The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-08
MRS. NIXON APPLIES
FOR DIVORCE IN LA.

The Countess d'Aleria, fifty years
old, widow of the late Senator Nix
on Of Nevada, who recently married
Count d'Aleria. twenty-one years old,
has filed suit for divorce. She alleges
cruelty and misconduct with an I'M
identified woman She says the count
struck her while she was under a
physicians care. An injunction was
issued restraining d'Aleria from dis
posing of two automobiles and
jewelry belonging to her or from
molesting her.
Discussing e~ntertainingly her phil
osophy on love and marriage, Mrs.
Kate /. Nixon D'Aleria, widow of the
late Senator George Nixon, of Nevada,
made a most interesting subject for
the interviewer.
Success in marriage" she said,
lust as we'll as success in any other
partnership, is not a question of age,
but of ethics. If two people in a bust
ness partnership have not the same
ideas of honor, fairness and straight
forward dealing, there will not only
be unhappiness in the firm, but :
wreck in the business venture. 1t is
so with everything else. Every sort
of an alliance has to have a stable
moral foundation.
I" OF course, such a many sided If
fair as marriage must have more,
than ethics for its completion. i do
not suppose a temperamental must
clan and a mat~ter-of-fact mathema-
tician would have much in common,
but no matter how congenial tastes
nay be, no matter how strong the
kinship mentally and e~motionally, if
there are not the same standards of
honor, there will be no permanent
happiness.
81 think one reason, perhaps, thai
older women become interested in
men very much younger than them
selves is that, if we have any spoI-
saneity and optimism left, We become
tired of solemnity and over-serious-
ness, which we know is often merely
a pose of the ~middleaged and elderly,
and we turn to youth for diversion
and relief from this morbid n un-
natural condition.
II do not advocate taking life in a
light and flippant manner, by any
a but the incidents in ones life
should be segregated and met in o
sensible manner and no one incident
;hould be allowed to complicate any
other phase of life. Perhaps it is true
that happiness is woman's greatest
necessity, but women should be more
resourceful in making conditions con-
form to their necessities.
Il neither censure myself nor
blame the count for the ending If
our affairSas it has. l have nothing
whatever to say against him. There
were certain specific charges which
t was necessary to bring before a
court of law. This has been done
and / am sure that whatever wrong
IS found will be given both attention
and redress. l have no definite plans
as to what l am going to do. Life
would not be at all interesting if /
knew exactly what / was going TO
do tomorrow. / think old age on
sists in being limited in ones in
terests and ideas, fixed in ones habits
and so set in prejudices that there
is no possibility of changing.
Perhaps one reason that this mar
riage, which has seemed so unusual
to others, has not appeared to all
bizarre to me is that I never think
of a persons age in summing up his
her character and qualities. If
people find it ludicrous in thinking
of me as a foolish elderly woman be-
coming infatuated with an irresponsi-
BILE youth, they are lore than well
come to the amusement they get our
of it, as far as | am concerned.
There is nothing l have to say to
indicate myself or to apologize for
what I have done. l make no prom
ises as to what | will do in the future.
| have no advice to offer those who
are contemplating the same step. If
a casual caller were to come into my
home l would discuss the paintings