The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-06-07
g1NF FREAK DIVORCE CASES
,norEsoUE REASONS FOR SEW
rpANCE OF MARITAL TIES.

Woman Freed Because Husband
VI procticed Jiu-Jitsu Upon Her.
rgfth Year of Married Life Is the
Danger Point
variance with the many pitiful
INC that are made in the divorce
nc Of the big cities are numerous
%sook" cases, wherein grotesque
targes are put forth as the cause
the severance of matrimonial
~. There is not court room into
10Th the freak divorces have not
.raIod their way. There is not a
's .5oo who has not at some time or
+hor become convulsed on the
sorcb at ludicrously unexpected sit
uo o4ions Nor is there a lawyer who
s aa toured in the defense of divorce
p Dosoe who has not been stalled"
S ~nro than once by some freakish an
sTar to his question, "Why?"
Practiced Jiu-Jitsu on Wife.
ru-iitsu is the latest freak plea to
no chronicled in the court records of
chicago. and is catalogued with the
SrneIty charges. A Japanese hus-
hand practiced jiu-jitsu on his pretty
American wife-and thereby hangs
the tale Miss Greta Ants, we'll
known Chicago girl, became the wife
Of Prof. Kazan Cho-Yo, a Japanese
resident of the Windy City. He had
been professor in a college at To-
kvo and was recognized as literary
man of no mean ability, and she had
hpen noted for her talent for music,
being a graduate of the Chicago Mu-
steal College. They had been mar
red but short time, according to
Mrs. Cho-Yo's story, when the Japa-
nese commenced to make her life
miserable by insisting that she learn
the Japanese method of offense and
defense He was determined to make
an acrobat out of her, AYERS Mrs.
Cho-Yo, with the result that several
of the yertebrae of her spine were
djslocated and a number of her ribs
injured.
Some Queer Causes for Divorce.
In recent divorce records canvass
ed it has been discovered that on an
average two women to every man
apply for divorce. Just why this is
the case no one has been able to an
Swer to the satisfaction of anyone,
though, perhaps, a good attempt was
made by the man who said:
The little things Of life mean so
much more to a woman than they do
to a man. She feeds her sensibilities
on triVialities, and is pleased or suf-
ferS according to the way in which
the small things Of life are handed
out to her"
But are the little things" which
50 often form the basis for divorce
suits really 'little?" If you were a
woman Mr.. Man, and your husband
insisted on sleeping in a box car at
night, and when you met him on the
street and begged him to come home
he said to you: Nix, Minnie; don't
talk to me! I've got money enough
for sandwiches and coffee, and sleep
ing in cars is better any old day than
living in the same house with you, +"
wouldn't you think it was time to get
a divorce?
Or if you were a woman and your
husband went away, and by and by
somebody wrote you he was dead
the somebody being said husband
himself-and you got lot of expen-
Slye mourning, only to have him
walk really, not spookily, in on you
some morning and have him an
nounce he had just been "fooling, f"
wouldn't you wish he was dead and
make up your mind to get rid of
him?
These are some of the recent pleas
mat have been advanced in the
courts by women, and probably what
Ine mere man who spoke of ''little
lnlngs" meant when he advanced his
ofacular and learned opinion.
But Judging from the court rec
ordS it is not the wives alone who
depend on 'trivialities" to free them
rom their mates. Men, too, are fin
NHy. Many cases in various sections
VI Vhe country seem to illustrate this
point.
Harry S. Gall, an old soldier, made
IIS appearance in a court room not
lOng ago and said he wanted a d.
lyoFCe from his wife, Martha, because
ne mad discovered she disliked him.
-, why does she dislike your" ask
ed the Judge.
, Because I went to Christian
IT,C ~ after doctor had told me
q, a die in week, and / got cured.
que not had thing to do with me
HOW a Wife Woke Up Hubby.
Another husband, whose name
uoeS not matter. came into court
WIN the sad story that his wife had
iPuIied him out of bed by his whis-
AeTS' and to be ranked in the same
uIaSS with this much abused person
wa. WAS man whose lawyer showed an
exhibit b." composed of a tuft of
aaF which the man averred with
ears IN his eyes had been extracted
noln his cranial roof by the wife of
MS bosom.
T., among some of the recently chron-
%leu freak" divorces is the suit
brought by Mrs. Lawrence Ferguson
against her husband, whom she