Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-04
WANTSATT0RNEY
OUT OF DIVORCES
Chicago Jurist Favors Law
Forcing Quarrehng Couples
to See Judges First.

q plan for the perpetuation OF his d.
vorce prevention bureau as court of
Cancellation.
1--WE should have a law making 1t
compulsory for husbands and wives
to submit their difficulties to a Judge
4 before either could file a bill for di-
vorce," said Judge Torrison yester-
! day. Lawyers should be eliminated
as far as possible in this court. d.
vorces in Chicago would decrease 20
per cent
Judge Torrison's recommendations
came after a busy SESSION in the court
of domestic relations spent in conciii'
ating warning couples.
| Religious intemperance on the part
of a young husband resulted in a
seemingly hopeless case before Judge
| Torrison the other day. The "fn-laws'
on both sides were present with bit
| ter accusations.
Hes a religious fanatic" angrily
| cried the pretty young wife, who has
| brought charges of contributing to the
| dependency of their two-year-old
| daughter against the erring husband.
! HE does mission work in the levee
I district and thinks l ought TO do 1t,
| too. Every time 1 go to a moving
| picture show he accuses me of wick
/ ed frivolity. If l chew gum it's the
same thing. l can't buy an ice cream
soda on Sunday without being told
that am headed for perdition."
MY daughter wore a low-neck dress
I It'd h. ans
/ father 1T wasn't very low. Just the
| collar was cut out. but he tore the
dress from her and called her bad
woman"
at was a disgraceful dress" shout
| ed the husband. u want my wife to
/ be saved"
/ Judge Torrison smiled benignantly,
You both want to do right. My as
sistants tell me you are both nice
/ young people. Be tolerant in small
matters" he said to the husband.
Il don't want a divorce. and III
wear collars on my dress if he won't
/ call me Names" sobbed the wife.
"Well?" There was a question in
his eyes which she met by: "All right
Let's try again."
men inc lH-ldWS we're
and promised to keep hands off. NO
| divorce there" said Judge Torrison.
Prosperity upset the mental equi-
| libriuri of another youthful husband.
He had been a city employee on a sal
airy. Then he started a private enter
/ prise, which let him escape with three
/ hours work a day.
He started a divorce against me,
/ judge, because l wouldn't put up with
his drinking" said the wife.
she entertains all her relatives
/ dozens of them-at my house." shout
| ed the husband.
How about your six sisters and
I four brothers? / entertain them and
vorce."
Wen try again, but no relatives
GO"
Don't fly off the handle so or you
may have to try the House OF Cor
rection," said the judge. This Gained
the belligerent husband so effectively
that he agreed to pay SIS week to
the wife II she would pay rent aand
run the house on it. They are to re-
port progress on September Is.
A third couple reached the court
because a spiritualist told the hus-
bands sister that his stepson was CO.
ing to cut his throat
'Nonsensical," said Judge Torrison.
7 Childish. Suppose l dismiss the case
and you both go home and be SEN
sible." And the couple sheepishly
walked from the court room side by
side.
While this case was Oh Mrs. Jane
Barnard, juvenile officer, was DEM
onstrating how Judge Torrison's as
sistants work.
a telephone girl stood before her
young husband and shrieked hyster-
lcally: Il hate him. / hate him. He
can never come into the house again
he drinks and is cruel to me-" A
catholic priest said: He's stopped
now"
The girl admitted that her husband
had never been cruel~to their two
children, and finally said that she
would go TO her mothers until next
thursday, when the husband has
pay day. This, after she had declared
he could sleep in the alley If he
I wanted TO sleep"
The girl is hysterical-brought on
by his drinking She Is broken
hearted. They should live apart for
six months and then both will regain
th"r valance" said Mrs. Barnard. The
husband agreed to pay half his wages
for his wife's suppost
At each hearing" said Judge Tor
rison' I'VE try to wash out a little
more bitterness. A disinterested con-
ciliator would dissipate most marital
troubles"
Notes OF an Author
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