The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-19
DENVER AND DIVORCE.
aoomine Houses SAID to Cause Al

tc ITCuOle.
In Colorado divorce has come TO he
known by another name. and anyone
who does not want TO come right out in
plain English are now referring 10 it
as the Denver habit"
Even the reason why divorce should
be considered strictly q Denver failing
has also beer found. 1t is on account
OF the transient population. Those big
roo1nins and boarding houses are re-
sponsible for II all. A family decides to
move to Denver and once inside the
city gates the wife spies those impress
sive three. story fronts on which hang
Imposing brass name plates. She i'm
mediately sees visions of herself sit
ting on that front porch mornings with
nothing to do but to discuss the bar
gain sales or the performance at
Bitches garden with the woman in the
next chair. She thinks how whit her
hands would be at the end Of the sea-
son and of how she could wear her
rings all day and it Is all over. Moth
ing will do but that they must take
one OF those front suites with private
bath and live like white people," she
tells hubby. But her rose colored Wis
ions never include any special views of
What he may see. If they did she
would probably flee from tina impress
slve sign as a stricken city does from
the white plague and find some humble
little cottage where she would be priv
LEGGED to cook the very things she
Knows he likes, and where she would
even wash dishes with a grace that
would make the French embroidery on
the shirt waist she IS working look like
old fashioned thread crocheting. Hubby
himself may not see the pictures at the
time, but there will undoubtedly be
some other attractive women sitting on
that front veranda of evenings in
whose smiles he Will be permitted to
bask rather regularly while his wife
is busy talking over some particularly
interesting situation with a friend I'M
I'll after a while the ba,sking gets to be
a habit, n hat she can't very we'll
get along without. Some way a wife
doesn't look quite as pretty to a man
in a boarding house as she looks when
at her thousand and one little domestic
duties tina form his conception of ali
that is really womanly and finally
morning some business like looking pa
pers are filed and the papers announce
that another divorce suit is pending.
Day after day this story repeats
itself: And in nearly every case the
boarding house is at the bottom of it
all. From the lowliest ones where the
lace curtains are raspy enough to use
for match scratchers and the wall pa
per fairly shrieks out it's welcome to
the most beautifully carpeted apart
ments with brass beds and flemish oak
eeilarettes it is all the same. Denver
has the most boarding houses so it is
Denver that has the divorces. Men are
much alike the world over. They are
all of them domestic creatures whose
love Of home, provided it is enc where
comfort reigns, is stronger than any
thing else and the woman who would
come out with flying colors must re-
member this. She must be domestic
without being a drudge and she must
value above everything else those lit
tie Understandable things that make
home something more than merely the
place where one hangs ones hat.