The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-05-22
DIVORCE
. COMPLIANT
IS A GEM
Dental Romance in Gary Is
uIvuIged When Lawyers
Get Busy

Lawyers are generally considered
prosaic and matter-offact critters.
Their writings as a rule make
mighty dull and stupid reading for
the layman. 1t takes another law
yer to dope them out
Hence, when Capouch & Miller.
Gary lawyers. dropped in this morn
ing at the Hammond court house
and filed complaint, not much was
expected. 1t was a divorce suit.
That promised something.
PerusaI showed it TO be a good
divorce suit. as the morbid public
views such things.
But, my dears, The language Of
il all. Its a literary gem. So diff
ferent. you know. from the usual
run of legal papers. Reads more
like a spicy little story.
Well. it concerns the marital af-
fairs of Walter b. Younskin and his
wife. Beatrice. of Gary. The open
ing paragraphs are hromidic- Mar
ried September Z. 1918; separated
May 10. 1922. But quickly the at
torneys warm up to their story.
They soon forget the ponderous
style of the legal advisor.
In brief. Mrs. YounEkin had sev-
eral bad teeth. They needed fixing.
so she went TO a certain Gary den
tist and had him look them over.
He gave her price 1t would cost
s1s TO patch up her smile.
That was all right with Mr..
Youngkin. Then started the ap-
pointments With the dentist. They
were numerous. 1t took t h e
months for the dentist to do that
s19 worth of filing. Folks began
talking. They noticed that Mrs.
Youngkin's appointments with the
dentist we're generally at the fag
end of the day so that she would
be the last patient. Then Someone.
as someone generally does, whis-
pered an inlSling of It in Mr. Young
kin's ear We'll, what of it?" he
queried. Husbands are generally
that way.
But someone else put another bug
in his ear He continued to hear
more and more until he decided
something should be done. He ask
ed Beatrice about i. and she readi-
ly admitted meeting the dentist. oft
times clandestinely. He found out
other things.
AS Messrs. Capouch & Miller put
II: These tete-a-tete seances were
not entirely confined to the privacy
OF said dental offices, but as the
ouently fare forth in said dentists s
automobile emboldened by care
free abandon sufficient in itself TO
render envious any fapper outside
of Hollywood
How's that7 But to continue.
Youngkin lad noticed the waning OF
his wife's affections. They kept
slipping until she gave up all sem
blance OF wanting to be an en-
couragement and helpmeet to him,
but wandered far afeld and astray
from the last remnants of her forIr-
er zeal and ardor for their domestic
felicity and lost and enmeshed her
self in the maze and labyrinth of
the world and it's phantom allure
ment and folly"
At first he thought she was i'll and
was even more tender toward her.
But
when the full significance and
truth of the situation was thus
brought home to him, the unexpect-
edness of Ii all fell upon his stun
ned and affrighted comprehension
and unwilling belief with all its ap-
palling force and crushing weight
and left him cast down low. in the
s,-4+
Back to earth again The Young
lins have a son. twenty months old.
Mr. Youngkin desires his custody.
The family has lived at ten address,
es in the last two years The ad-
dress this morning was 5000 Harri-
son st.