The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-03-30
RENO REFUGE OF
HEAVY HEARTS
The Cordian Knot of Matrimony
Not Tight at All if You Can
Spend Six Months Under Neva-
da's General Laws-Crand
Danes, Actresses, Professionals
and Plain Bread Farmers in the
Throughput Reno Society
Snubs Them All.

Dakota amended it's residence requir-
ment from six months to one year,
Nevada sent Reno and Goldfeld to
the post in the Great Divorce Stakes
as a coupled entry.
Nevada started as a territory With
he loosest divorce. laws ever written,
md she didn't change them when she
became a state. Hence Reno is to
he unhappily mated what Mecca is
TO the Mohammedan. Matrimony's
Jordan knot is no mystery he"e. And
what is said for Reno goes for Gold
held, never heard of until TEX" Kick
ard Ttaged the first Gans-Nelson
light.
$50 in Divorce Colony.
Within the past six months 90 di-
vorces have been granted by Judges
w. II. A. Pike and John S. Orr Fifty
four cases are now on file. The di-
vorce colony numbers about $50, with
additions coming at the rate of six
week
Within the last six months, women
whose names are well known in va
rious ways have been divorced from
undesirable" husbands. The most
prominent are Mrs. Frederick Lewis
Colwell, Mrs. Keith Donaldson, Mrs.
Henry Spies Kip, Mrs. VIM. Lee Stod-
dart Mrs. Elihu b. Frost Ms Dan
iel Frohman (who was Margaret Ill
ngton), Mrs. Lucien C. Shellabarger.
Mrs. Raymond c. France, Mrs Claude
F. Day and Mrs. George Leeds Zell
The latest prominent arrival is Viz
gnia Harmed SOtherr.
Split em-asunder lawyers at home
advise fair clients to try Reno when
,luick action is wanted. Thew arm
them with an Introduction to local
rol respondents and are content that
the mills of the gods and Nevada ju-
risprudence will do the rest
Reno is Cosmopolitan.
Reno is cosmopolitan. The petted
laughter of the 400 and the darling
IF the theatre-going public rub
Parisian-gowned elbows with the
hlanket-draped sauaw.
Divorces are as thick as show
girls along the Great White Wav. You
see them, grand DANES, actresses.
newly foolish-weds, sufferers
from the affinity thing, artists. profess
sional and business men. The men
aren't so noticeable: thew lose their
identity so easily. But who eve" heard
of woman losing anything like an
identity?
The colonists. as the supplicants
are known, live apart from the Reno
ties. They have as much chance to
b, eak through societv's barrier as
high grader has of escaping il caught
with the goods. There is n reason.
Margaret llIington's Ambition.
a little more than a year ago Mar
ga~et Ellington Frohman came here
with her mother, to secure the resi-
dence necessary to apply for divorce.
She declared she was sick of the stage
and wanted to wed for Riddles and to
darn her husbands socks. Her ambi-
ton was IL children in Il years, she
said. Society took up Mrs. Froh-
man, and no sooner had her divorce
been obtained than she married, here
in Reno, Z. j. Bowes, of Tacoma. So
ciety was shocked and now divorce
can't break in with a stick of dyna-
mita
Why is Reno q haven for heavy
hearts? Read the answer in the
statutes:
502, Sec. o2.-Divorces from the
bonds of matrimony may be obtained
by COMPLAINT, under oath, to the dis
trict court Of the county in which
the cause shall have accrued. ar in
which the defendant shall re-
side. If the latter be either the coun-
ty in which the party last cohabited,
or in which the plaintiff shall have
resided six months before suit be
brought for the following causes:
And then it gives these causes in
addition to the statutory grounds;
Willful desertion at any time for one
year. Extreme cruelty. Neglect of
husband 70" one year to provide com
mon necessities, when not the result
Of poverty.
1t is not the grounds, but the ease
with which the courts find jurisdic-
ton, that makes Nevada a haven for
heavy hearts. If two want divorce
they leave a train in the state and one
commits an act of cruelty Neither
need be resident. Or the defendant
may be found" passing through the
state and served with papers. Or
either may reside in the state six
months.
Some of the Women Work.
or the colonists so per cent live
in the fine hotels of which Reno