The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-08-02

Venerable Justice Suggests That Hus-
bands Should Give Their Wives Lar
ger Allowances and Less Time
for Talking.

With flowing beard white above q
pulpit draped with the Stars and
Stripes, Judge Turner Of the Milwaukee
Court Of Domestic Relations spoke Sun
day evening at the Park Avenue Meth
odist Church on "The Things that
Make or Break Home.' Venerable
in appearance and wise in the ways OF
the world, the justice made u deep i'm
preston upon his audience with his
pictures Of tragedy gathered from a
lifetime's experience with divorce ca
SEES of every conceivable cause and cir
cumstancc. Despite the prohibitive
temperature gratifying crowd was
present at the service and listened with
rapt attention to the words of wisdom
which fell from the lips of the patri-
archal counsellor and sage.
introduced by Rev q. w. Taylor,
Judge Turner wor his hearers before
he had spoken word. White-haired
and wrinkled but tall and straight as
ar arrow he faced his audience with a
twinkle in his eye and playful smile
about his lips. Combined with an
aGsterity always to be found in men
who have won their way to eminence
il the judicial world was a subtle some
thing which seemed to say that this
was a Judge who had seen the seamy
side of life without losing his sense Of
humor. This alone commended him i'm
mediately to his auditors and assured
him the attentive hearing which he re-
ceiveG throughout his discourse.
Marriage does not make home "
said the justice in beginning his ad-
dress, "but it may or may not go a
long way in that direction. He then
proceeded to explain that matrimony
was a partnership in which the wife
SHOULD be the senior partner in au-
thority if not in age. Let her be-
lieve she Is boss, he advised, "and
husbands will<fnd most of their domes-
tic difficulties permanently eliminated.
Give her a liberal allowance and let
her spend it as she wants to and the
chances are ten to one that she will
save more of it twice over than most
of you husbands will A dollar looks
bigger to q woman than to man and
consequently she uses it more wisely,
y she can only persuade you spend
thrift men to trust her with enough to
run the house and keep the family
In enumerating the things that break
home Judge Turner emphasized
especially "too much mother for the
men" and too little knowledge Of
cooking for the women = He insisted
that men who were contemplating ma
trimony should take course in domes-
tic science before ''taking the leap''
in order that after marriage they
would be able to sympathize with their
wives or possibly help them from time
TO time in a mastery of the culinary
art so essential to the happiness of
any home. He showed from statistics
that divorces were most common before
the age of thirty or after the age of
nifty and explained this strange phen-
omenon by asserting that children SO
frequently played an important part in
preventing domestic difficulties. Fur
Their than this the judge declared that
husbands and wives, after all, were on
ly human beings with human short.
comings and that each should be will.
ling to accord the other generous de-
gree of forgiveness for little faults and
foihles.
With apt Illustrations taken from
real life to emphasize the various theo-
ries set forth, the address of the Justice
was highly convincing and interesting.
For more than an hour he held his au-
dience spellbound with his unlimited
store of anecdotes both pathetic and
humorous. Appropriate music made
the meeting even more attractive and
added touch of novelty and variety
wholly in keeping with the Judge i
speech and with the general spirit of
the service.