New-York tribune., 1905-11-19

turn up the gas In the room to its highest pitch
and keep 1t there for three or four hours. When
he had part to learn she would mimic
him and otherwise interfere with his memoriz-
ing. She finally declared she was going to CON-
nit suicide and got out a bottle of carbolc
acid. AS she raising it TO her lips she
changed her mind and threw the bottle at him.
the acid burning him badly
She butchers the English language every time
she opens her mouth" was the recent complaint
OF husband before Western court.
Don't believe him, judge" declared the wife,
1--WE was happy plenty before him got to going
with another woman"
I've offered to send her to school, so that she
could qualify herself to converse with me-" con-
tinued the husband, but she refuses to 60"
The judge finally granted a divorce.
He's liner Judge said little woman out
in Ohio few weeks ago. He belongs to more
lodges than he has fingers. and his being out
every night is the of trouble"
''She locks out when I'm out at lodge
meeting" complained her husband. when she
nailed up the door with tenpenny nails | left
her"
During our whole married life" said another
wife, my husband has never once offered to
take out driving This has been source OF
great mental suffering and injury" She ad-
Tnitted that he had not taken other women TO
drive, and the judge refused the divorce
The complaint in another petition filed by the
wife, was that the husband quoted verses from
the New Testament about wives obeying their
husbands. He has even threatened to mash
the plaintiff and has drawn back his hand to do
it.
Mrs Moke Smith, of Calwood. Callaway
Comfy Mo, has been married six times and has
four living husbands. She may well be con-
sidered an authority on divorce, yet she is able
to sum up the reason for her domestic troubles
in a very few words:
with all my gettin' married I've never owned
a who killed hog or took a turn of corn
to the mill
She intirnated further that she would always
see to it that she was in position to get her
freedom on the ground of mon support. She
declared that her present husband knew this
and "behavin' hsself
A wife recently demanded a divorce because
her husband never, almost never, came home
, before 10 o'clock, and then he kept her awake
talking nonsense. Still another wife demanded
a divorce because her husband kept saloon.
which sorely grieves the mind Of the plaintiff.
what did he do when you married him."
was one of the questions at the trial.
oh, he kept saloon, but I've got religion
since, and just can't stand it, the wife de-
Clare0.
A husband accused his wife's sister Of theft.
and the wife promptly made the injury to her
feelings and those of her sister a ground for
divorce. Still another wife asked for release
from marriage ties because her husband insisted
on filing his house with his kin folk, whom she
did not like but had TO entertain.
The Utah courts record the strange case OF
Hope Gddings, who after having been divorced
twice on cruelty charges, brought a suit for
$50, 900 because a third suitor broke off an en-
gagement She said that the man frequently
visited her at her home on the county road. and
that he had repeatedly asserted that he loved
her better than hot cakes, and of them he was
lust terrible fond" She admitted that she had
led him up to the proposal by preparing gener-
Gus supplies of cakes
After being out for three hours the jury de-
Ifvered this remarkable verdict:
I'VE. the jury, find the defendant In this