Sunday Washington globe., 1901-12-22

General Robert C. Dyrenforth, Com.
nandcr-inchief Of the Union Veterans
Union, is up against it hard aud fast A few
weeks ago he filed a petition for divorce
from his wife, making serious allegations
against ha better half
The GLOBE, at the time, in Difference to
the position held by General Dyrenforth, re-
Trained from noticing his domestic troubles
hoping they might blow over and either an
amicable settlement or a quiet legal separa-
tiou be effected But the answer Of Mrs.
Dyreuforth, filed the past week, destroys
this hope and the matter will be brought 10
an issue in the divorce courts, hence the
GLOBE, seeing no further cause for silence,
gives as a matter of news the present status
of the case
Mrs. Jennie Dyrenforth the past week
through Attorneys D. w Baker and Wilton
J. Lambert, filed her answer to the bill for
divorce recently fled against her by Gen
Robert G. Dyrenforth Mrs Dyrenforth
denies that she has ever behaved in any
other way than wife should She declares
that complainant has always been Of an
irritable disposition and frequently confined
to his bed during which time she alleges,
she has always given him every attention
and has nursed him. II is denied that any
separation existed for a number of years,
Mrs Dyrenforth asserting that notwith-
standing the complainants ungovernable
temper and cruel treatment she was only
absent from him when necessary to educate
their children She says that not only has
complainant's treatment been intolerable,
but that he has assaulted aud injured her
and Is now endeavoring, she says, TO hu-
initiate her.
She denies that she ever used intoxica
ting liquor TO success or continuously, or
that she INDUCED in profane language or
any that was not proper It is denied that
defendant ever asked her husband for
money other than what was necessary for
household expenses, aud she emphatically
denies that she contracted bills with trades
people to the detriment or annoyance of
the complainant The defendant says She
did not urge the removal of the family
from the Mount Pleasant house
She also denies that she has any knowl-
edge Of the contents of a will made bv
complainant In February, 1900, she de-
clares, she was violently assaulted by COM
plainant with a stick, he wounding her so
that physician had to be summoned The
A~ANAAhAAA dAaR bAanAd db ldANE lnE alleGH-
tion that she ever expressed wish for his
death It is further alleged that their
children Mary Elizabeth and Robert C.
Dyrenforth are being detained by their
father against their will
1t is alleged that complainant has refused
10 pay his wife $50 per month and that She
has received nothing since November I.
She has ouly some personal property, given
itf.r nv epfurtfofUaut years ao~, ,r.orti,
5000.
The defendant declares she is of the
Roman Catholic faith and is therefore un.
ataraby opposed to divorce She prays
tha, the bill be dismissed with costs.
By the crossbill which Is filed in the same
SUIT the defendant refers 20 her answer to
the original bin aud adopts the charges
therein contained relative TO profane lam
guage and harsh treatment Size cites sew
eral additional alleged acts of cruelty.
claiming that about six years ago the com
plaiuant knocked her down in the street
and used profane language toward her. She
further declares complainant is an opium
eater; that he has frequently been intimate
with other women and has, it is alleged
tried to bring women of i'll repute to his
home
The court is asked to require the COM
plainant to return TO the defendant the chill.
dren referred to and to decree the payment
Of proper sum per month for the support
Of herself and children.
The church of Rome is ever preaching
the evil of mixed marriages THAT is
where one of the contracting parties is a
Protestant and the other a Roman Catholic.
and Rome finds plenty of illustrations in
our divorce courts to substantiate its alleRa-
tion In the present case of Mrs. Dyren-
forth she must oppose the divorce of her
husband however much she may want to
separate from him, because her church
opposes divorce on any but the one unpar-
donable sin-adultery aud while she
charges Gen. Dyrenforth with this sin she
still on conscientious grounds opposes the !
divorce, as from the Catholic point Of view
marriage is a relation for good or IN which
ought and can only be properly dissolved
by death And it is a healthy view too, of
the sacred relation which God ordained
should exist between husband and wife.
Married by the squire and divorced by a
ten dollar attorney" is not calculated to
build up Nation and encourage the only
life worth living-the sacred family relation
of the pure home.