Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-24
TICKLED HER FEET
As SANITY TEST
Woman, Piqued at a Humiliation
in Hospital Sues for
Divorce

ST. LOUIS, July 23.-That Mrs. Rose
Fornoff does not love her husband she
admits. That this is a symptom of in
sanity she vigorously denies. 1t is one
of the points of contention to be
thrashed out in the divorce court,
where her suit is pending.
my husband told me in 1908," said
Mrs. Fornoff last night Just before
this series of trips to asylums for the
insane began, that he could not un-
derstand why l did not love him. He
said girls with some sense liked him
and that if 1 didn't 1 must be crazy.
No one but a crazy woman, he said,
would want to give up comfortable
home like ours"
The suit to divorce Louis J. For
noff, who lives at 6139 Berlin avenue,
and is a real estate cashier, followed
Mrs. Fornoff's fifth Imprisonment for
observation, she says, in which she un-
derwent the foot tickling test. This
was the last straw.
AS told by her, it happened thus:
II had an engagement to go out with
a girl friend the evening of June 2S,
and as 1 left the house l met my nus
band He pulled me back into the house
and l telephoned for the police. AS
soon as they got there my husband
told them l was somewhat demented
and that he had been compelled to put
me into asylums several times. So l
was sent to the city hospital by way
of the dispensary.
'At the hospital two young doctors
received me. They told me to sit on a
table. / did. They told me to take off
my shoes. I obeyed. Then each of
them took a toothpick from his pocket
and began gravely tickling the sole
of my foot.
OBJECTED TO TICKLING
after a time they told me to take
off my stockings. l objected but they
were insistent. Then they applied the
toothpicks again. l learned the next
day that this was to determine whether
there was anything wrong with my
brain. If there had been paralysis I
would not have been sensible to the
toothpicks
But l decided I wouldn't stand for
that sort of thing again and as soon
as l was released as of sound mind I
began preparing to sue for divorce.
1.-THE first time l was sent to an asy-
lum was in 1908. It was then that my
husband began to be jealous of me. He
sent me to the Missouri Baptist sani-
tarium for ten days and then at the
there three months, but had the lib
erty of an attendant. Later he sent
me to the Baptist sanitarium again,
then to st. Vincent's and then to the
city hospital.
The Fornoffs were married in 1900,
when she was II years old. They have
two children, and 9 years old.
Mrs. Fornoff says that once when
she was automobiling with friend of
her husband and herself, Fornoff had
the machine driven up to the Missouri
Baptist sanitarium, but that they re-
fused to receive her there.
MADE HUSBAND PAY FARE
How my husband found out who
the chauffeur was | do not know"
Mrs. Fornoff said "but as we returned
from a spin in Forest park we rushed
like mad along Lindell boulevard and
circled up to the sanitarium. There at
the door stood my husband and a group
of nurses and about 100 other persons.
Ny husband and another man caught
hold of me and tried to drag me out
of the taxicab, and my friend advised
me to hang on tight I guess they
would have got me, anyhow, if the su-
perintendent had not recognized me
and said that it was no use, as they
would not take me in.
"But you should have seen my nus
band when my friend told the chauf-
feur to collect the fare from Mr.. For
noff, as we had not ordered him to
drive to the sanitarium. And Mr.. For
noff had to pay it-$4. He stood glar-
ing at us as 1 waved gnodby in speed
ing away.
"Once when I was walking on La
clede avenue near Euclid with girl
friend and a young man we both knew
nv husband suddenly appeared and
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knocked his hat off. stamped on it and
hit the young man in the nose, so that
it bled. The poor boy didn't try to fight
back, but just picked up the wreck of
the hat and ran away S fast 'as he
could.
at really is remarkable how jealous
a man can get. Now, my husband fol-
lowed me once when I started to Ev-
ansville, ILL.,, on a visit. He had an
idea that was going to meet some one
at the station. There was just one
e-looking young man in the station.
NV husband saw him. That's the man
you are going to meet he vowed. And
had never even seen him before!
"Once my husband was with me
when a young man, evidently mistak-
ing me for some one he knew, lifted
his hat to me. 7 knew it was a mis-
take, because there was nothing dis
courteous in the mans manner, moth
ing flirtatious. you know. But my hus-
band was furious. He said I was try
ing to flirt right in his presence.
Fornoff told a reporter it was on the
advice of physicians that he had his
wife sent to sanitariums. He denied
that he had ever mistreated her in
any way.
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