
ship.
Mrs. Philip Scully. once Miss Jessie
Barnard Of Fall River. Mass. ran away