The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-09
DISCARDS 10
HUBBIES TO
FIND IDEAL
First Venture Was With
Farm Hand and Last With S
Quiet Business Man
HAD MUCH EXPERIENCE
Her Daughters Say That She
Was the Best Mother in
the World
HAD MUCH EXPERIENCE
BY ROY J. GIBBONS.
NEA Service Writer.

East st. Louis, ILL.,, Nov. 9.--All her
life, Mrs. Cora Walker La Forge
here has been seeking the perfect
man.
Today, at AS, she believes she mas
band.
Bent on eXacting quest for the
masculine ideal, and her conception
of perfect martial bliss, she cut
loose from 13 previous mates who
failed TO measure up to her stan
dards and thus came into undisputed
possession of the worlds divorce
champi onship.
Her uncanny ability to assemble
and discard lesser halves, dates back
to when she was scarce Ia, and just
plain Cora Walker of Alto Pass.
Iii.
Handsome Farm Hand.
At that age she went to the altar
for the first time with Joseph TruX-
Ter, handsome farm hand of her
own home town"
Hubby No. l was good to look at,
she says, but rather inclined to in
dolence. After three years of help
ing him with their income, she says,
she divorced him.
Since then her checkered conjugal
career has passed from church to
divorce court in such Kaleidoscope
manner that official observers have
almost lost count of the occasions.
In rapid succession she changed
). her last name from Barnes to
Butcher to Crow to Porter to Yates
to Lilley to Whitney, etc.
All, So Happy!
Once again she is back to the let
ter H." with Henry La Forge
N her fast-shifting train of bubbles.
He is a personable, middle-aged
business man, of quiet and refined
bearing.
One would scarcely class him as
an Adonis, but the frequently mar
ried Mrs. La Forge assures us he
Represents the best of his sex,
picked from a world full of eligible
males, only after careful scrutiny
= and from experience based upon IL
previous unsuccessful ventures.
81 just know we're going to be
happy" she says. Henry has re-
stored my faith in men. But, l
never quite lost it though. Because
you can't judge them all by a few
husbands / mean, Of course"
All of Mrs La FORCES ex-mates
are alive, save the ninth.
Al Had Three Chances.
His name was John Whitney,
whom\ she also divorced before he
died.
AS hubby No. IL, Albert Lilley
was given three chances to make
good, asserts Mrs. La Forge.
Their marriage was annulled
once, and on two subsequent occa-
sions she. divorced him before max
ing up her mind positively, she de-
clares, that he wouldn't do.
5 II thought that was trial enough
she Says.
Sweet Music.
Her marriage to La Forge was
curing separation from Alexander
Yates, hubby No. 10.
u The ink scarcely had time to dry
>on the divorce decree WIN she MUIR
mured a blushing, "ys" to his
,timor will you?"
Having been over the route so
frequently, newspaper reporter S
knew by. heart where the bride-t to-
hes home was, and there assembled
to find her preparing her fourteenth
trousseau.
The chime of wedding bells was
still sweetest music to her ears, she
told them.
And likewise she impressed upon
them the fact that marriage by no
means had lost its appeal to her.
TITS very possible to be happy
though married." she says. "All you
have to do is to find the, right man.
I've tried to for years, and only
now have just succeeded"
Feeds En- Well.
Mr.. La Forge runs a comfortable
boarding house here from which the
fame of her cooking has spread far
and wide.
She has two grown and married
daughters by one of her early mar
riages, and they both join in saying
she's the best mother in the world.
~ "Loye is the big thing in matri-
'mony," the frequent bride solilo-
quizes.
Mere cooking won't hold any
man.
after marriage woman finds
~1Put what her husband really is.
Kindness First.
cts too bad she can't tell before
7 In Mrs, La FORCES opinion, the
most desirable quality in husband
is kindness. Next comes thrift, and
then fidelity. y e
Despite her years Of trouble and
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