Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-14
'0nE IN TEN MARRIAGES
IS ANNULLED BY DIVORCE
Number in Every State Except Four
Has Steadily Increased
5S Since 1906.
BURIAL MATCHES LAST LONGER
Couples Who Live on Farms Appa--
emily Are Too Busy to Squabhlc.
i Expect Many War Brides to Sever
Relations.
ny BEATRICE rAIREAN.

oulIctln oil Inc Federal Census DC
partment reveals the fact tina, more
than 10 per cent OF the marriages in
this country end in divorce. And that
the number and proportion Of divorces
have been steadily increasing for the
Since 1905 the number of divorces
has Increased in every state Of thc
DnIon esss sG Belgrade Mnne T2@n
( states are suficiently far apart, geo
graphically speaktns. TO eliminate The
factors factors in the conservation of family
from these four Sam r states domSs-
tically speaking. is that each has ),
large agricultural population and that
70 squabhie Bu; as the argument fails
!, IN regard 10 other states with usually
a larss farming c93nmuniiieS. We arc
valleys are entirely matter OF
divorces began to Increase IN the
War; From he year 1851 "a lE.6 they
offieiai figure showed, ll2,o2d DEGREES.
In the ten years preceding IN. last Fed
e esni census the op2epn,aiion Of he
divorces increased 6s.4 per cent
And the end OF the great world var
speeding up in the number o. divorces.
War is notorious stinulant Of the
BIC Z You nnsG ,eG 5sPen, At lespF
marry for patriotic reasons and appar-
, entity require LITTLE persuasion. The
fairy tha; would seem TO masque-ad e
as Cupid. when these unions fail.
..Eninst the Husbands.
The detailed statistics OF ioS.7o2 de-
! crees granted in 1915 indicate ihA; Sill
per cent were granted q the husbands
ton and non SUPPORT, which are The
, conmonesi causes % oreaA!nc no
marriage ne leads he d@partmcnt ON
Gals 70 susseSt hat u Is due 20 ms
chief sinners
The question q iaIdsh;y and The
food ter though; More mon were
re rs c =. 5 ~ b l on
OF the is.Sa DEGREES s-aa:ad for ihis
cause, $50 w,.-e :or L:adeljy on ;he
OF the husband
oas ray b. hardened %. spetuiatine
th.i! p-o oi: audacifY 1 mas ~" hsvs
giayed = he securing Of these $3.50
Improperly in dressing. OF the par,
Of ths ~emsn. each is zsni,h du9ine
The, SAPolenic vars. and present day
lonsed-.o- respite ION the eternal
feminine" chTonicaLy on view.
a:shes ne grounds to- fewer divorces
Than recent prohibition agitation would
cad o. sHpee; DEGREES were
. which Is rath-- mild showing for
lie demon --;rl and ~ The SAN. TIME
4, the figures taA 20 stale which s-x.cay-
: alcoho.
. Hoxever in juethc to our friends
re Temperance asitato:s. it Is only
$50: divorces granted for drunkenness
! that whisky as a cont-ibuto-y cause
s Wss n'xsi into thousands o. other
a part O: The official record
De~crtion snd Divorce.
Desertioa is the most fruitful source
Of divorce II. the United states, being
/ tine DEGREES. This charge may mean
!ncompa tib!lity. shittlessness. non-su7-
faiIings. The irresponsible par,ne- has
way OF side-stepping his matrimonial
blunder. He prefers 20 fade away
rather than TO. stand and face IN"
music this enables the survivor 10 sue
on charge OF deseriion
Many people are under the impress
ston that ahmony is peculiarly per
( State Of Wisconsin disprovcs This fall
lacy In 1916 @5i per cent Of the
Wisconsin dect>es gave tho husband a
pfe1eNred position as 10 al!moay.
The significant fact rs tina; divorce
IS on the increase in tho United States.
(. One marriage ou; of eve-y ten goes
on the rocks, and yA9- thci.cry is for
Z the life of nation is made M Of lis
collective home lie and one canno,
survive without the other tina. our
speeding UP the divorce mill Will bear
looking into.
Pntr"ns OF Divorce. the itch
The great patrons Of the divorce
courts arc the rich--or AT least the
Weh-to-do-s.nce legal separation is q
LEFTY mrTFy vel vel MS 1ish out Of reach Of ne
from the courts often as the Well
to-dn or the -ich; they are TOO busy
trying 10 keep alive to consider scri.
ousiy the trivial causes OF disagree.
1nent OF their more prosperous neigh.
bors
A lack OF the home making oual-
Titles on the part OF the girls O! this
gen eration is another fruitful cause OF
divorce. Would IL not be we'll If our
Public schools concerned themselves
with this problem Seriously Initial at
tempts have been made in this dircc-
tion, but thcy have not gone nearly
far enough. y thorough course in
Dome etic Science ough, TO he given