The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-24

wearied any one.
 Frederick K. Burnham, whose mo
 tor boat Dixie IT won the 1909 Brit
 ish international trophy, is being suet
 for divorce by his wife, Lillian Bald
 win Burnham, niece of Frederick K Durham, ST., who was for many year!
 president of the Mutual Reserve Fund
 Life Insurance Co., and is graduatt
 of Yale University. The fact that di
 vorce proceedings were contemplated
 came as a great shock to the friends
 of the couple, as it was generally be- lfeved that everything was going along harmoniously between them. Young
 Burnham's devotion to motor boating
 is believed to have led to the split
 calling him away from home for long l periods at time Since the loss of his handsome steam yacht, which
 was destroyed by fire while moored to its dock in the Thousand Islands, last winter, he has gone in more vigorous | ly for motoring than ever before and this is believed to have brought ! things to crisis at home.
 As a means of checking the growing tendency of marriage among immature 1 young men and women. and it's atten- dant evils, Magistrate Robert C. Cor nell of the Domestic Relations Court, 1 came out this week With a plan de- | l except under the most stringent con- l ditionS.
 Ut is a recognized fact, with those | who are familiar with the conditions, | that al least seventy-five per cent, if not more, of the hasty marriages | made between young people. result un- | happily; that nearly fifty per cent, end in the divorce courts, and more would if such a course could be af- | forded'
 l Tt is getting so nowadays" said the | judge, that a boy of nineteen may l thoritieS are none the wiser until about | a year afterward when the youthful 1 couple, tired of playing keep house" !" | come to this court for aid.
 This condition of affairs is not only | a reflection on the parents and their laxity in caring for their children, but | it is also a disgrace to the city gov- ernment, and I believe that unless it | is stopped the city will be so overrun | with families poor and discontented | that it will be the laughing stock of | the country.
 Tt would be an excellent thing if a marriage law was passed making it l necessary for the contemplated mar riage to be published month in ad- vance of the time of the wedding.
 Such a law would guard the chil- dren in two ways. It would make possible the interference of the pa rent or guardian if the marriage was ill-advised, and it would also give the foolish children a month in which to think over the situation. Many of | these marriages would not take place if the young people were compelled to wait a month.
 There is practically no love in nasty marriage of this kind. If you sat in this court for a few days you would soon discover this to be a fact. There never had been love, just fleet ing affection, and that very thin. Love is an ill-used word, and in almost nine cases out of ten that are brought be- fore me of this kind it has never been known
 Between the idle bug" and "the busy buzz, two forms of bacteria not generally classified, the average Amer ican marriage, according to pr. John D. Quackenbos, professor Emeritus of the chair of English literature at Co., lumbia University, is menaced with disaster almost from the beginning.
 There are diseases of idleness and diseases of industry" Dr. Quacken- bos says. Premature fatty degenera- tion of the heart and obesity are among the most prevalent diseases of idleness; brain flag, indigestion and dyspepsia are the diseases of indus try.
 ''There, is busy bug but at the same time there is an idle bug that inoculates the women of this country, especially the wealthy ones.
 ''I know a great many young ma irons who have beautiful country homes, servants, wealth and every thing heart can wish for, and yet they sit all day complaining that they have nothing to live for"
 "I met a woman not long since, who asked woman friend if she would accompany her on a trip to Egypt. Her friend, recognizing the infinite distractions and attractions of Cairo, said Why yes and recounted the thousand and one interests in the country.
 "Oh, replied the woman who had proposed the trip, T don't want to go there for that. I want to visit Cairo because I know such a lovely hotel there where in the corner of wide awninged veranda there is the most beautiful bridge table in the world
 Fancy going to Egypt for a bridge table," Dr. Quackenbos, acclaimed, scornfully, "and the only excuse the woman could give for her strange else in life that interested her.
 likeness in her case, as in many others. is a disease.
 'The men are becoming more and more busy as the women grow more and more idle. Ten per cent. of the women of the city find plenty to do; plenty to interest them. The others are the hopeless prey of the idle bug"
 Convinced that it will be good thing for her complexion, and add to her mental exposure Mary Garden the grand opera prima donna, is go- ing on the water wagon. The night before her departure for Europe the other day she was the guest of honor at a dinner where champagne flowed like water from a geyser. Who gave the dinner, she would not say but there is a strong suspicion that her host was a New York millionaire who has taken a fancy to her titan hair and lyric notes. The singer remem- bered it next day by the sudden am- plitude of her head and the pains in it. to say nothing of the dull brown taste that attests to might of it." It was practically an all night affair and one to be long remembered
 ''It was a great dinner she ex- plained to the newspaper men on the ship as she was about to leave"-1 didn't hear the alarm clock this morning and really I don't recall the hour I got home. It was a miracle I got up in time to catch the ship" And it was, for she did not reach it until few minutes before the time fixed for it's departure. AS she danc- ed about the deck, displaying a pair of bright yellow socks up to her knees