The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24

mapping dear little Bessie. The cooker 1 spaniel hlater appeared as exhibit A
 in the divorce trial. :. Gottieib Herring. of Muskegon Mich. gave his wife her freedom and t12s in Alimony 5because she insisted upon hay. ing her .Angora cat share their couch. which gaye poor 0oftiieb. . creepy feel ing. Theresa stcutly insisted that her cat--pius the aiimony-was worth Justice of the peace William B. wil- Hams. of Montclair. N. J.. tried in vain to make peace between couple whose names he refused to divulge. but who
 were separating because the wife fn-
 sisted on kissing her cat good night.
 Differences over the site of their
 home have led many couple to the
 divorce court. In Chicago, Willis
 Howe, manager Of the Palmer House
 for twenty years. and later manager of
 the virginis. sscured . divorce because
 his wife refused to live in Chicago and
 he refused to leave the Windy City.
 She said that after Vienna and Paris.
 Chicago was cruelty. Her husband dubbed :, her actions "desertion," and
 both won their point--a divorce.
 Kisses. though quite within the mat
 rimoniaI law. have been known to pass
 as cruelty. Poor Arthur Kehr. Chi
 cago musician. sued fer divorce because his career a breadwinner was inc terrupted by hfs wife's appetite for kisses. 1T could not elude that con- stant cry of Arthur. kiss mel" he said in his complaint. T was . prisoner at there earned just s4.20. had to run away, and after sixteen days of over
 kissing. I applied for divorceu." On the other hand. Mrs. Henry Dodg- CTS, of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.. ap- piled for q divorce on the ground that her husband. who holds prominent l'Corporatfon. no longer kissed her on leaving home and returning. Vice. Chancellor Garrison, of Jersey City. dismissed the complaints because ''the | wrongs complained of arc Of senti-
 mental nature. and the Court of Cham
 cery has no Jurisdiction"
 When Mrs. Frederick w. 'Maschmey- CT. of St. Louis begged Judge Hough l to grant her divorce on the grounds that her husband cruelty refused to kiss her, the judge was incredulous, for she was lovely and altogether kiss
 able. but when he learned that the res fusal to bestow the longed-for kisses ! was the outward and visible sign of an inward and almost perpetual grouch l the judge decided that here was case
 of cruelty indeed.
 Children often appear in petitions al
 reasons for divorce. Prof. George " Burns, a teacher in the public schools of Cincinnati. secured divorce be-
 cause his wife, having borne him ter children. refused to have any further
 additions to the family.
 I MT. and Mrs stcshsslis cshsslisss sSS% SsnHSaaSS HSaSss of Los Angeles, had 'naade an assnte-anp tiaI agreement that they9were to have no children Mir. NeuEn6n. After { Few years, changed his mind on the sub | ject. but Mrs. sNeuman did mot, and
 returned to her home and mothsr. Mrs. Hamilton Fries, of Stonetown N. l.. thought her husband ought to | walk the floor with the babx when tthe latter so desired, especially after night | fall. Hamilton declared that. after | covering 750.000 miles of carpet lin | the wee small hours. he was justified in
 striking. Mrs Fries and the baby de-
 cided that papa must either walk or
 lose lem. Papa lost.
 But Rudolph Bartzat, Jr.. of Lincoln Neb., thought his wife was going some when she sold $2o baby buggy for ! $1 in order to buy Q ticket for q the- | atrical performance. He said he sdfd not mind having her sell an occasional
 article of furniture to buy . new gown cut he drew the line att her selling | xrrf.a .af har had erfVan thatF hv CT case of home and mother for hers. | The most innocent pleasure carried !! 10 excess, may be counted as an ex-
 hibit in a divorce case. Mrs. J. W.
 Smith. of Bellefontaine. o.. sat up in
 bed at night to roll and smoke cigar cites, and her husband secured a df-
 vorce. Mrs. Grace c. Markell of
 Scranton, Pa.. secured divorce be- cause her husband would not permit her to dance with other men. and talk ed out loud about it. too. thereby cru
 ely embarrassing her in public.
 Joseph A. Kuntz, a New York brew
 CT, is what the professional firemen
 call "a bluff.". He lived opposite the l fire house, and no matter what hour l an alarm rang. he followed the en- zines. This disturbed the slumbers of | his wife, who. after enduring the ex-
 citement for Tour years, applied for q
 divorce.
 George G. Genereaux. of Oakland Cal, entertained his men friends al poker in the family woodshed. When | his funds ran low he stepped into the house and borrowed of the family ex- chequer. Ills wife said this cut of the | supply of household. delicacies, and she secured her decree without trouble. I
 Jules Joseph Moquette and his wife of Newark. N. J.. split over socialism and his wife said she would not be kept | awake nights listening to his tirades | on the subject. MT. and Mrs. Victor l Johnson of St. Louis, split because he | wanted to do the homework and lei
 her seek a job downtown" She said
 she wanted, to make the biscuits and
 broil the steak herself.
 Charles F. Healy. of Chicago, must
 have been a good natured person, be- l cause when his wife was i'll and her