Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
SCHOOL DAY
ROMANCE
WRECKED
Actress Warns Against Wedding
Young-Husband Allowed Ten
Cents Day Seeks Divorce.

announcer Cf1llQ marriage ndO lIS un
happy ending in the divorce court of
Judge Pendleton Monday in the
granting of final decree to Mrs.
Audrey Stephens, a pretty actress in
the Jewel Kelly Stock Company re-
Gently in Atlanta, and one of more
than. 100 persons seeking divorce in
the same court.
But If the verdict was attended by
any sadness in the heart of the child,
who was only 10 when she became a
bride she failed to show it.
why, this honestly is the happiest
moment of my life" she exclaimed
after leaving the courtroom. II
could scream, / am so happy. l just
believe l will take car out to the
river, where can scream to my
hearts content
I've been a married woman almost
ever since can remember. I think
must have married Just out o.
spite. I can't imagine any other rea-
son in looking back on it now
Leave School to Wed.
Luther, my ex-husband. you know
and / were attending night school to-
gether. l was just 10 and not out
of short dresses yet. One night as
we left he suggested that we get mar
a childish prank, | know now So
without letting my parents know any
thing about it, we got married.
1T was only a few weeks after our
wedding that he began to be mean &c
me. l tried to be good to him, 50
that we would get along together, but
he paid attentions to other girls, and
finally | was compelled to leave him.
Afr l went on the stage he never
did anything to support me. Instead
| was supporting him. | suppose he
thought there wasn't any use of his
working so long as / was making
money. The climax came one day
when | found another girl sitting or
his lap.
II left the house so as not to make
a scene, but I met him on the street
with her later. l couldn't restrain
myself any longer, and l told the CIR
! that she had better be at home thar
to be around town with other women.
husbands. Luther was furious anc
beat me terribly. A policeman ar
rested him and he was given 80 days
pi
away.
"Don't Wed Till You're 90"
mo, / wouldn't advise any girl tC
get emarried at the ridiculous age a
| which | eloped No girl knows hel
own mind and heart then"
But Mrs. Stephens, or Msis Audrey
| Thomas, as she now calls herself, re-
Stunning her maiden name, is not en-
tirely out Of sorts with young Dar
Cupid, even though he did play her
mean trick six years ago.
"A girl Is not old enough to MARI,
until she is 90" she remarked. A!
| il happens, Miss Thomas is just 20.
There were 102 undefended divorce
cases on the calendar when cour
| opened.
In that of C. II. Garrison agains
| Fannie S. Garrison, Garrison wa:
| bandpainted as the typical men
| pecked husband by his attorney, Leol
| Greer.
10 Cents Day His Pin Money.
Ten cents a day was the usua
amount of spending money his wifi
would give him, according to his pc
| tition. Sometimes, in a fit of gen
crosby, she would give him 10 cents
| That gave him a nickel on which t
| have a good time, as he spent II
cents for car fare.
This state of affairs was brough
about, II was said, by the wife's de
mand that every bit OF his week.,
salary be turned over to her.
why didn't you hold out some
thing for YOURSELF" inquired Judg'
Pendleton.
~ didn't dare" replied Garrison
amid the laughter of the court. "Sh'
had threatened to kill me once, and
| feared she might carry out he
| threat"
Lucille Watts said that her husband
Martin Watts, had followed he
around to her different places of EN-
ployment with a revolver since sh'
| had left him, and had threatened hel
life. She declared that within tire,
weeks after their marriage he begaf
| drinking. and had abused and threat
ened her until she was driver
through fear to leave him. She wa.
: Riven "A verdict