The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-21
DIVORCE C0L0MY0E.
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oordian Knot of Matrimony Is Not
IA Tight in Refnge of Blighted
Romances II You Can Spend
Six Months in Nevada.
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Actresses and Bread Farmers Are
Among .Throng, But Society
Snubs Them All.
BY HARRY c. FARMER.

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South Dakota amended Its residence
\ requirement from SIX months 10 one
year. Nevada sent Reno and GoldheId
to the post in the Great Divorce Stakes
us a coupled entry.
Nevada started as n territory with
the loosest divorce laws ever written,
{. aud she didn't change them when she
!. became a state. Hence Reno is 10 the
unhappy mated what Mecca IA 10 the
\ Mohemmedan. Matrimonys gordian
knot is no mystery here. And what Is
/. said for Reno goes for Goldheld.
Within the past six months, SO Oh.
yorces have been granted by Judges
w. II. A. Pike and John S. Orr. Fifty
|. four cases are now on file. The d.
yorce colony numbers about $50, with
N additions coming at the rate OF SIX a
week.
Within the last six months. women
B whose names are we'll known in vari-
\ Gus ways have been divorced from ''un-
desirable" husbands The. most prom
inent. are Mrs. Frederick Lewis Col
well, Mrs. Keith Donaldson. Mrs. Har.
Try Spies Kip, Mrs. VIM. Lee Stoddart,
\ Mrs. Elihu ID. Frost, Mrs. Daniel Froh-
man twho was Margaret Illington),
\ Mrs. Lucien c. Shellabarger. Mrs. Ray
mond c. France. Mrs. Claude F. Day
: and Mrs. Geo. Leeds Zell. The latest
prominent arrival is Virginia Harmed
4 S0thern.
Lawyers at home advise their clients
a 10 try Reno when quick action is
wanted. They arm them with an in
troduction to local correspondent
and are content that the mills OF the
rods and Nevada Jurisprudence viii do
the rest.
=. Divorces Are Quick.
Reno is cosmopolitan. The petted
daughter OF the 400 and the darling
I OF the theater-going public rub Paris
) 1an-gowned elbows with. the blanket
Graped squaw.
Divorces are as thick as show girls
along the Great White Way. You see
them grand danes, actresses. newly
WEEDS. fooiish-weds, sufferers from the
s1inity thing, artists, professional and
business men. The men aren't so no
: ticeable, they lose their identity SO
easily.
IT'S easy for those who chafe IN
toubIe harness to trot single. That
passage, Whom God hath -joined--to-
xether let no man put asundery' ID as
& meaningless in Reno as Sanskrit TO q
y Digger Indian.
The colonists, as the snpplicants are
known, live apart from the Remedies
They have as much chance 10 break
through society's barrier as high
grader. has of escaping II caught WITH
the goods. There Is reason.
A little more than year ago MAJ
garet Illington-Frohman came here
with her mother, to secure the resi-
cence necessary 20 apply for divorce.
She declared she was sicR ofthe stage,
and wanted TO wed to darn her hus.
bands stockings. Society took up
Mrs. Frohman, ana no sooner had her
: fivorce been obtained than she mar
RED. here In Reno, f. ]. Bowes, OF Ia
coma. Society was shocked, and now
divorce can't break in with stick
OF dynamite.
There's a Reason.
why is Reno a haven for heavy
hearts, Read tine answer in the
Statutes --
800. Sec -22--Divorce from the bonds
+ OF matrimony may be obtained by COM
piaint, under oath, to the district court
Il OF the county In which the cause shall
have accrued. or in which the defendant
y shall reside. or be found, or in which
the plaintiff shall. reside. II the latter
be either the county In which the part
last eobabitated or In which me the plant mt
fore 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 ono
year. Extreme cruelty. Neglect OF hus
band for one year 10 provide common
necessities, when rot the result OF
poverty.
II Is not the grounds. but the ease
with which the courts find jurisdiction,
that makes Nevada n haven for heavy
hearts. IL two want divorce, they leave
train In the state and one commits
an act OF cruelty. Neither need be q
resident. Or. the defendant may DC
found" passing through the state and
served with, papers. Or either may
reside in the state six months.
g or the colonists so per cent live in
the FIVE hotels Of which Reno boasts,
another 30 per cent are cottagers. AMI
40 per cent find employment. The lat.
ter are mattresses, manicurists, hair
dressers, saleswomen, stenographers,
telephone operators. or maids. Their
I thraldom need only last but-ls2 days
Prospectors. miners, gamblers, east
erners. In.lians, Chinese. Japs, doctors
lawyers, real estate men. merchants
actors. men from every walk ia lfo
aock to this American Eldorado, which
restles brilliant white In its setting Of
emerald on the eastern slope OF the