The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-04-06

Buy Divorces, and IT ne nao inem
for Sale.
sale; and you ought to have heard
those men laugh. There were six Of
them sitting around the stove behind
me.
"Oh, yes, my little maid (above all
things I abhor to be called a little
maid!) one Of them cried. 'You can
buy them if you've got money enough !;
but / don't reckon our friend Jones
here has got them for SALE"
Then they all laughed again, and
winked at each other. (That's another
disgusting thing-winks when you ask
a perfectly civil question! But what
can you do? Stand it, that's all,
There's such a lot of things we poor
women have to standby Then they
ouieted down and looked very sober
the kind Of sober you know is faced
with laughs in the back-and began
to tell me what a divorce really was.
I can't remember them all, but l can
some Of them. OF course understand
now that these men were trying to
be smart, and were talking for each
other, not for me. And I knew 1t
then-a little. We know lot more
things sometimes than folks think we
do. Well, as near as can remember
it was like this:
"a divorce is knife that cuts q
knot that hadn't ought to ever been
tied," said one.
"A divorce is a jump in the dark,
said another.
mo, it amt. It's jump from the
frying pan into the fire." piped up Mr..
Jones.
"A divorce is the comedy Of the rich
and the tragedy Of the poor" said q
little man who wore glasses.
"Divorce Is a nice smushy poultlce
that may help but won't heal" cut IN
a new voice.
divorce is a guidepost marked,
FL to Heaven but lots Of folks miss
the way, just the same, I notice"
spoke up somebody with chuckle.
"Divorce is a towards retreat from
the battle of life" Captain Harris said
this. He spoke slow and decided. Cap
tain Harris Is old and rich, and not
married. He's the hotels star boarder,
and what he says, goes, most always
But it didn't this time. I can remem-
Der just how old Mr.. Carlton snapped
out the next.
"Speak from your own experience
Tom Harris, an I'm thinkin' you amt
fit ter Judge. I tell you divorce Is
what three fourths Of the husbands an
wives in the world wish was waitin'
for 'em at home this very night. But
il amt there" I knew, Of course, he
was thinking of his wife. She's some
cross, 1 guess, and has two warts on
her nose.
There was more, quite lot more,
said. But I've forgotten the rest. Be-
sides, they weren't talking to ne then,
anyway. So I picked up my thread
and slipped out of the store, glad to
escape. But, as said before, I didn't
find rlary like them.
Of course 1 know now-what divorce
Is. 7 mean. And it's all settled. They
granted us some kind Of decree or
degree, and we're going to Boston next
Monday.
It's been awful, though-thls last
year. First we had to % to that nor
rid place out west, and stay ages and
ages. And I hated it. Mother did, TOO
I know she did. went to'school, ana
there were quite lot OF girls my age
and some boys; but I didn't care mucn
for them. I couldn't even have the run
of surprising them with the divorce we
were going to have. l found they were
going to, have one, foo-every last one
of them. And when everybody has a
thing, you know there's no particular
fun in having it yourself. Besides,
they were very unkind and disagree
able, and Dragged lot about their
divorces. They said mine was tame,