Blue-grass blade., 1908-06-14

porter that came across his path and pumped
HIM so full of hot air about brigands and bibles
that the poor scribe actually came to believe
it and gave the story all the necessary trim
mings to make it appear of the sensational
sort and play the preacher up strong. Like
actors and actorettes, the preachers must
get advertisement. The returning missionary
racket is good way, though trihe stale.
When young men, students in modern coi-
lege, full of ambition and life, organize them
selves into club the avowed purpose OF
which it to mutually combine in hating the
m ,mbers of the fair sex, there is something
radically wrong with their makeup. The uni
versa law is that the male shall seek, the
female be sought. OF course there are excep.
tons to every law, to every rule and it is said
that sometimes the exceptions go far toward
proving the rule.
From the press dispatches we learn that
woman Haters Club has been formed by
few male students at Pennington Seminary
in New Jersey. The cause of it's formation is
said to be that its members were unable to
win obtain notice from the fair co-eds
during reception and the Club came into
existence means of retaliation. The Blade
would inter that the fault lay with the men,
and failing to see the matter in it's true light,
they soured upon all women including girls
and adopted joint resolutions to refuse speak,
ing to anything that wore dresses. After all,
when the facts fully considered, it may
prove the best thing that could possibly hap
pen to the ladies', provided the members OF
the Club will stick by their agreement But
even in a case like this human weakness will
betray itself, for the dispatches inform
us that three of the Club members have been
expelled for violating its principle obligation
and were actually caught making love. The
most the club could ever boast were eleven
members and its membership just eleven
more than it ought to have been at the start.
An automatic re-active ex-post-facto d.
vorce is the latest novelty in the line of judi
cial Intervention between husband and wife,
and this innovation from Lawton Ok
lahoma, If reports be true. 1t appears that
a farmer carrying the of z. d. Phell
obtained judgment of divorce from his wife
The cause is not stated, nor IL 1t made to
appear that the wife made any contest. How
ever, the story goes that the divorce was
granted and the judgment went into full force
and effect. Retributon, or regret or is it
possible that the fire of love had not altogether
died out of his heart but in any event it was
something that influenced him, for it is now
reported that the male Divorce instituted pro,
ceedings upon his own motion to have the
judgment annued with a view of enabling him
to live once again with his former wife. So far
as we have been able to learn the wishes OF
the lady have not been stated.
Just as the mad Dane is said to have been
controlled by method" or possessed OF a
motive, so it appears that farmer Phell had a
motive for going back to the halls of justice
to have the divorce judgment annulled. He
wanted the woman and he didn't want her.
He wanted to get rid of her so bad that he
filed petition against her and got what he
asked for Having had his wishes gratified
he sought to back-track, but insisted upon
the right to hold the divorce judgment
the head of his wife. ready to be put into
operation at his suggestion. which could be
converted into sort of domestic club in the