Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-04-18
DENVER AND DIVORCE.
Roomins Houses Said to Cause Al
the Trouble.

VIC TOO0tS.
In Colorado divorce has come TO b.
known by another name. and anyone
who does not want TO co,ne right out in
plain English are NOW referring to /;
AS the Denver habit
Even the reason why divorce should
be considered strictly II Denver failing
has also been found. II Is on account
of the transient population. Those big
'rooming and boarding houses are re-
isponsible for il all. A family decides to
move to Denve and once inside the
city gates the wife spies those impress
sive three-story fronts m which hang
Imposing brass name plates. She i'm
mediutely sees visions OF herself! sit
ting on that front porch mornings With
nothing to do cut ~ discuss the bar
gain sales or III" performance at
Bitches garden With ti. woman IN the
next chair. She thinks how white her
hands would be at the end of the SEA
son and OF how she could wear her
rings all day and il is all over. Moth
ing will do but That they must take
~ of those front suites with private
bath and live like white people" shs
tells hubby. But her rose colored Wis
ions never include amy special! views OF
what he may See. II they did she
would probably flee from tina, impress
sive sign as a stricken city does fton
the white plague and find some humble
little cottage where she would be priv
LEGGED to cook the very things she
he likes. and where she woulc
even wash dishes with Il grace that
would make the French embroidery or
the shirt waist she is working look like
old fashioned thread crochcting. Hubby
himself may not see the pictures at the
time. but there will undoubtedly be
some other attractive ONE sitting ON
that front Veranda OF evenings in
whose smiles he will be permitted IL
bask rather regularly while his wife
is busy talking over some particularly
interesting situation with il friend un.
TIL after a while the basking gets to be
a habit. one that she can't very we'll
doesn't look quite as pretty to IA mar
in a boarding house as she looks When
at her Thousand aHd-aae- little da44.asti H.
duties that form his conception of all
that Is really womanly and finally one
morning some business like looking pa
pers are filed and the papers announce
that another divorce suit is pending.
Day after day his story repeats
itself. And In nearly every case The
boarding house is at the bottom OF il
all. From the lowliest ones where the
lac curtains are faspy enough TO use
for match scratchers and the wall pa
per fairly shrieks out it's welcome 10
the most beautifully carpeted apart
ments with brass beds and flemish oak
cellarettes it is all the same. Denver
has the most boarding houses so 1t 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 one where
comfort reigns. il 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
horne something more than merely the
place where one hangs ones hat.