The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-02
lion Russians living in the congested

lion Russians living in the congestet 1 tenements east of the Bowery. I the necklace was brought here, it i,
 certain that by this time it has beer
 dismembered and it's stones disposed
 of separately, rendering it difficult il
 not impossible to trace them. Nc
 progress has been made in the searct
 to date and the police are doubtful
 if any will be made.
 According to the latest dictum of the
 lower courts. husbands who abuse
 their wives may be spanked ad libitun
 bye their grown up sons, without in
 curing judicial censure.
 'The next time your father gets abusive to your mother, declared Jus of their mother, the other day in his court, don't beat him up so thai he will have to go to the hospital
 but just give him a sound spanking
 The young men said they would. The father who had them arrested for do- ing just what the court said they had a right to do. was non-plussed by the findings of the court. His face was covered with bruises and he looked as if a steam roller had passed over him. While in an irr1tated frame of mind he had started in to give his wife tongue flashing when the sons told him to stop. Proclaiming him. self master in his own house he or- dered them out and renewed his yer bal attack on their mother. The sons undertook to suppress him and in the process, mussed him up so that his best friend wouldn't recognize him. The Domestic Relations Court is con- gested daily with squabbles over triv- ial things between couples, which the magistrates have trouble in adjust ing. If put into widespread practice, have a more wholesome effect than tonnes of sentimental moralizing and advice handed out from the bench.
 Commenting on the statistics of happy married couples in the United States, compiled recently by a Phil- adelphia society woman. Justice Char les L. Guy of the Supreme Court who has presided over several thousand he has been on the bench this week declared that the startling number of divorces among American men and women was due in large measure to the incompatibility of "newly-weds." ," After couple had lived together for ten years he thought the prospect of divorce was comparatively small.
 
 marriage insurance,'' the Justice ob- served, with a smile, 'it is impossible to predict the period of risk with statistical accuracy. You know in Italy parents take out insurance for their daughters on the day of their birth that they will marry.
 From the hit-,or- miss state into which the prevalence of divorce has brought married people in our coun- try I sometimes wonder why there is no such thing as marriage insurance, to be taken out on the wedding day, to indemnify the contracting parties for not staying married! Then we would have a fine row of statistics on the average age of divorce
 Seriously, though, in my experi- ence I have found that the majority of divorces occur during the first five years of welded life. If two people live together for ten years the chan ces are that they have decided that their union is happy"
 ''But why do the divorces come so early?"
 "Because at first the newly welded couples care too much and afterward not enough Justice Guy responded wisely. Between the two stools of adoration and indifference they fall.
 Perhaps the husband is inclined to become boss instead of lover. Per- haps the wife would like to continue a worshipped queen instead of be- coming a real 'helpmate.' In either case outraged vanity is at the bot tom of the trouble.
 'The American motherin-1aw has been very much maligned," Justice Guy added. "In the case of a mari tai dispute the more offending party likes to shelter himself-or herself behind the convenient fiction of the in Ia Iu RJJf ho L. ly found that person to be on the side of right and Justice, even if she had to take a stand against her own flesh and blood The mother-in-law is a sensible American woman, you must 
 On her way back to London from Lady Moons ranch in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies, near Fort Col lins, where she learned to ride astride and hunt like a native. Lady Con- stance Duggan, of Duggan Manor Ayrshire, Scotland. made some caus- tic observations of the present day foibles of some of her sex. She had spent the winter with friends in Cal ifornia and left her brother Lord Duggan to go to British Columbia on some mining business in which he is The growing predilec- ton of we'll bred women for cigarette smoking she said was due to the same spirit of unrest that cause certain members of her sex to interest them selves in the suffragette movement.
 Cigarette smoking, like bridge, is fast becoming a vice in London, and one sees young women of good social position smoking publicly at the Ritz, the Carlton, Claridge's and other ho- tels Many American women who would not dare be seen smoking at home smoke in European hotels and But there are still in England a very large percentage of society women who frown upon this custom and who will not tolerate it in their houses.
 'I lunched in d New York hotel a day or to AO with friends and l