The San Francisco call., 1906-09-12
KISS REFUSED AND
LIFE IS EMPTY.
Young Bride Fails to Find
Happiness With Husband
and Sues for d Divorce
HIS HEART is COLD

shattered in the case of Bertha Myers,
according to the sorrowful tale set
forth in a complaint for divorce against
Julius Myers, filed yesterday in the
office of the County Clerk Less than
ave months have passed since Bertha
Pincus renounced her maiden name to
become Mrs. Myers, but in that short
time her husband has refused to kiss
her good might, has scoffed at her
embroidery and done many other things
to cause her grievous mental suffering.
Her visions of marital happiness have
disappeared and, in addition to the
pain and humiliation she has under
gone, her fair fame and good name, in
her own estimation, at least, have been
! irretrievably lost
Mr.. and Mrs. Myers were welded in
San Francisco on May Is OF this year
and soon afterward went to Oregon.
1t was in Oregon City on an evening
early in July that the crisis came Mrs
Myers was about to retire for the night
and throwing her arms about her hus-
band in loving and affecttonate man
ner attempted to implant on his lips
the goodnight kiss But, according to
her account. her advances were re-
PEELED and, instead of the kiss, she
received a shove which caused her to
fall to the floor, sustaining bodily in
! Juries which were secondary only to
the wound in her heart
HANDIWORK NOT APPRECIATED.
! Again early in July in Portland,
! she says, she showed her husband a
! piece of embroidery she had just fin
I ished, but that he took her arm and
showed her away with the remark that
! 1t amounted to nothing and neither did
she. More grievous mental suffering
resulted
# Pra 70
of her husbands parents, she claims
to have overheard her new mother-in-
law state to neighbor: II feel sorry
for my son, Julius. He has married
a girl who does not know how to cook,
and now my son goes around with a
stone in his heart" When she reported
this chance remark to her husband she
was informed that If she did not like
the way his folks treated her she had
better go home.
So things went on until late in July,
Mrs. Myers stating that she was told
plainly time and again that she was
no longer the object of her husbands
fond affection. He advised her then
to return to her home in San Francisco
to wait until he could furnish a home
for them in the North She came, and
a letter to her brother from her hus-
band followed shortly afterward. 1t
was a. repetition of the avowal re-
SdTQinS tHe passing OF neT nuSDdnQS
love, and Mrs. Myers thought it over
alone and hunted up an attorney.
A KISS THAT MEANT DEATH.
That his wife permitted their infant
son to kiss another baby suffering from
the whooping cough, against his own ur
gent objections, and that a result the
little one contracted the disease and
died, is one of the charges made by
William Carlson. tanner, living at
2425 Twenty fourth street, in an an
swer and cross-complaint to suit for
divorce brought against him by Sophie
Carlson. who accused him of extreme
cruelty. The young daughter of the
belligerent parties and her sweetheart
also figure prominently In the details
of family history as set forth in the
complaint.
The parties to the suit were married
in 1884, but the last few years of their
welded life have been anything but
happy ones. Carlson claims that his
wife encouraged their daughter, Selma
Irene, to treat him with disrespect and
| aided her in her efforts to keep COM
pany with Alfred Francis, a young
man to whom Carlson seriously OBJ
jected. He says that when he finally
ordered Francis away from the house
his wife and daughter also packed up
their personal belongings and left.
Carlson denies, however, that on May
Z, when the worst of the trouble oc-
Cured. he ordered his daughter to
leave home or told visitor that she.
was "a cat" and that she was mo
good He also denies threatening to
kill his wife. choking her, or prevent
ing her from associating with her sis
ter, as alleged by her in her original
petition. He says that his wife has
often called him vile names, and that
on one occasion she attacked him and
scratched his face so that he was
forced to grasp her wrists in order to
protect himself Carlson states that
his wife Is a dressmaker, amply able
to care for herself. and asks that her
petition for alimony be refused.
OTHERS WANT SEPARATIONS.
Francis f. Christy was yesterday
granted a divorce by default from Eva
Cbristy on the ground of willful deser-
tion. The case was heard in Judge
Hunts court
Judge Trout gave an interlocutory
decree of divorce to Ida Roster, who
charged Christopher Roster with ex-
treme cruelty.
Nettie Roberts was granted an inter-
locutory decree of divorce from Chris
C. Roberts in Judge Hosmers court
on the ground of desertion.
William B. Moss wants a divorce
from Rafaela Moss on the ground of
desertion.
Jeanette Duff has filed a complaint
for divorce against George W. Duff, to
whom she was married in May, 1908
Infidelity is charged. Julia T. Clancy
being named as correspondent.
Arthur McKeown wants divorce
from Ellen McKeown, whom he says is
a victim of habitual intoxication He
says that she sells the provisions pur-
chased for the home and uses the
money for whisky. and that instead of
turning the kitchen utensils to culi-
nary purposes she converts them into
weapons.
Anna Renati has filed suit for divorce
from Antonio Renati on the ground of
cruelty.