The daily sentinel., 1910-06-27
JUDGE ROASTS WOMAN
IN DIVORCE APPLICATION /

in III OhCE hffLlOa 1lON
did you know, madam, that
woman can make out of man what
ever she wants to- Did that ever
occur to you, now or before you con-
cIuded to bring this divorce2 | don't
believe YOU ever thought of it.
Witnesses who come into court
voluntarily to give testimony in an
effort to break up a home ought to
be ashamed of themselves. That is
the view this court takes OF such
proceedings. l do not believe that
this plaintiff has been beaten up. as
She says; neither do | care to hear
anything more about this case. This
court is a good judge of human ma
ture, and the court is aware thai
there is too much of witnesses com
ing in and testifying in these mat
tiers.
The court believes that these
young people should be living to-
gether at home as husband and wife
and that a divorce is not necessary.
When a husband and wife are as
young as are this husband and wife
they sometimes need the counsel OF
older persons. Ii seems that was not
had in this instance
"A young wife should think more
about her husband and her baby than
she does about a ball game. When
she does not, it is apitiful condition
of affairs. There is too much friyol-
ity these days among young people,
especially young women who marry
youHg men who are not millionaires
and who have to work to provide for
their families.
Young women want to dress in
such cases as finely as do their more
( fortunate sisters among the wealthy
ones are accustomed TO dress. Some
of them do-many of them do-when
their husbands are compelled to work
as laborers at moderate wages. Ii
has got so now that young men are
afraid to marry for fear that they
/ in affluenCe which they may expect
or wish to live.
There is no reason why young
/ woman should go away from home
/ three or four times week leave her
/ baby at home, or at her mothers or
with neighbors, just SO that she may
/ be enabled to attend ball game A
/ young wife who does this cannot eX-
/ pect that her husband will approve OF
IL when he finds il out If a young
\ man Is compelled to work hard for
I the means to support his wife and
] family, then that wife should stay
at home and care for her household
duties She should be there to pre-
/ pare his breakfasts and to have his
lunch bucket ready for him when he
has to leave in the morning. She
should be there with a warm dinner
4 ready for him when he arrives home
in the evening from his work. She
I should not be running about some
| where and neglecting her home. Her
/ place is there and she should be there
to assist in making that home hap
/ ply one.
4 There are a few women-there
are some women who are willing to
do this when they marry a young
man; but there are a great many who
are not willing to do so.
The court does not know what to
do in cases of this kind, The court
can't make you happy. If you quar-
rels that is the end of 1t. If you Sc
cure divorce, then that is the end
of it, 1t is a mistaken idea that YOU
have about divorces. If your hus
1 band hasn't any property, the court
/ cannot put any in his hands so that
/ ii can compel him to provide for you
and your baby.
The court believes that this cou-
pie should live together at home. The
/ court sees no necessity for divorce
| in this case. The court will decline
to order any alimony for this plain
/ tiff"
Judge George w. Allen, in the dis
| trict court at Denver, when the APP
| plication for temporary alimony in
the divorce case was brought by Ruby
/ Weaver against Harry Weaver came
up before him, delivered homily
from the bench that caused Mrs Wea
yer and her counsel, Everett Bell, to
gasp with establishment
Striking straight from the shout
der, Judge Allen fatty told Mrs. Wea-
yer and Attorney Bell that he did
not believe the charges of cruelty al
/ legged against Weaver: and. when At
1 torney Bell asserted that he had the
testimony of witnesses to prove that
| Weaver had beaten up his wife so
severely on the night of May 80 that
she had to be carried out to the house
of neighbor, Judge Allen replied in
the language quoted above.