The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
By Their Breakfasts
 You Shall KnoU Them
By THOMAS L. MAssoN

Divorces are on the increase. So the 7uthorities say. l name no names. 1 quote no statistics. I am not that kind
 of liar l only know that in well in- Formed efficiency circles it is stated that n is getting to be quite as common for d man to be separated from his Wife as Z1t is from his bank account
 You don't even have to be a moving picture star to get a divorce. Also, you may be quite married man in one state < and an alfalfa widower in another You 8are married or not, according to location. sNpomesticity is a matter of time tables, AAnd, as everybody knows, time tables gre unreliable As state, alimony has nct yet been admitted to the matri- naonial union, but it is getting to be q Hair sized territory. Not being a statis- tlcian, do not know how far all the < divorced couples would reach if placed end to end-may be as far as from Reno to Harlem.
 # In the meantime, it is our sacred 6uty to sift this matter to the bottom. It can't go on. We cannot just keep on marrying women only to discover that they don't t love us any more, just when we have got them so they are trained. To leave our dens alone and not go about chan@~sS blotters us and filling the place full of sofa pillows and mosquito netting.
 We American husbands have enough troubles without having to change wives all the time. They tell me that in some of the higher circles around and apper- taining to Manhattan Island the wives come and go oftener than the hired help. This is all wrong.
 If you are a rnultirniIlionaire, think of coming home after hard days work on the stock exchange and finding strange lady playing bridge with your guests and making noise like a hostess. Think of having her calmly announce: Yes, I am your new wife. And do you know, Charles, you forgot to have the mono gram changed on the limousine Think of the inconvenience of thing like that
 Besides, it's hard on others. We Amer ican husbands mustn't get selfish, what ever else we do. It isn't fair to the people we employ to keep ringing in new wife every few weeks It's hard on the income tax expert wno makes put your form, to have to remember all rne new names. It's hard on the grocer. He never knows whether the lady who calls from your house and asks for two more pounds of sugar is entitled to it or not. Of course the children like it. Novelty always appeals to them. But the joy to the little ones of getting new mama every once in a while ought to be curbed. Children have too much pleasure any way. That's what's the matter with this country; the children are all spoiled. Why, in New York city alone there are 70,oOo Of them, who because they cannot feed at home, are actually given meals by the authorities If we are going to let them have all the new parents they want, they will get so after while they'll all De living at home after they are 16, just for the fun of it.
 We husbands have got to stand together in this important matter. If it is neces- sary for us to be divorced from perfect- ly good wife every once in while, then the whole management ought to be put on a regular business basis. A nationwide movement to standardize divorce is in Aorder The first thing necessary is ma trinonial clearing house. A man who can't get on with his wife ought to be able to hand her in and exchange her for another according to definite rules. Up -e5 the present time the whole thing hAs