Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-04-20

street cleaners began their WORK
throughout the city on Monday with
the active support of the Police de-
partment. Police were detailed In
many of the wards with orders to ar.
rest all viOlatOrs of the "clcan street"
ordinances. They were also directed
to notify janitOrs and pOrters who
have been accustomed to sweeping
refuse into the streets to stop.
During the morning sidney LOwcn-
thai. driver of a team, was arrested for
refusing to permit his wagon to he
moved by the street cleaners. He was
taken before Justice SABBATH and fined
so and costs. Since the weather grew
mild there have been fifty-tive arrests
/ of viOlatOrs of the ordinances prohibit
Ing the sweeping Of refuse into the
/ streets.
i Particular attention was paid to the
Ninth Ward. where iifty-nine men
were nj work. They were accOmpan-
led by u number Of policemen and
swept through the district unopposed.
Foresccing the time when the $780,
900 devoted by the Council Finance
Committee to keeping clean the Tween.
ty-frst Ward for 1901 will he exhaust.
cd. Aid. Minwegen II considering
means Of rcplenlshng 1t.
Interest In baseball seems to he
pretty general" the North Side Alder
man said. II shall challenge the FL
nance Committee. which was so eco
nOmical IN It's treatment of my ward. to
a game with the Committee on Streets
and Alleys North, the proceeds to go to
my ward
Aid. GOldzicr. the father of the anti
splitting ordinance, has made arrange
mcnts with the Health Department by
which placar1s giving the provisions
of the new law are to De printed and
placed In public places.
A Cleveland judge, commenting upon
the appalling" Increase In the num-
Der of divorces, says two-thirds of the
cases are due to early marriages. His
theory Is that the divorce courts are
kept busy because so many young peo.
pie marry before they are old enough
to form sensible views of matrlmOny,
and so he advises youths and maidens
to Ego SLOW" While the advice may
be good, the judges theory will not
stand investigation. Brides and grooms
are now good deal older, on the aver
age, than they We're few generations
ago. The increase of divorce cases has
been accompanied by decrease IN
early marriages. 4 century ago, when
divorces Were rare, 1t was customary
for girls to be married at the age of III
ana those who reached Is without find
ing husband were looked upon as al
ready beyond the danger line of spin
sterhOOd. A young man was expected
to marry about the age of q, ana i
was almost n necessity for him to dt
so. When he undertook to cultivat,
n farm he had to have the help of ,
woman to keep house for him. Their,
We're no fine bachelor apartment
where he could live and board in com
fort until he accumulated competenc,
and got ready to marry. That was tn,
, time of early marriages, but only II
: rare cases did women seek divorces
The increase of divorce suits by wOmel
Is due chiefly to the fact that wiye
| will no longer submit to treatmen
which they endured in silence n cen
fury ago. 4 recent list of divorce
granted to women on the ground o
"cruelty" throws more light on the sub
, | ject than the Cleveland judges rG
marks, One wife got n decree on tn
ground that her husband would no
take baths, thereby iniiictlng on plain
; tiff great mental anguish" Anothe
, wished to leave her husband becaus
, he had accused her sister of stealing
while still another complained that he
, feelings had been hurt by her spouse
, | remark that he did not care whethe
, she left him or not. One woman sal
her life was made a burden becaus
. her husband would not speak to her 70
!; months at time, another objected I
2 the mans practice of smashing dishe
, and crockery to relieve his feelings
third complained that her husban
forbade her to walk In public with he
;, relatives, and fourth said her hu,
!, band sharpened an AK and said he wa
going to cut her head off and did knoc
], out two of her teeth. i case of di
G ferent kind Is that in which the plall
!, tiff alleged that "the defendant. fl
the sole purpose of harasslng her, sal
:, he meant to suicide, and did then an
y there drink bottle of parcgorlc, whlc
y said action of defendant sorely grieve
plaintiff in body and mind" Fifty ,
!. a hundred years ago women did NJ
!; sue for divorce on grounds of this kin
J. and il they had done so their sui
\; would have been thrown out of cOur
+ They endured what could not be cure