Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-25
IN, VIE SAYS,
HAVE TOLTVE HERE
New Jersey Woman Seeks Di-
vorce With That as Basis
Of Suit
IN LOVE WITH NEW YORK
Makes 100000 Philadelphians Co.
defendants, With Gay Gotham
v Correspondent

IN the. years that have disappeared
INTO the great void of the past there
have doubtless been uncounted millions
Of human beings who have snesrcd.
rallied, laughed. groaned. cussed. gone
raving mad or have become permanently
etupefled at the alleged tedium of l'fe
IN Philadelphia. But OF all those un-
numbered millions 3niy one person ever
took this alleged dreariness OF existence
In Philadelphia so keenly 20 heart Rs
to make II the basis Of suit for divorce.
This person is Mrs. Lydia AIeyeg' OF
Hackspsaok y. J. She has sued her
husband. JAY Meyer, for divorce. pre-
ssnting her petition IN the Chanccry
Court OF New Jersey. She charges linn
with cruelty to her And heavy
part Of this cruelty" she asserts. con-
sists Ia his having brought her 10 PriIa-
dsiphia shortly after their marriage "a
city which she defines. with wall
Of almost unutterable anguish, ss being
tedious boring and impossible
100000 DEFENDANTS
Lydia has indicted more than a single
individual In making this charge against
her husband. She has. at one stroke,
made defendants OF 1900 people.
fngenuously, apparently unwittingly,
she has betrayed to the defense the name
OF a correspondent: she asserts that
throughout her enforced residence she
dreamed. night and day, Of IA certain
party. whom she describes as being 80
diherent" namely, the city of New
York
IL jay Meyer does not forthwith sue
the city of New York. either as core
spondent or for alternating his wifes af-
1ections. some people will miss their
guess. But he may feel discoursg ged.
what can one lone huband do against
an entire city?
There are men who affirm that they
can be pushed just 20 far by any man
that wears hair. These men confess
publicly, that they are getting plenty
sick and tired of this gay Lothario. New
York. What some women can zee IN
him, they are dsrned II they know
Where does New York get that stuff
swaEgerng around IN dude clothes, Will
brilliantine oil his hair and getting fresh
with married women? Where does h,
get that stun. huh:
JUST LIKE A WOMAN"
Lydia alleges In her suit that her hus
band represented to her that he "wa'
possessed of large financial means ant
would maintain me in tue creates
luxury" and that. instead of maliinI
good as a Epender. he brought her q
an INADEQUATE ana unsuitable apart
rnent OF three rooms in lsdelphia
Old city directories do not give "a clu'
as to where these three rooms were
Perhaps this Is just as we'll
Jay comes back at her by asserting
that he had already bought a house ol
Old York road. giving the title deed e
her. but that she would have none o
the house and instead picked out tn
three-room apartment herself Ain
that. he intimates. just like womau?y
Other charges. eounter-charges and de
malls enter into the suit. but they fad
into insiGnificance when compared wit
this general plea that 1t is cruelty" o
degree sufficient to warrant a divorce
to obiige wife to live in philadelphia
The Chancellor Of New Jersey has a
opportunity before him that Is stagzei
ihg In its immensely. He, and he alone
can decide for all time the argumei
az to the comparative merits of life i
New York and life IN Philadelphia. Nil
lions yet unborn wait bresthlessly upo
his decision. III the meantime. wher
does Mrs. Meyer live?
In Hackensack