The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-11
IS DIVORCE AN
INHERITED ILL?
Tendency to Seek Legal
Separation Seen in
Families
EXAMPLE BIG FORCE
People Born With High
Strung Natures Quick to Re
sent Unpleasant Ties
By MARGERY REX

NEW YORK, April Be- Many
mothers leave their daughters an
an inheritance or beauty or charm.
others bcqucath Jewels and old lace.
Some women rcliupuish wealth to
their daughters, some q proud name.
II II possible FOR the tendency TO
divorce to be left ~ an inheritance
from mother to daughter?
The story Of the Stllmaus W. now
common property As prologue to
ihc unhappy drama rs the life story
uf tho beautiful and accomplished
mother Of Mrs. Ammo Crquhart
Stillmau. She is Cora Brown Potter,
divorced by stern husand who
did not approve of her espousal Il
"A stage career.
Now "Fir." her daughter, IN I'm.
dcrgoiug the same experience. cN-
pept that James \. Stillmau makc0
charges Of nature entirely dit.
forcnt than those upon which the
Potter divorce was secured in that
case abandonment.
Tendencies run through families.
Even divorce would appear to- be
inherited " ono were TO Judge by
some noted examples Of family
groups in which marital happiness
seems impossible To achieve.
Disposition Gun ic inherited.
While tho actual desire to divorce
would not, of course, be inherited
nevertheless the disposition of char
Hcter that would iumand freedom
from an unpleasant situation could
be transmitted from parent to child.
We know that certain diseases
which are supposed by many TO he
Inherited" positively cannot he
handed down from parent TO off
spring.
But prcdisposltiou can bo trans
mittcd from a mother TO her chill
drcn.
People may say. for instance, that
IN such and such family they have
all inherited" "A certain mnlpdy.
but the fact propably IN that from
one or the other parent the children
have received n tendency 10 develop
such "A disease, ana perhaps living
In such conditions as fostercd the
disease In the parent, have, them
selves acquired II.
II IN quite likely that n tendency
TO social disease, divorce for ex-
ample might be present az wo,l IA
tho disposition to develop "A bodily
al.
Powerful Force of Example.
A proud and independent spirit
which would make "A mother break
away from marital bondage, when
IL ksome, might be transmitted to n
daughter, The daughter. In turn
might find life 40 unpleasant with
her husband that her high -strunl
nature would prompt her to get
divorce or, in the event OF her lonv
ing such husband. might caus,
him to divorce her,
Added to such n spirited natur,
there would be one or the creates
forces In the world. the forcc o
example.
The mothers example Will al
ways impel daughter. In mo-
mcnt of doubt she will he very apt
TO do AZ her mother has done I'm q
like quandery.
Daughters OF Divorces, deep IL
marriage difficulti,s, will bo likolS
&c decide upon divorce themselves.
The "Fashionablo Frenchs." o.
New York and Newport, exemplifN
one case In which mother who wal
divorced had two divorced daugh
tors. n divorced aunt and numerou
other matrimonial complication
throughout various branches OF he
family.
Mrs Leroy French In 1914 di
vorced Amos Tuck French. Mrs
Julia French Geraghty, ono OF he
daughters, In 1919 divorced Jacl
Geraghty. her chauffeur husband
Mrs. Polly French Wagstaff know
as the beautiful Pauline LcRo
French, divorced Samuel Wagstnf
in June, 1920.