The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
CuRIosrT1Es or DlvoRCx.

CURIosIT1Es or DIVORCE.
 Napoleon declared that every man In the ranks carried in his knapsack . marshal's baton. Victor Newman. . clever English artist. deciares that every American girl tucks dtvorce papers Into her trousBeau.
 whether the charge be just or un- just. certain 1t is that the American woman proves-almost as fertile in the matter of excuses for securing di- vorce as she is in marshaling wiles with which, to net . husband. For while scarcely more than . round grounds for divorce. even in this coun- cry Of liberal and varied state divorce laws. the average woman can interpret the most common cause, cruelty" in . hundred and more ways. each of which will go straight to the hearts of judge and jury. Some examples of her in- genuity are printed in an article pre- pared by Anna Steele Richardson for The New York World,
 For instance. the Superior Court in Seattle, Wash. was recently asked to decide whether dyspepsia and "cru- city" wer esynonymous terms.
 Harriet Bendick Kohl was culinary artist. Aher V. Kohr.. her husband. was dyspeptic. So long az Mir. Kohl stuck to a diet he was . companion- able spouse. When he yearned fer some of his wife's tidbits he would surely fall from grace and into . tam trum.
 one Sunday he induced his wife to make waf1ies. After eating plentifully of these. floating in maple swyup. he threw the family canary in It's cage though the window. A batch of es- pecialiy fine soda biscuits led him to stay fom his diet, and that afternoon he kicked the family watch dog into the neighmbor,s bak yard. When no family pet was at hand. Mrs. Kohl was the butt of>his dispieas- ure and dyBpeptic rage. After eating strawberry shortcake, MT. Kohl ac- tually refused to speak to his wife for forty-eight hours. Mrs. Kohl urged this ingratitude for her culinary abil- ity so effectively that divorce on the grounds Of cruelty vas granted.
 + + Mrs. Anna M. Hodge of Pittsburg secured s decree because her husband limited the daily bill of fare. breakfast. dinner and supper. ss5 dafs in. the year. to sausages and rice pudding. He throve on the diet. but Mrs. Hodge called it cruelty. and the court agreed with her. t Mrs. J. B. Stetson of San Francisco. in applying for divorce from e trac- ton nagnate of the fars West. cited as cruelty" the fact that she had to eat pumpkin pie three times a day and was denied the privilege of adding soup and salad to the family msna.
 4 CT Mrs. Harry, Maremount's divorce from q Chicago carriage maker was due largely to difference of opinion over sauerkraut. She liked sauerkraut, but her husband could not endure the smell of 1t. When she persisted In cooking 1t. he struck her and fled from their home in anger. ,ss.
 Mrs. Joseph T. Colvin of Pittsburg secured a divorce because her husband, a prominent secret society man and an ali-round good fellow. insisted upon supplying champagne when she asked for bread The court agreed that no woman could live on champagne alone.
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 ' Tn the little town of Union. Bergen County, ". J., MT. and Mrs. Theron C.. Knapp amiably agreed to secure divorce because Knapp. in a moment of extravagance. brought home a box or prepared codfsh. Mrs. Knapp had ai- ways humored her husbands fondness for codsfih cakes with the good oid- fashioned brand of codfisa which you soalr over night ana pick by hand.
 shocked by his extravagance In buy fnr the prepared article, she pulled his hair. The records do net show which constituted cruelty, the eodnsh pur- chase or the hair psiiiing. xA
 A Marquette (Mich.) man cited as one instance of cruelty in, his petition invariably refused to make for him lemon pie, of which .deIicacy he was extremely mond, much to his dtscom- fort the papers set forth.
 Family pets have often figured in petitions for .divorce.s Mrs. Andrew Mahu, of Alton. H.. had forty picked Legnorns which she kept at the rear of her cottage. Her landlord served notice that his property could not be converted into a ehicken ranch Her husband announced that he could not afford to sacrifice his trade as piano tuner by moving into different neigh borhood.
 The two had been married fifteen years, but Mrs- Mahu calmly packed up her personal property, including the
  Mahu to the cola comfort of 6 divorce court. s
 William B. lEntrinikin of Chicago. ob- jected to the attentions shDwered on Q French poodle by his wife. and took 1t out on the poodle, to the latters physi- cal discomfort. Wheres1pon Mrs En- trinlxin took herself tb. the divorce court. with .cruelty'' for her open sesame. Ss
 On the other hand. Mrs. Leroy Morgan. of Marion, Ina, secured divorce be- cause her husband insisted on having his pet dog fop bedfellow.
 MT. and Mrs. George B. ,Abram oi Detroit, Mich. also parted over dog Each claimed the family pet as indi- vidual property and both bought tiny brass license tags. The dog disappear ed and each accused the other of kid