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The Washington herald., 1919-07-28
Suatti11g the Diuorce ':Bug''
Famous Divorce Court Judge Describes Gem in ForeWord to
Six Articles on Causes and Cure of Marital Troubles.

tion Of poisons. or violation of the
tombs.
A Social Disease.
One hundred and ten years later
the Rnperors Theodosius and VAL
entinian added to these grounds for
divorce the following; Treason,
adultery, forgery, stealing from a
church, attempting a wife's life or
beating her. and the introduction
Of immoral women into the home.
Thus the bug" began TO thrive
and flourish, and "divorcitis" took
its place among the important So
cial diseases of the world.
Just now America seems to be
a particularly fertile ground for
it, to our tremendous Hauonai det-
riment.
With the growth of Americas s
sense of Justice, unfortunately
showing itself by making divorces
easier and easier, thousands Of hus-
bands and wives are rushing into
the courts with fancied or magnifed
grievances and demanding a free
dom which only spells misery for
themselves and all OF US in the end.
Meeting this situation taxes the
ingenuity and patience of those hav-
ing authority to unite marital knots.
but who would far rather discover
just why the knots were slipping
and apply some remedies.
In the succeeding articles fer The
Herald j will attempt to describe
some of these remedies, together
with the symptoms and phases of
"divorcitis"-which every husband
and wife at some time has to COM
bat with greater or less vigor.
CONTINUED Tomorrow
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28
Navy Yard News

Mrs. Hortense McKevitt, of the new
supply department, is on leave, suffer
ing from grippe.
H. R. Singley. frst-class painter on
the L. S. S. Mayfiower, who recently
re-enlisted. is at his home in Gettys-
Millard Mules, OF the torpedo shop,
and wife: Rowland Crowthers. OF the
tool shop, and family; and his father,
Thomas H. Crowthers. of the east
gun carriage shop. and wife. will
motor to Baltimore Thursday evening,
leaving that city Friday for Atlantic
City, where they will spend four or
five days.
George Cromwell. OF the gunners'
workshop. spent a few days at his
camp on Back River. Baltimore
Miss Myra Stewart. OF the supply
department will spend a few days in
Philadelphia. visiting friends. among
them. her hance's mother.
William J. Yochan. Of the electric
power plant, and his wife. have re-
turned, after a two-weeks visit to
Buffalo.
D. ]. Boody, R. Keko. ]. Sims and
r. Sharp, OF the boiler shop. spent
Saturday and Sunday fishing at Rock
Point
John Cotter. Of the tool shop, and
his wife enjoyed the bathing at
Chapel Point yesterday.
Sam Weaver. of the gunners' work
shop. spent a few days at his old
home in Baltimore
G. Arnold and George J. Fey. Of the
gun shop. are recovering from in
Jur1es received in an accident al
Ninth and ! streets southeast They
were trying to avoid hitting an auto
mobile and the motorcycle they were
riding ran into the curb and hit a
tree. The machine was badly dam
aged
Morris Shapiro. o. the oreech
mechanism shop, with his bride, is on
a thirty-days' trip. visiting Chicago.
Cleveland, Detroit and other parts Of
Michigan.
Frank Klopfer, of the tool shop. with
his family, motored to Coltons. Satur-
day. Frank will spend a vacation OF
one week, while his family will have
longer stay.
Heinie Wagner, of the torpedo tube
shop. motored to Baltimore. Friday.
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HOROSCOPE.
MONDAY. JULY rs, 1919.

mOhDAN, JULY ZSs lb1bs
Copyright. fss, By the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndiczte.)
Mercury rules strongly for good to-
day. according to astrology. but the
planetary sway Is not an important
one.
II Is a sway good for newspapers,
Uranus indicating that there will be
sensational dispatches that arouse
public feeling.
There is a sign read as indicating
explosions, both by accident and in
the course of cowardly plots. which
will multiply. despite police activity,
the seers declare.
Owing to the posting Of the stars
occultists prophesy that the world
effect OF thought that seethes con-
stantly because truth and justice are
in combat with all the evil forces that
prey on humanity.
Orators, writer's, reporters, teachers
and secretaries are believed to bench,
especially when Mercury is in benefic
aspect as in this days conhguration
Forces inclining toward investiga-
ton. inquiry and research will operate
constantly until the end of the year
astrologers foretell.
The stars appear to give promise
that certain conditions affecting ma
tions malehcally will improve in the
autumn. but five years of turmoil are
foreshadowed.
Unpopularity for persons at the
head OF national governments Is pres
aged by the planets. Heroes will
be reviled by ungrateful peoples
those extolled within a year will be
reviled. France and Italy will come
under this influence most noticeably
and II will also affect the United
States. occultists say.
Thrift that saves effort as well as
material will operate to solve domes-
tic problems, IL the stars are read
Alright, and there will be much preach
ing about the value of time.
System and efficiency will be greatly
aided by the rule of the stars. as
trologers predict.
Marriage laws and customs are to
occupy attention, owing to new soctal
conditions and problems.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is have
the forecast of a successful year. but
they may be drawn into costly quar-
rels or controversies.
Children born on this day may be
erratic or wayward. but they will
possess fine mentality and develop
unusual talents. II properly directed.
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By JUDGE THOS. F. GRAHAM
tsnn Francisco Divorce Judge
Known ms "Grent ReconciIer,- and
Americas Leading "Heart- Spec
inlist.)

tnltStD
Excepting the germs of Bolshevism,
there Is no bug" more menacing to
our general happiness and welfare to-
day than the ''divorcitis" maggot.
This disease, in the treatment of
which I have specialized to a greater
or less degree during the past ten
years. may easily become epidemic
1t attacks the minds of married folk
in a hundred different ways-but each
particular route leads to a court room,
leaving a wrecked home behind it.
"Divorcitis.-
That Is the almost invariable result
unless the specialist in "divorcitis"-
usually the superior court judges to
whom the afflicted wife or husband
tells the story-uses the palliativ OF
common sense and the milk Of human
kindness.
The divorce plague is comparatively
modern,
True, the Bible tells US of men who
put aside" their wives for one rea-
son or another-but there was no
legal or church sanction until the
middle period OF the Roman empire
when it became legal for a man to
divorce his wife, and for a father to
take his daughter from her husband
against the wishes Of both.
Even then separation Of husba nd
and wife were so distasteful that
for fifty years no man took advan-
tae- OF the law. The first man TO
invoke it was Spurius Ruga, who
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demanded, angrily. You're romano
ing. idealizing. l never did believe in
such stuff myself and I'm not going
to now"
But don't you realize" cried.
that the crucible of life should be
swung over the fires OF a love that
burn steadily and purely. that give
more than they consume?
And now" demanded. at last.
passionately, do you think your love
is equal to that? Could you. would
you reach your hand out into the un-
known and drag a little innocent into
your life and mine that you have
been making a hell? Could you, Crit
tenden Hayes?'
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those of cotton leatherette
II gloves are of natural chamois
coloring. they are often trimmed in
white-and if they are white the
maker has many times lined them
with yellow to give a soft creamy
tone.
With the sport and ever-ready slip
on devices are numerous and attrac-
tive. Many. too, are fastened at the
wrist with a well-tailored strap and
sturdy clasp, so that the cuff Is free
to extend over the dress or suit
sleeve in musketeer fashion. Finger
tips are often stitched on the outside.
further carrying out the fat, tailored
impression.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28
How to Use Last
Summers Dresses

When a heightened hem will not
make last summers dress long
enough for this seasons demands, a
hem of contrasting material has been
found by many women to be most
practical. If this new color note is
repeated at belt and cum. none but
the most discerning will realize that
last seasons gown is again doing
service.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28

Gloves to meet and half meet the
new short puff sleeves. that many
OF the newest frocks are showing.
are the accepted mode. Then. as if
u supply the deficiency between
sleeve and glove. Dame Fashion has
made up all sorts of pretty. fluffy
scarfs of pastel-toned Georgettes
and of dainty crepes to throw over
the shoulder.
For the afternoon frock and the
party dress the white glace glove
has found no substitute. But to
wear with the printed summer
Toiles, and the sport linens, the
Washington shops are now display
ing washable Chamois gloves and
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28
TANNING MY HUSBAND
BY KATHLEEN FOX.
Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure Newspaper


II have the finest reason a woman
could have" l said
And then, with one of his hands on
the steering wheel and the other
clutching the flesh of my arm, he
made me tell him what l meant.
II mean merely this" l began, try
ing not to squirm as his fingers dug
into my arm. AN innocent little life
should be protected long. long before
1t begins. That, to me, is as true as
religion.
We've got a nice home, plenty to
eat and wear" he exclaimed. "A
youngster wouldn't fare badly if he
lived with us"
Il don't mean that. Crittenden," 1
said. You are bound to realize the
impossibility of the thing under the
circumstances. You know as we'll as
l do what our life has been-is now"
What's that got to do with it?" he
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28
CANTAlOUPE PICKLE.

Select melons that are not quite
ripe; open. scrape out pulp. peel, slice
and lay in a weak brine overnight.
The next day boil in a weak solution
OF alum water till transparent; lift
out, drain. wipe dry. then boil twenty
minutes in the boiling syrup and
spices.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28

was porn IN llEo- mere mas "
his birth. but recent investigators
the family moved to the county OF
village school when only seven,
where the master, while teaching
reading, writing and arithmetic.
managed to also fill the minds Of his
pupils with stories Of fairies, ghosts,
banshees.
Goldsmith left this school at the
age of nine. and went to several
grammar schools. and acquired
some knowledge of the ancient lam
guages. He was not a brilliant
scholar; in fact was considered
rather backward. He was small Of
stature. with features harsh to ug-
illness. and was the butt of the
other boys and the masters
After many and varied attempts
repeated failures. he took to writ
ing. As his name gradually be-
came known, his circle of acquaint-
ances widened. He was introduced
to johnson. then considered the frss
Of English writers, to Sir Joshua
REYNOLDS the famous English
painter. and others.
Before the Vicar Of Wakefield"
appeared in 1856. came the great
crisis of GOldsmith's life. In Christ
mas week 1854. he published
poem. entitled The Traveller 1t
was the first work to which he had
put his name. and il raised him AZ
once to the rank of a legitimate
English classic.
After The Traveller appeared
rapidly obtained a popularity which
times
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28
LEMON FLAVOR

Lemon juice is more satisfactory
than lemon extract for merinCUes and
icings, In fact the fresh fruit Is a.
ways preferable to the extract as Il
gives a more delicious fiavorlng.
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28

repudiated his wife on account of
barrenness. A Roman senator was
once expelled from his high office
for unjustly divorcing his wife.
In A. D. 331 the Emperor Con-
stantine decreed. for the first time,
that a wife might divorce her hus-
band for any one of the following
three crimes: Murder, the prepara-
The Washington herald., 1919-07-28
CONDENSED NOVEL SERIES
OLIVER GOLDSMITH


claimed
Elphn Roscommon while
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The earlier
Of
Of the worthy OF the
beginning =.
hand he
Theatre
led on Apr4 n He laid in
forgotten
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supply department, is on leave. suffer
ing from grippe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-09

r CENATOR WARE has opened his South
~ Broad street house and says that he
has been sleeping there for a week. AS
a voter has to live in his division only
two months before election day the scna-
tor is evidently prepared to qualify.
What he would have done if his right
to register had not been challenged no
one but he knows.
The attention that has been attracted
TO his absenteeism is followed ~ his
abandonment for the time of his palace
in the Whitemarsh valley, where he could
rest his eyes on green fields, running
brooks and broad expanses of sky. He
must sleep in the city, disturbed by the
honk of automobiles and with the cleo
trio lights of a movie show across the
street shining into his bedroom win
dows.
q Cruel, isn't it, that the amiable senator
Should be forced to forgo his ease just
because somebody insists that the law
sshould be obeyed?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-09
A PULLMAN CAR NIGHTMARE?

n EW0 dispatches declare President
Wilson is making his speeches ex-
temporaneously, without notes of any
kind. This is dangerous for even such
an expert public speaker as he. Several
times on his trip he has voiced phrases
and sentences which betray traces of bad
temper. Some of the expressions result
ing are foolish in the light of calm read
ing.
One Of these is the declaration yester-
day that "the only way the Shantung
provision Of the treaty could be bettered
would be to go to war with Japan, Eng
land and France"
Irritation or anger or some other agi-
tating emotion must have provoked this
astonishing statement. 1t is an indict-
ment so sweeping, so cynically condem-
natory of three nations to which we have
been led to think the war bound US with
sacrticial blood ties, that no sane person,
least of all an idealist President, could
believe it to be the only alternative to
sanctioning a grave injustice to China.
If what the President says is true, it
would mean that, despite all that
America has suffered and contributed in
the last two years for the sake of Eng
land and France, the peoples of those
countries would prefer war with the
United States before ameliorating one
jot of the secret agreements of 1917 dis
posing of Germany's Shantung possess
sions to Japan. We refuse to believe it.
What can have happened to the Presi-
dent to put such dark and phantasmal
forebodings into his mind? Did sena-
torial obstinacy produce presidential
nightmares which some tongue-imp by
slip prompted him to picture? Doctor
Grayson should look to his distinguished
patients digestion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-09
THE WRONG TIME TO DO IT

WHEN most of us are wondering what
Nv can be done to bring down the high
cost of living the United Mine Workers
of America are discussing in their annual
convention in Columbus a reduction in
the hours of labor and an increase in pay.
They want six-hour day and five-day
week, and they want their wages raised
from 25 to 60 per cent.
Theoretically six-hour day and five
day week may be ideal for workers in
coal mines. 1t is not pleasant to work
underground, but there are many men
and women working in factories in this
city under worse conditions than those
imposed on the mine workers. A shorter
working day for the miner means dearer
coal for the factory worker; and higher
wages for the miner will raise the price
of coal still higher.
We are not arguing against either the
better wage or the shorter hour, but we
would suggest that the present is not an
opportune time for insisting on anything
which will make the burden heavier on
the shoulders of every head of house
hold,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-09
LOW OLD TIMES IN JERSEY

COMETHING of the anguish that swept
~ New Jersey on July has been forgot
ten in the sharper pain caused by the
Public Utilities Commissions grant Of
zone-fare privileges to the trolley corpo-
ration.
(, The new high rates of fare will be-
come effective on the 18th of this month.
AS that fell date approaches it is ap-
parent that street-car fares rather than
prohibition may be the dominant issue
at the next election. Mr.. Nugent, the
"wet" candidate, has, oddly enough,
been put into partial eclipse by the zone
fare decision, though he appears to have
had a fighting chance before a new po-
litical crisis was created by a public
service corporation which is determined
to follow the lines of least resistance in
the quest for revenue
No candidate for the Jersey governor
ship has yet made the trolley-fare issue
his own. Until some one does we ought
to keep an eye on Mr.. Mtten, to be sure
that the people of New Jersey do not
abduct him, keep him captive and run
him for the big job at Trenton.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-09
OLD VETS" IN 1912

MO KHAKI-CLAD youngster who
fought in France is thinking of what
he will be doing in the year 1872, but
some of the rest of US, considering the
annual encampment of the Grand Army
Of the Republic in Columbus this week.
might well wonder what sort of an or
ganization of veterans of the war with
Germany will be left fifty-fo wears
after the close of that war. 1t is fiftv-
four years since Grant received the sur
render of the Confederates under the
famous apple tree at Appomattox and the
survivors of his armies are still active
and interested in keeping alive their or
ganizatiOn.
The American Legion, which is to in
clude the veterans of the war Just ended
is now forming. Politicians are consider
ing ways and means of catering to the
soldier vote as they did in the seventies
and eighties of the last century. And the
soldiers are considering what they can
give te the government, rather than
what they can get out of it. But after
all they are likely to be the men who will
be the leaders in public life in very few
years, and for a generation they will
dominate both political parties, not be-
cause they were soldiers, but because
they are the kind of men who are willing
TO serve the nation and because they
have initiative and Imagination.
There is probably not man at the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-09
THE CHAFFING DISH

sunlight, with brightness on it's varnished
wings. The lighthouse at the Inlet has be-
gun to twinkle its golden flash, and supper
will soon be on the table. The solitary
swimmer takes one last regretful plunge
through a sluicing hill of green, and hunts
out his pipe. He had left it, as the true
smoker does, carefully filled, with a match
box beside it. in a dry hollow on the sand.
Trailing a thread Of blue reek, he plods
cheerfully across the fields, taking care not
to tread upon the small hoptoads that have
come out to hail the evening. Behind him
the swelling moon floats like a dim white
lantern, penciling the darkening water with
faint scribbles of light
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-09

Orleans, established by example the un-
savory political principle "To the victor
belong the spoils." We were spared
George B. Mcclellan. We were spared
Winfield Scott Hancock in the White
House. Zachary Taylor chastiser of
Santa Ana at Buena Vista, was an alto
| gethcr inconsequental President.
And still for many years after the Civil
| War campaign managers with single
| track minds clung to their illusions. 1t
was considered an asset that Garfield,
| Hayes, Harrison and Mckinley had
served in the federal armies, and Theo-
dore Roosevelt with a variety of brilliant
and valid qualifications was weari-
somely overadvertised for his ascent of
San Juan.
Have we graduated from such falla-
cies? 1t seems highly likely that we
have. And nothing will more convinc-
ingly increase the access of wisdom than
the obvious and gratifying relationship
between John j. Pershng and the public.
War is no longer glittering melodrama.
1t is sickening reality. From the bottom
Of its heart the nation thanks it's general
that he was so potent an instrument in
ending the most terrible blight which
men themselves ever inflicted on hu-
manty.
Had the struggle not been so appall-
ingly serious a commander like Pershins
might never have arisen. But he did and
in consequence he owes nothing to fiction
and false sentiment, and the admiration
Of the public is clean and wholesome.
Occasional wonderment concerning
what would happen to Pershing on his
return has been expressed. There
should be no need for uncertainty. AS
he fitted into the army in peace, he fitted
into war, to the best of his admirable
straightforward abilities. His laurels
are secure. And unless we slip back into
antcdiluvian procedure, so is the con-
tidence of the nation secure in a public
servant appraised for precisely what he
is worth If that valuation be kept in its
proper confines it will be undimmed.
So far as American military personali-
ties are concerned Pershng wound up
the war. Gratitude for this act cannot
be excessive, so long as the reasons for
our fighting are sanely remembered, 50
long as we repel all spurious glamour
from the tragedy.
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The APOSTLE of Unrest
A GLIMPSE of the godhead; a speck of

A GLIMPSE of the godhead; speck of
n ininity:
OF time n complete representative part -
He has in his mind all the germs of divinity
And the pulse of the universe beats in
his heart
With a basis of sense and touch Of insan-
The madness divine that makes intellect
grow
He's no better, no worse than the rest OF
humanity, ., .a.n
Save an urge from within that compels
him to go
Onward, still onward "a cross and a
crown ward.
Onward! till cheeks have grown hag-
gard and wan.
Onward and upward or onward and
downward!
Going and going! and going and
gone!
GRIF ALEXANDER.
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France After the War

TIC w
CHE stands erect Her fine, black locks
~ blown back
She feels She feels her crushing loss of
youth,
Yet on her archcd lips there is a smile,
And her clear. liquid eyes reflect the truth.
Her hand is resting on her noble sword,
She looks with steadfast gaze toward the
Rhine,
And in her face so sweet, so calm, so pale,
There is a look of suffering born. divine.
Though politics grow red as clotted blood.
And statesmen pause in dread, as in
trance,
Yet these can never soil the quiet face,
The inward spirit of immortal France
NIAX MEYER DE SCHAUENSEE.
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Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

/. Judge Elbert II. Gary is chairman Of
the United States Steel Corporation.
2. The Ozark Mountains are in southern
Missouri.
8. Fanny Kemble was a noted Anglo
American actress. Her dates are
1S09-1S93.
4. A burn is a small stream or creek. The
word is Scotch.
5. There were eight Crusades.
6. A plantain is tropical fruit allied to
the banana.
Z. esprit de corps" should be pronounced
as though it were spelled ''espreed
core"
s. Bushes were tall fur army caps for
merly worn by English hussars, artil-
lery and engineers.
0. Amundsen discovered the South Pole.
10. Lord Charles Beresford who died on
September Z, was an English admiral,
particularly noted for his forceful
methods and frank speaking. He was
a life loag friend of America.
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Unforbidden Fruit

\ recent experience in
Unforbidden Fruit Laurel, Del, seems to
show that you may
lead n man from the bar, but you can't
make him quit wanting to drink Some
body put cider into cream separator and
discovered that the fluid that came out of
the spout intended for cream had a kick to
it sufficiently potent to land several men
in the, lookup. \ professor from Delaware
College is now conducting experiments to
discover just what chemical action is re-
sponsible. 1t is not on record that he is
having any difficulty in procuring an ade-
quate number Of assistants.