The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-05
HOME DISRUPTED BY
TOO MUCH RELIGION
Mrs. Rene Dumarcst Says Hus-
band Slapped Her for
Becoming Seasick.
SHE DRESSES LIKE Nun

A separation suit In which the plain
IN. Rose @. Dumsrest. charged her
husband. Rene Dumarest, with several
aovel forms Of cruelty was tried yes
terdsy before Supreme Court Justice
Manning in Brooklyn. At tho conclusion
u the case Justice Manning said he
agreed with the husband that too much
religion was at the bottom of the trou-
bic He urged the Dumarests to patch
II up between them. hut finally reserved
decision after Mrs. Dumarest had in
sisted that she could never live with
her husband again.
The Dumarests, despite the suit. are
still living under the same roof at AZ
East Nineteenth street He IL a French
man and she Is a native OF Ecuador.
They were married In the latter country
on March 10, 1900. and have Ave
children. ranging from to II years.
In March. 1910. they came to this
country and Mr. Dumarest engaged
in the importing business at 80 Pearl
street. Manhattan. Mrs. Dumarest al
leges that his income from this business
Is now $4,000 year and that his
assets are s350.0OO. to which statement
he enters no denial.
1t was on the trip to New York from
Ecuador that the first cruelty occurred,
~ Mrs. Dumarest alleges. This cor-
sisted in making the pleintif eat soup
when she wasn't hungry and then slap
ping her when she became seaslck ON
one occasion H. showed her down stairs,
breaking her eyeglasses, so she SAYS,
and In 1914 announced that she would
have to buy her own gasolen,. This
Mrs. Dumarest declined to do, notwith-
standing the fact that she draws $1,000
a month from an estate inherited from
her father.
Mrs. Dumarest, wearing black suit
and bonnet that were nunlike in their
severity. testified that Dumarest had
been cruel, too, In attempting to curtail
her religious devotions. He had OBJ
Jected to the number of her visits TO
Father Costello of ST. Mary's Church OF
the Holy Innocents
Durarest testified that the whole
trouble was due TO an excess of religion
On his wife's part He said she had
spent most ot her time At church. with
the result that housekeeping suffered
He objected, too. he said, TO her taking
automobile rides with q priest and
members Of his family, and had told
her that either she or the priest would
nave TO buy the gasolene IL his auto
were TO be used in that way pumarest
said his wife even insisted on dressing
the part against his wishes although he
had given her from $4,000 to $4,000
year.
Justice Manning said the testimony
showed that the case was not one for
separation; that the principals had
every reasonable incentive to live to-
rether-a fine house. plenty OF money
and five children. separation was
against the tenets Of their religion and
against common senss. Marriage" he
said. rs not one long, sweet dream for
anybody"
He said that with all due respect to
priests. they should mind their own
business, and advised both sides to
settle their differences IN the home--''not
10 be continually running to priests
with their troubles
At this point Mrs. Dumarest said the
court was asking too much Of her that
II would he absolutely impossible for
her to return 10 her husband Justice
Manning then took the papers. saying
that Il they would not live together he
supposed ne would have 10 grant a
separation.
When the suit was started Mrs Du-
marest asked alimony Of $1,000 a
month. Her husband opposed this on
the ground that she was still living I'm
his house and that she had an inde-
pendent income OF 81. 900 a month She
said she needed the extra 81 900 for the
children. She was awarded $50