The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-22
NOW SHE is GONE
Mrs. Jno. g. Cooper No. 8 Leaves
Husbands Home.
Final Separation Takes Place
This Morning.
$500 BERRY BOWL.
This Is What Caused the Rup-
ture Today.
Exchange of Amenities Featurs
the Parting.
BOWL.

Cora T. Cooper. wife No. 3, has left
the John G. Cooper cooling roost at
o24 jackson street and gone to live
With a sister on the East side. Neither
the aged Don Juan nor his recently
acquired wife shed tears at the final
departure. Baby Cooper went with its
mamma Cooper himself may leave
this afternoon. He expects to go to
Texas to ''recuperate."
Not since the domestic uprising in
December has the Cooper dove nest
been the same quiet, peaceabIe resort
as in the days of old. Cooper himself
often seemed bit peeved. Cora adj
mitted that at times she was nervous
and irritable. Even the carefully
prepared decision in the recent suit
Tor divorce and alimony seemed not
to quiet the turbulent spirits of the
husband and mail order Wife
Each party to the domestic infe-
licities has q different story. Baby
Cooper herself is not yet old enough
to testify and can not give an unbiased
account of Cooper's alleged parsimony
and Cora's uneven disposition.
Cora had come to the Cooper home
ION trial. as a result of the diligence
and search of Colonel Booge of the
Home Comfort-and the Home Com
fort is Topeka's only really truly unin-
corpOrated matrimonial bureau. But
after she came Mrs Cooper said she
divorce. CoOper's efforts to secure a
sure enough affinity had become ap-
palling by his inevitable failure. So
Judge Whitcomb decided to end the
heart aches by denying a decree. But
this decision didn't humor Cora in the
least.
For months Cooper and his wife
have lived under the same roof. In
the rooms on the second floor of the
Jackson street home Cora and the
baby made their home. On of the first
floor John G. reigned supreme. But
this arrangement did not promote
harmony. Cora said her husband
would meet her in the hall and nag
and jaw until her head ached. John
said his wife wanted all the luxuries
of a department store and Jared his
bank account every time they met.
It was yesterday when a little SIS
berry bowl caused the final trouble. ac-
cording to Cooper.
She Kissed Him Goodbye.
Cora wanted this thing and she
wanted that" declared Cooper as he
wiped the perspiration from his bald
dome of thought, which Cora once
affectionately called her skating rink,
land of course I kept right on doing
the best 1 could Well, this time she
wanted some new tangled berry bowl.
Thought I wouldn't buy it for herr but
1 did 1t cost IS, too.
Then last night what did I do but
~
her things and was just leaving the
house with the baby Bound to 60 she
said, and I asked her if she wouldn't
kiss me gOodby. Said sure she would
and gave me a smack that was just
like the old days when she first came.
Then I rustled around to get some
money for her and the baby. I intend
to see that baby gets along all right
you bet I do"
But this morning Mrs. Cooper was
lii Tote
came with her. Cora had forgotten her
hat, she said. 1t was the Same Zig,
broad trimmed, black felt hat which
the woman wore the first day she ret
John Cooper. While she was fumbliEg
with the head gear Cora reminded John
of this fact. too. But it didn't feaZe
Cooper. Not the least. He admitted
she was right, but allowed that by
economy and strict attention to bust
ness the millinery creation was still in
very good trim. Then in the excite
ment Of anguarded moment Cora told
her side of the trouble.
TITS been a regular dogs life around
here" said the % year old bride OF
81 year old John G., and l just had
to get out. He nagged and whined
and whimpered until there wasn't any
thing else to do. Last week he told
me to pack my blankety blank trunk
and get gone blankety quick. Now he
sits around and poses like a kind, gen.
erouS hearted old ph1IanInrOplSI
Cooper heard a bit of this and inter-
posed a demurrer.
VIII Try Another Climate.
"Well, you know it's so-ever word VI
it," snapped the little discovery of he
Booge Home Comford, you know it is. -
and Cora offered to prove every asser-
ton by Mrs. Mott who mildly shook
her head. ''Just go look in my trunk.
There isn't a rag in it but calico that
I didn't bring when 1 came. Great old
hero you are.
Then Mrs. Cooper remarked scme-
thing about the delinquent husband
making better provision for his other
aflnities. But Cooper only laughed.
When asked If she had kissed John
goodby, Cora's temper again hit q
bump.
Indeed didn't. no stree, not on your
1fe,'' she protested, 'it will be a colo
frosty morning when I kiss him lgain.
AS Cooper started to leave the house
he asked No. 3 if she didn't desire &C
walk to the corner with him. Cora did
not desire. She made her position
clear. too. A half hour later she left
the house-never to return, she said
There isn't enough room here fol
both of US" said the banished one, and
have lost 81 pounds since the baby
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