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

of the bank for him to fritter away with
his silly investments. When / refused he
beat me-and | divorced him. Was this
unreasonable on my part?
"And now as to Albert Lilley, whom |
have had, on and off, for husband three
different times. Albert was an extremely
nice, neat chap, and industrious, and |
married him few months after my
divorce from Mr.. Porter. But Porter
seemed to be vindctive and he threatened
to prosecute us under a law, which for
bids a divorced person from marrying
within a year after the divorce. So, to
escape difficulties, Mr.. Lilley and | made
haste and had our marriage annulled.
which seemed to suit Porter. We drifted
apart and Lilley moved away. and in his
absence | met and married William Swan
son. If Mr.. Lilley had been near at hand
when our year was up would have mar
ried him over again, but since Swanson
was on hand, and Lilley was away, de-
cided to take chances with Swanson.
"But Swanson drank, and within five
months became very unkind to me, and
began to stay out at night. | stood it a
few months and then the divorce courts
ended this matrimonial venture. About
this time Albert Lilley came back to ST.
Louis and we were promptly remarked.
But he took to drinking and it was i'm
possible to get along with him, so
divorced him.
"But loved Lilley, and at times he was
a very delightful companion, and we were
extremely happy together. | missed him
and he missed me, and we decided to be
married again-married for the third
time. We both thought that there might
be luck in odd numbers We gave up
our home and the rooming houses owned
in the city and moved out into the
suburbs, where we could enjoy a real love
in a cottage existence and live for each
other alone.
But Albert seemed to change in his
ways and began to be irritable. | loved
him and was determined that we should
have happiness. When he was in a
petulant or angry frame of mind would
grab him and kiss him again and again.
In his irritable moods | would pet him
and say, Now Albert, we can't get mad at
each other. Remember we love each other.
We must cut out this foolishness We
don't want any more fights, any more
separations See, am giving you kiss;
kiss me, Albert
But it didn't work His i'll nature
seemed to increase, and one day, when /
grabbed him and tried to smother lir
Ill. ,,,,tl I
struck me and blackened my eyes; and
with those blackened eyes and a painful
limp | went to the divorce court and was
freed from Albert Lilley for the third and
last time. do not expect to ever marry
him again.
"But my experience with Mr.. Lilley and
all the rest did not entirely shake my
faith in men. Somewhere and some day
| felt | should meet the right man at last.
And so, when Alexander Yates came into
my life on June last, we were married.
But in little more than three months we
separated. Other women was the reason,
and the other day obtained my twelfth
divorce degree, setting me free from Mr..
Yates.
Her Thirteenth Husband.
"And now l am Mrs. Henry LaForge.
hs HdllldS SSslSiudy 10 my tHlIleeHtH
marriage, and, in the case of Albert
Liley, | made three unsuccessful tries
with one husband" she said the day after
she married LaForge.
wasn't your marriage to Mr.. LaForge,
only a week after your divorce from Mr..
Yates, rather hasty?" the writer asked
"Why delay?" inquired the much-mar-
ried Cora. 81 am no longer as young as
! used to be. | have been thirty years
trying on and taking off misfit husbands.
| shall not live forever, and if | am to
finally find the one man with whom | can
be permanently happy, it behooves me to
do so without delay.
"If Henry LaForge is, at last, the right
man, then why miss even a day of the
happiness which is to be mine for the rest
of my life? And if Henry LaForge is
simply one more of the matrimonial mis-
fits which | must try on before find the
perfect fit-then how much better to
marry Henry, try him out and get done
with him if he is not the right man."
Mrs. LaForge's logical reasoning seemed
quite unanswerable, and as the writer rose
to go he sadie "What do you consider
happiness in the average American
home?"
"Well," replied the much-married and
widely experienced bride, linen who have
no serious purpose in life and will not
work, wreck half of the homes; and silly
wives, who pet their husbands until they
nauseate them, wreck the other half of the
homes"
And now that Henry LaForge has been
put into the discard with all the rest the
reader will naturally wonder how long il