The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-03-26
A. G.. Blasting, Mechanic,
Granted Divorce from
Artist Wife.
BORN TO THE PURPLE
Husband Claims Wife Thought
She Was Too God for Him
and Preferred Friends.

Archibald Glenwood Blasting, Mil
waukee man, who was granted a di-
vorce in the municipal court of Keno
sha county on Thursday afternoon, adj
mitted that he was no artist; his wife
Betty was the artist in his family. He
was just plain mechanic.
But Archibald, artist or no artist,
painted before the court a word pict-
ure of his wife which easily won him
decree of divorce, on the charge of
cruel end inhuman treatment.
Betty, according to the husbands
complaint, was nagging, spendthrift
wife, who preferred her bohemian
artist friends to his companionship
and who repeatedly kept before him
the fact that "she was of a higher
social strata"
She was not there to contest the
divorce. Judge Slater after hearing
the evidence handed down decree
granting the husband a divorce and
returning to the wife her maiden name
of Betty Harris. No alimony was sought
by the wife and none was granted.
Was a Nagging Wife.
In his complaint the husband charg-
ed that the wife had persistently
nagged him, his attorney going to high
rhetorical flights in describing their
domestic troubles. "She has constantly
nagged him. stated the complaint,
telling him that she, belonged to- a
higher social strata and continuing to
inform and advise him thus until life
with the defendant due to the never
ending nagging and cursing had be-
come as the Hour of Gethsamane'."
1t also alleged that the wife "con-
stantly demanded that the husband
spen devery penny he could possibly
earn for the purchase of silk lingerie
fit for queen and wholly beyond the
requirements of a man situated in
their social scale, and that as a result
of the never ending passion of the
defendant for the expanding of enorm-
Gus sums of money for feminine wear
that the plaintiff has naught to show
as worldly goods after these years
of married life
Was to the Manor Born.
That the wife considered that she
was to the manor born was also
claimed in the complaint "She con-
sidered herself born to the purple, y
the complaint continues and alleged
that this urea caused much pickering
and dissension because she refused
to associate with mis- relatives and
friends.
"She sought the companionship of
those commonly known as "Bohe-
mians those that hang on the social
fringe of society and pose as artists,
the complaint stated. 'Their art
gable was the cause of much of the
nagging."
The complaint admits that the wife
had gone out to make her own living
as an artist, but claims that she did
this because she would not assume the
duties of a household. They were mar
ried September 20, 1920 in Milwaukee;
there were no children.
Wife Sends a Letter.
While the wife was not in court to
letter to Divorce Council A. B. Ames,
part of which read as follows:
I'm reply, l would state that the
sooner 1 am free from my hueband
the happier l will be. We cannot get
along, in fact never have gotten along
with each other"
81 do not care to see or to hear
from my husband any more, for while
| respect the fact that he has a right
to his view and pleasure in life, they
do not correspond with mine and l am
tired of trying to make them do so.'
81 do not intend to go on pretend
ing as we have, for it has become
unbearable. We have no interests in
common. We do not help, but hinder
each other in every way. l have my
work which interests me pleasantly
and financially and prefer doing the
best can and going about my own
business in this way"