Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-22


woman while his wife was in hospital
at Fulton, suffering from a mental
| trouble.
| Mrs. James says positively she has
been married eight times, and has been
eight times divorced, but though she
searched her memory closely she could
name only four of the eight men. who,
she says, had been her husbands at diff
ferent times.
Has Forgotten Husbands
MY maiden name was Fannie Tar
rants" said Mrs. James. II lived with
my father in his log house two miles
from Calwood. My mother died when l
was just little girl.
II was just IS years old when I was
first married. am AZ now. My first
husband courted me in the old log
house, and every one of the others
has courted me theretoo.
my first husband was Moses Shaft
er. He was 20 years old when we were
married, Nose always seemed like a
good worker and thought ] was doing
well to marry him. We moved onto
the next farm to my fathers and
right away Moses showed me he wasn't
much of worker and he turned out
like tha rest. The whole pack and
'passel' of them wouldn't make half
way sort OF a decent husband.
II got a divorce from Nose because
he wouldn't work and l got tired of
working to support him. My next hus-
band? Let me see. The next was
John Berry. I'm pretty sure, though
it sort of seems like there was one
between him and Nose. Yes. John
was the next. He's dead now. ! can't
just remember when 1 married him,
but it was pretty soon after I got my
divorce from Nose. John wasn't any
better than Nose, and l left him be-
fore long and got a divorce.
Then 1 married Nose Smith. I'd
known him long time before mar
ried him, and thought he was all
right, but he was just like the other
after year or two / married Calvin
James. l thought sure was all right
then.
Calvin was a whole lot older than
I was. He was S3 and was SO. That
was in January, three years ago.
thought Calvin had a little money
saved up, and we could live On that
and I wouldn't have to work hard any
more. But he was worse than the
the same, while he loafed around and
did nothing.
IT got sick and they took me to the
hospital at Fulton. When / got we'll
and got back home found out how
Calvin had been smiling right smart
at another woman around here and
that was the straw that broke the
carnePs book. 1 left him and got a
divorce.
Marrying Is Mistake
Nov. how many's that? Only four?
Well, there was eight, all right, count
ing Calvin, and it seems funny that l
can't get the rest Of them. There was
Shaffer and Berry and then Smith,
and last James, but for the life of me
can't figure out where the others
came in.
''What do I think about marrying?
Well, I'm through with 1t all. There
isn't a man in this whole world who's
good enough for me- I've tried 1t
eight times and l know I've got four
children, two daughters married. and
two little onoS. OF course / love my
children and am glad I've got them,
but as for marrying again, there's no
man who'll ever lead be to the altar
again after what I've gone through
with.
mo, haven't got beau now, and
I don't want any of these men around
here to cople around me. I'm going to
live with my father. He needs me to
take care of him, and I'll do it, I'll
just go back to the old log house,
where / was born and raised. and
where / was courted by eight men,
and there I'll stay.
''I believe every woman would be bet
ter off If she didn't get married.
There's mighty little difference in men.
They are pretty much all alike. They
say nice things, and sing love songs, to
silly girls, and then after they marry
they expect the women to support them.
At least that's the way all I've had
done, and / guess l had about as good
a chance to pick a good one If there was
one as any girl has, especially out here
i nthe country.
Il say any girls fool who marries
"A man and then has to support him,
If she's got to work, she might as we'll
work for herself, instead of for
worthless husband and a 'passer of
children.
1.-THE Lord never meant for women to
work for men. If / had it to do over
again / wouldn't do II. I'd let them
starve first. OF course, my daughters,
the two Oldest, have done right we'll,
at least 1t looks that way now, but you
can't ever tell whatIl happen.
thought I'd done well for a while sew
eral times, and then saw what fool
I'd been"
Mrs. James still bears traces of a
beauty she undoubtedly had when a
girl. While she says she had few edu-
cational advan ages early I'm life, she
talks well, especially upon the subject
OF divorce. i'm which she has had un-
equaled experience. She has views on
the divorce question, saying IN response
10 questions:
"No, l am not in favor OF law
against divorces. II a woman under a
mistake has married a worthless man,
why shouldn't she have the right to
get free from him and try TO do bet
ter2 | am in favor OF divorces, ! can
see that anybody has been hurt by me
getting divorces from nay husbands
and it's right every woman ought to
have. It's the only way they've got tc
protect themselves"