Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-30
Mems Chivaky Makes Divorce
Problem Hard for the Courts

Chivalry sparkles even in the di-
vorce courts of Ada county.
Because too many men are gentle
men, dozens of default cases are en-
tered on the divorce dockets of the
county every few months, and the men
refuse to testify against the women
who are seeking DEGREES. While the
wives GO on the stand and tell what
| incorrigihle raseals their husbands are.
and describe fully and without omis-
sion of single detail the awful things
that the men have done. the guilty hus-
bands stay at home. and refuse to open
their mouths or say a word that would
enlighten the judges as to how the
trouble started.
Nearly every default that is entered
In suit for divorce is necessary be-
cause the man has refused to appear
and utter a word against the woman he
has married Many Of the divorce suits
that are brought by women might be
defeated If the man would but indi
cate the real reason that brought about
the trouble in the first place
Judicial probes into causes for de
sertlon have brought out the fact that
the man did not find the affection and
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Tired, after q hard days work at the
office or in the shop. he has returned
home only to be met by d nagging wife
Perhaps he has stood for the condition
as long as it was humanity possible for
him to do 50, and when he has made
his way down to the club, TO the pool
room, to the saloon
Many of the stories of hahitual in
temperance and cruel treatment have
been traced through the records of the
divorce courts Of the United States to
this real reason. Many of the terrible
details and graphic pictures of suffer
ing related by the wife on the witness
stand have been laid by judges of di-
vorce courts TO the lack of a proper
condition of affairs at home.
But the man never tells these things
He sits back in his chair, and says,
| We'll, LET her get divorce if she
wants it." and the judge is required
to enter default because he has failed
| to appear at the appointed time.
| The wife, however seldom misses
chance to fight a divorce case. When
/ her name appears ON the records Of the
court as a defendant in an action of
| this kind, she is always there with her
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| ncsses. She starts in FOR a fight, and
| she usually makes the granting of such
decree just as hard legal PROPOSE
/ ton as she can.
There are few instances in the courts
| of this or other counties where the
1 woman has failed to seize her oppor-
| tunity for defense. or has not come
| out and told all of the things that she
could remember about the way that
/ the husband behaved toward her during
! their married life.
/ This condition of affairs puzzles the
! matrimonial doctors. The judges have
| a feeling that there is something that
| has been omitted. that all of the story
has not been told. They feel that there
are two sides to every case of this kinl,
and that. while the husband is usually
at fault, there is probably a reason for
/ it. If they could but find this reason,
| if they could but mine into the hid
| den secrets of the family relations and
i discover there the factor that was the
| cause of all of the trouble, divorce
| problems would not be 50 difficult, and
| district judges would not be SO per-
| picked whenever one is brought 20 their
| attention. Whenever a divorce case IS
| held up and further action upon 1t
| postponed, 1t is nearly always because