The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
THE DIVORCE MILL
shawnee District Court Was
Busy Last Month.
Bends of Matrimony Severed in
% Cases.
WOMEN DISSATISFIED
DISSATISFIED
They Appeared in Court With
Stories of Sorrow.
The Men Were Conspicuous by
Their Absence.

In the battle between the lures of
marriage and the love of freedom by
Divorces waged in the Shawnee county
court house during the month of Sep
tenber, the latter suffered marked re-
verses over the standing of the previous
month due to the rapid recruit of the
matrimonial forces by the probate
court.
Still the desertien from the yoke of
the marriage rule to the army of the
Divorces went on at an appalling rate.
1t Is hard to believe that it has been
worse than last month. but it has
The Shawnee records are fair aver
age for the. country over. Home folk
and strangers are married here. Cou-
pies who have been married here and
couples from over the country, after
staying a while separate here. As a
large proposition there is no good rea-
son why the Shawnee record will not
do as an average.
The September record of marriages
number 66. The average age of the
men is 80. that of the maids %. In
spite of the fact that the bold stroke
as an average, there is still a good
quota of brave young things who are
willing to take the risk at 20 and 10
years OF age.
The number of divorces. for the month
past is 23, but there is no exact method
'of computing the average age of the
divorces. he law requires no record
of the ages and they are conspicuous
by their absence. There is one good
source. however in the district court
here. The bailif who has watched
them come and so for years has grown
inter ested.
1.-The average age of the women this
month has been about 80 years." he
said yesterday Il have not seen
little girl of II lately as have come in
before"
Five years. then. we must say is the
length of the first marriage for one
third of the happy young brides who
climb into the midnight trains in
shower of rice.
And it IS always the woman who
comes in to take the witness stand and
tell her story of a mistaken union The
bailif saw no men-they are supposed
to be older than the women, that's ALL
They do not come in.
Abandonment is the cause of the
bulk of separations. After five years,
then abandonment. and young woman
On the witness stand to swear u things
which It is mighty hard to say. And
it is said to be the rule that this sort
of widows thrown out again into So
of the ways of the world not for it's
good. The fleeing mem on the other
hand go where they please to prey
upon other innocents The evils of
the habit which the law does not care
&c check make good topics for SER
r.ons.
The compiled list OF divorces for the
past month is as follows: May r.
Black from Aaron A. Black; Amanda
Mcdowell from Clarence z. mcdowell;
Eva Crume from Maxwell Crume; Net
tie B. Cambe1 from George T. Cam
bell; Christopher c. Daniel from Adah
Daniel; Laura v. Spendlove from Will
lam H. Spendlove; Josephine Weiss
Schroeder from Robert Charles Schroe-
der; Robert Iaggard from Nancy i1ag-
gard; c. w. Jackson from o. E. Jack
son; John Goodwin from Clara Good
win: Dorothy Pope from c. S. Pope; |