The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-08
Legal Hints To
Women
BY Niolcttc y. Anderson.
.Attorncy-at-Law

Dear Miss Anderson:
Ny husband has been very cruel to
me and | desire TO leave him. We
bought house together several years
ago out OF the money that we both
saved from working. | have always
worked since | was married to him
and paid my share of the expenses.
| II leave him and leave the house will
! lose my part OF the property and all
that ! have worked SO hard for?
No. you will not You can have your
rights adjudicatcd in the divorce courts
when the judge will award you what
appears to be your share OF the prop
| crty
Dear Madame:
/ am getting a divorce from my husl
band on the grounds OF cruelty, and
now he comes around where | work
| all the time. calling me up and telling
me that il | will talk to him he will let
me alone for all the time. The other
night | went out on the back porch 10
speak to him aud he beat me unmer-
eifully. My lawyer tells me TO wait
| until the cast is heard and he will get
paper that will keep him IRON do
ing anything else 10 me Can't he do
that nowf
Since you have employed an attor-
ney to look after your interests yor
should follow his advice. That is what
you paid him for. No doubt he know
exactly what he IS doing. Just a sug
gestion-kcep out OF your husband
way.
Dear Miss Anderson.
have a girl friend who is out in the
Lawndale Hospital aud whenever |
write to her she says that the letters
are opened and all the letters | get
IRON her are opened before they leave
the hospital. Have they THE right to
do that?
Ii your friend IS in Lawndale she is
there is prisoner under treatment,
aud while there she is under police
supervision just the same as il she
were at the County Jail.
Dear Miss Anderson.
bought some lots up in Idlcwild
four years ago, aud never went Ia see
them until this summer ! was told by
the agent that sold them to me that
they were on the lake, and were nice
high lots found that they are down
in the swampy part and not on he
lake front al all. What can | do about
il
Write to the ldlcwild Resort Co,
Write to the agent from whom you
purchased them or the company, and
ask for a substitution OF lots-thcy viii
surely arrange j Tor you for thu:
marshy ground there was not to be
sold Ii YOU do not get satisfactory
results write the secretary OF the Idle
Wild Lot Owners Association at IL
= La Sale Street.
Dear Miss Anderson.
/ have rented a storc front Tor three
years and paid $50 o month without
! heat The windows have been broken
out several times and the landlord re
fuses to tx them unless | will pay him
$50 Il month did not have any lease
and when he did not fix the windows
and refused TO clean at all for me in
the three years, | moved out the last
day OF the month without telling him
about it. Now he says he will SUE me
for the rent Tor this next month Can
he do so.
No Not II you had paid your rent
Iup 10 the date you moved out, and il
YOU had no lease as you say,
Dear Madame.
Can a woman get her maiden name
/ back alter divorce from her husband
ii she wants 1t;
Yes. if she procurcs the divorce aud
Sic ha, no children by chat husband
| II ,hr has. the courts are reluctant td
allow mother 10 bear one name
while her child or children have an
other. 1t would save embarrassment
don't YOU think.