The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-15
By FRANCIS PHILLIPS.
Copyright, 1910, BY the National News Service.

sire to get the story Of bis polar ex,
rloration At first hand.
Since slavery ended Ehera childs
Door, says the most important socia!
evil Of the United States IL the az
cursed blight Of divorce.
Within the past twenty Years
s54, 900 divorces have Been granted II
the United states--rwo-t thirds Of them
to wons1," she says. This means
raat ID face Of the anatheraas OF the
Churches, il the face CT tradition and
rrejuake, expecting II the great ma
jority OF cases, the responsibility Of
earning TIER own living, more than
100000 women have repudiated the
Eurdsn5 OF uncongenial marriage
This Is the 1aost important social
Tact since tie slavery question was
settled. The prevalence Of divorce
shows that women are no longer salts
fed with the existing conditions q
marriage, and tho number OF divorces,
great as It is, by no means indicates
the number Of women who are unhap-
PLY married. Many women VIII e..
dure t1tArp!ness TO the end.
ANY way we look at it, the eco1o-
mic dependence Of women and chill
r1its crime. VINO suffers most when
be goes to jail? man Is killed or
injured il industry. His family IN
plunged Ito instant want a panic
throws hundreds Of thousands Of wo-
ahi1A-ay ae,
haven't done anything to deserve pau
perism. The women have been doing
the work nature gave them to do.
greatest wealth a community can pos
owe them in return for the service?
Mrs. Theresa Dean, who under the
nom de plume Of THE Widow" has
been lampooning society for years in
one Of the fashionable journals OF the
city, confessed that Gotham's smart
set is as vulnerable to newspaper
boosting As it ever was IN the days Of
Colonel Marn's "F,ads and Fancies"
crusade, out Of which that shrewed
student Of the foihes and vagaries Of
the 400" ssatd to have cleaned up
quarter Of g million dollars. ! year
or more ago, Mrs. Dean, OWNING that
the field OF society gossip was stuff
GENTLY fruitful Tor two journals, under
took to publish one Of her OWL The
enterprise has not been as profitable
as shA hoped Recently judgement
was taken against her for $3%5 for an
unpaid board bill due the Waldorf-As.
toria. Under examination the other
day in supplementary proceedings she
admitted that some Of the pictures
Of popular women published in her
magazine were paid for and that oo-
casionally the society n2atrons e.
plotted ordered extra pastelIes CT thei:
pictures Tor which they paid. She
could not remember the names Of the
women who had SO paid OF the
a1dcunta To afford her an oppor.
tunity to refresh her mind the case
was adjourned SO that she might pro-
duce tho books. S1aee there is moth
Ing more Notifying to the sotia.
Climber than the thought that she had
to pay to have hsr photograph pub
lished the suggestion that the full LIST
Of names may be made public has
eoused much uneas!ness among 4 Ger
tain class who have been placed il
the limelight Of late by The Widow p"
With spirit Of resignation that caused
a smoker among those present, Mrs
Dean said her only assets was al IN
paid claim for back alnony against
her husband amounting to $4,000
| Some Of the heretofore unpublished
history Of. the divorce scandal ii
which Mrs Charles W. Morse. we
OF the banker now IN tie Atlanta iail,
ker former husband, Dodge, and Abe
Hummel. the lawyer who vas dis
barred for the part he played in ma
nipula1ng it, will be aired in the Sl-
prene Court next week in the suit
brought by Edward Bracken. one Of
the detectives employed n the case.
Bracken, one Of the detectives en-
Bracken Is suing former Judge
Coyne, one o. the lawyers who
elaborated n strengthening out
the Morse tansle. Judge Coyue Is
the man who is charged with handin :
the $4,000 yellow dog fund for tbs
Jockey Club IN its efforts to kill Gov
ernor Hughes a1tf-rac!ng bills. Efforts
to locate the former jur!st so that he
might be examined concerrlng his
part il the distribution OF this fund
by the Legislative Committee that has
been Investigating legislative graft
have been unvailing to-date. There IS
hope that the Bracken suit may bring
him into the jurisdiction Of the cou..
and thus make him auenGable to ser
vice by the committee.
Apropos Of the forthcoming fns-trll.
ton Of the Postal Savings Banks
John II. Thirty Of this city, IS trying
to interest the Department OF Educa.
. Iicn of this sitv in III irrrnd11ctsnr