San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-25

Nv Smith-Barnes-B Butcher Crow Whit
ney Porter -Lilley-Swanson-Lill
LilleyYates walked out of the st. Louis
Divorce Court few months ago. she had
married and divorced twelve men, and in
less than week she had been led to the
altar by Mr.. Henry LaForge, her thirteenth
matrimonial venture-and now she is pre-
pairing to divorce Mr.. LaForge.
1t may seem to many worthy maidens
throughout the country, who have never
been led to the altar even once, that it
was hardly fair for Miss Cora Walker to
start in at the age of fourteen and corner
so much of the matrimonial market. She
is now only forty-four years old, and yet
she has had thirteen times the best of
them. She has always been in demand as
wife.
Why do men marry Cora? was a ques-
ton which naturally occurred to the
writer, and he asked the much-married
Cora that very question.
"Oh, don't know" replied Mrs. La
Forge, modestly. "Men tell me that they
like me and think, myself. Nature in
tended me TO pc wire.
"But how do you account for it that
you have had so many matrimonial OPP
portunities, while many women have never
had even one PROPOSAL"
"Of course have thought about that
myself" replied Mrs. LaForge. GAS ]
observe my old-maid friends, l. can see
that many of them are really not fitted
for domestic life. Surely some women
have personalities and peculiarities which,
from my experience with men, | can
readily see would not attract nor hold
a husband.
"Of course | have won but have lost
a good many husbands. But in every
instance | think it is perfectly fair to say
that the fault was not mine. You will ex-
pect me to say this, but listen and judge
for yourself. If husband begins bring
ing home things which you are perfectly
sure he has no right to have, would you
consider it wife's fault if she sought a
divorce? No self-respecting woman can
live with a thief My second husband
turned out to be thief.
"Would you say that you loved each
of your various husbands with equal
affection?"
NO." replied Mrs. LaForge. 81 doubt
if any woman loves two or more successive
husbands with quite the same degree of
love- Of all the men | married | loved
Albert Lilley the most. He was a very
attractive man and won my heart so COM
pletely that | married and remarked and
married him again-three times | married
Albert Lilley.
Rough and Gentle Lovers.
"Men differ greatly in their appeal to
woman" Mrs. LaForge said in a
reminiscent way, as her eyes wandered
out the window and tender recollections
flowed through her head. "There is some
thing to be said for what is called the
'cave-man lover He is rough, impetuous,
insstent, domineering-an yet there is
happiness in surrendering to the ire
sistibe force of a cave-man lover. You
may feel bit out of sorts, or as if you
would like to be left alone, and yet when
the cave-man husband seizes you, even
bit roughly, in his arms, you yield with
pleasant satisfaction.
"And so it is" the much-married Cora
continued, with the rather gentle, diff
fdent husband. While you miss his force
of character and dominant will, yet you
have sympathy for the quiet, considerable
sort of lover who is not self-aSSertive.
His appealing look, rather than his violent
intensity, mets you and it is pleasant to
give yourself into the arms of such hus-
band.
"After all, matrimony is a lottery, as
has been very truly said. Men are on
their best behavior when they are court.
ing woman. Men are great actors,
great deceivers. During the courtship
DAYS a lover will show deyout and pious
manner and eagerly go to church with
YOU, if he sees that you are of a religious
disposition. And as soon as you are mar.
ried, you will find that nothing short of a
regiment of soldiers can possibly pull him
out of the house on Sunday to go to
church. During courtship a man will
fondle your little nieces and nephews and
talk longingly of the little ones he hopes
will come to bless our home. And, as soon
as the wedding ceremony is over, he is
quite likely to talk about noisy little brats
and surprise you by revealing the fact