The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-30
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Dollar divorces, Reno papers.
please copy. Cut-rate separations.
marked down severances of matri-
mony, bargain sales of single bliss
what a wonderful lot Of inducements
might be Offered to mismated tourists
if Nevada could appropriate some of
the African statutes. For instance,
the women OF the IngalWa tribe who
ara tired Of their husbands have the
Reno women backed off the map.
They do not have TO worry for six
months. a year or two Years. held in
an onerous martial leash until a judge
stead. they simply nae and nag their
husbands until they induce the rate
gentlemen to give them a good beat
ing. once a drop OF blood flows, it is
all off. Back to mother goes the wife,
taking With her a GOOD share of the
marriage offerings. and becomes a di-
Vorcea without any more ado.
Nor are these African women the
on)T ones Who don't ave to HE them
selves to Reno when they merely
want to get rid of their husbands. Yet
everywhere n rule holds pretty good
in the divorce records-it's the young
woman who are willing to take an
other chance The middle aged ones
are usually satisfied with the meal
tickets they have. and glad enough
when they can hold on to them. Par
ticularly is this so in Tunis. where n
man with s1.20 can get his freedom
any time he wants it.
The Arabs and the Moors probably
hold the divorce record. In Sudan
there are Arab men who AVE been
married forty or fifty times within ten
years. The female of the species can
NOT boa of such record. The best
they are usually able to do is twenty
matches in a decade. This is because
that a Divorce shall wait three whole
months before becoming a blushing
bride again, While her former husband
can remarry the DAY he is freed if he
so desires. 1t would indeed be a great
scandal for his discarded wife to star
tie Sudanese society by being so pre-.
vious. But after her period of grass
"idoWhood has expired, she can go
and do it again without fear of crit
icism.
In the Barbary states a wife can get
a divorce if she finds that hubby had
another sweetheart before he wooed
her. That is her only salvation if she
tires of her better half unless she can
prove that he has beaten her without
sufficient provocation. or that he has
not given her proper food. clothing or
shelter. And this is pretty hard for
her to do, for the judge might agree
with the husband that she deserved
the beating and that the food and
clothing that he gave her were COCO
enough for her.
On the other hand. it is the easiest
thing in the world for an Arab of the
same region to cast aside his wife in
favor of another. And then the first
one cannot remarry, unless she re-
turns to him the money that he paid
when he bought her. If she loses her
good looks or is untidy in her dress
Or if he Grows tired of her for some
reason or other, all he has to do is to
say, Woman get thee hence; AXE thy
goods and CO. and she must go. Di.
vorce courts or fees do not have to
be commended with.
In and about Tunis it is a differen,
story. For there one will find a di.
vorce court, where the men car se,
rid of their wives for the grand tota]
sum of $1.20. And the women seldom
have any say in the matter. it beine