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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Clearing Up Long-standing SANDER
R,,N

\ Ess surprise may be oecadonsd TO
- others than was felt by me on
learning the other day that there is
not one word in the Bible to Justify
the statement that the fruit with
which Satan tempted our original
ancestors to their fan, was an apple!
1 had this, b me, amazing bit Of
intelligence from a biblical student
whose knowledge Of the books Of
Genesis Is presumed TO be complete.
But why, then?" I asked, "have
We always attributed that dire eaiam-
NY 30 the attrsctiveness Of an spplei
With an the fruits Of which earth
4 possible, abundant IN that garden
Of Eden, why presume that the WHY
serpent would not have selected one
mere capable Of srousing a sinful
curiosity concerning It's interior, than
any apple could seemingly have
srousedi Why could not more In
tense curiosity have been stimulated
through the pointing out Of a large,
ripe watermeloni-
MELONS BARRED.
~Ah, mo-" said my biblical inform
ant, @it could not have been a melon
because II ie declared to have been
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Women Need
a Mild Laxative
Not a "Physic'

Countless girls and women now
know how foolish and needless it is
TO purge and "pbysic" themselves
to avoid sick headache, dizziness,
biliousness, sallOw skin, colds, or sour
gassN stomach.
They have found that DIR. CALI.
wells Syrup Pepsin helps To establish
natural bowel regularity" even for
those heretofore chronicnlly consli-
pated. DIR. CaldwelPs Syrup Pepsin
not only causes a gentle, easy bowel
movement but, best Of all, it never
gripes, sickens or upsets the most
delicate girl or woman. Besides, II is
absolutely harmless and 50 pleasant
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Our Disappearing Birthplaces
Bv N p RnbcocE .--------------------------

IVES, this Is the house in which be
was born, Says the guide where
upon we, earnest admirers Of the being
to whom he refers, gaze with respect
full awe at the dwelling he points out.
Possibly even a deeper thrill of emo
ton may be ours through being con-
Quoted to the chamber, perhaps to the
very bed on which the birth occurred.
It has always seemed to me that
nothing can more fully establish the
right of an individuals claim to re-
membrance, than the desire Of a sue
ceeding generation to see the house in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

nous man, having been able to make
itself audible above the whirl of ac-
tiyity going on around It Birth sug-
gests to my old-fashioned mind the
word home" and it is impossible,
even with mother and babe, there, to
make hospital fit that word. =
ats a very small matter. some
reader may say, but / deny that any
intimacy connected with the life of
truly great parsonage can be thus dis
missed.
If in course Of time babies are born
nowhere except in hospitals, then
suggest that a careful record of events
be kept after their arrival at what
are really their homes, in order that,
should one become sufficiently famous,
the house may be pointed out after
his death as "thc house in which the
famous Tom Jones cut his first tooth.s
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
How Birds Inherit Nest Habits

OLIVER @. PIKE, 2. z. g. Writ
Ing In an English magazine, de-
eisres that II bird has been reared
In a strange place, when It grows up
and builds nest toY Itself It will en-
deayor 10 find an object TO build in
similar 70 that in which It was reared.
Thousands Of yesu ago." he says,
"a pair Of robins built their nest in
an old pan left outside a camp Of one
u our ancestors. In this curious place
the robins found safety and comfort,
and the descendants Of that first pair
Of enterprisiug birds are now to be
found all over the country, for we now
have a race Of robins that endeavor
to build each year in old tins, pots
or kettles left lying on the rubbish
heaps around country cottages.
twenty-five years ago 1 was wan
dering over q large tract Of single
on the south coast. The sea has been
receding for hundreds Of years and
has left behind a great bed Of stones,
on which many interesting birds breed.
Wei, above high-water mark 1 saw an
old pan. I lifted it and saw under
meath a beautifully built nest Of the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

something back for all those wasted
years.
"Havs you any children
mo, I'm glad to say"
Application for alimony denied"
have consistently refused to gr1st
alimony unless the facts warranted,
1 have reached the conclusion that the
best ends Of justice would be served
il the courts permitted alimony only
when the final decree is signed.
/ truly believe it's slimony, ali
mony, alimony that keeps thousands
of couples from becoming reconciled.
The woman being supported by her
husband under order Of the court
isn't very anxious TO effect a recon-
Citation with him. She is dawdling in
idleness, free, irresponsible; q life Of
song IL hers. And she's. making him
suffer; so she gloats.
From my study Of the court rec
ords / find there are 20 separation
sui1 for every divorce. There is an
ever-increasing tendency for childless
women-tired of their husbands-to
get nd Of them and continue to take
advantage of their helpless mates. IL
the husbands default in 50 much as
a singl. payment Of .alimony, the
wives can have them jailed for con-
tempt Of court. And wives do! Very
ferociously, / might add.
IN THE AIR.
Before me the other day came the
casa ~ fravalin1 saIesrnan He's
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

ment Of the shoaI becomes audible
through a telephone receiver in the
boat
Airplanes used 10 locate shoals Of
fish off the California coast are said
to have increased the catch by 20 per
cent. Trawlers may be called to the
spot by wireless, and announcements
regarding the catch sent ashore by the
same means SO that the market and
the canneries may be prepared.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

is causing breaking down Of ethical
restraint. Men find it financially
cheaper to have mistresses. They are
usually recruited from the ranks of
the alimony wives, by the way.
There are those who are still mar
rying = marrying wife after wife.
They can afford it. The millionaire
gets rid Of wife Number One by toss
ing a small fortune in her lap. He
goes out in the market for Number
Two. Soon she is pensioned off with
an estate in the country-and he's
casting an amorous eye around for
Number Three.
1 heard the other day Of a woman
who Is collecting alimony from two
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

more appropriately have bsen ap-
piled.
Fortunately however, even in this
topsy-turvey world Of ours, continued
injustice toward anything or cause, is
bound, in course of time, to awaken
somewhere a compromising realization
Of hidden merits, and to the libelous
charge that an apple one day drew
the devil its way, has now been add
ed the more complimentary assertion
that IAN Apple Each Day Keeps the
Doctor Away" Which may or may
not be true, but which at least seems
30 Be seeking TO make amend for
the harmful part attributed to the
apple in the Garden Of Eden.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

that any one Of them ever @turned
to ashes" except at the hands Of some
careless housewife.
ANATOMICAL SANDER.
Worst Of all slanderous thruts at
tn. apple is the fact Of its name hav-
ing been bestowed upon what prob
ably Is the least attractive feature Of
mans visible anatomy. do not know
who first gave the name Of Adams
Apple" TO that lump Of flesh which
can be felt, and, also too often seen,
working about in q mans throat az
though in attempt to uproot his
shirt stud, but IL would seem to me
that the word lemon" could much
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Wives Are Graers! Says Disguised Supreme Court Judge
No Woman With Respect For Herself
Would Accept Alimony in the
First Place." He Believes.

is living apart from her husband, her
aunt, who is living apart from her
husband; two sisters, who are living
apart from their husbands; and two
boarders.'
This young husband attempted to
live with his wife. He was an earnest
young man and hoped to hold her.
Because of the drinking and carousing
he was forced to say to her:
"We must go away. This is no place
for you, as my wife, Your family is a
bad influence. They're all living off
alimony and idling and getting into
trouble.
THAT'S just what / want to 10
too,' she retorted.
She didn't get the alimony. I ex-
pect the idleness and trouble are here
today without asking. Why should
she get his money? / ordered him
to pay SIS week for the baby. No
ailmony or csunsel fees were allowed
her. l didn't want to increase, you
see, the horde of wives who fritter
around on alimony for which they
give nothing in return. They are not
much better than parasites.
GETS LONESOME.
Parasite" did l say? Here is
what often happens. With nothing TO
do, sufficient money to maintain an
apartment, the alimony wife gets lone
some and restless, in few months.
She goes out with other men.
And then we have another reason,
moral one, why alimony should be
abolished.
The divorce-nnd- alimony epidemic
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

cases where wives are healthy. child
less, able-bodied and capable Of sup
porting themselves, there was 4 ma
tion-wide uproar. Lawyers specialize
ing In obtaining slimony for sehem-
ing wives denounced me, as did wom-
en- from the clubs. But editorially,
from coast to ocast, the newspapers
upheld my views. Editors see the
menace 70 our domestic institution if
this alimony scandal is allowed TO go
on.
A wife applied 70 me for separs-
tion. asking slimony. She was an in
terror decorator doing 4 very salts
factory business IN Brooklyn.
learned that she made more than her
husband.
HER VIEWPOINT.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
By " p BabcOck

is all in the interest Of advancing civ
ilization.
But really, you know, il I lived
that long, 1 couldn't feel the same
thrill when guide pointed to some
one Of the vast hospitals that adorn
our cities, as the birthplace of a
chosen hero, that might be felt on
looking at the hovel in which Abra-
ham Lincoln WINS born, or even at the
little cottage out on Long Island
where the author of "Home, Sweet
Home" first saw the light.
TOO MUCH OF FACTORY.
These hospitals suggest too much Of
factory and Of factory output to
enable me mentally to grasp concep-
ton of any individual infant having
been turned out" there. One can
hardly conceive of the first faint bleat
Of the tiny thing that because ia
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

vengeful, weeping grimly
smiling husbands and wives
mostly wives. Hundreds of
couples have brought to me
their unhappy home life, the
hurt Of their very souls.
From my point of vantage On the
bench. / hsFe come 10 the eonclu-
sion in all misunderstanding with
the humility OF q man who deeply
respects womanhood and who Is the
hsppiest Of husbends-thst too many
wives today have turned into
Parasites
Liars
Cheats
Intriguers ~
Money srsbbeu
Contributors 10 immortality.
And the men are powerless 10 step
what's happening. They haven't a
thing to say about it. II they rebel,
they're clapped into the "Alimony
Club" in some county jail.
1t would not be seemly for me, a
Supreme Court justice, 10 criticize our
laws. Ny duty is TO interpret them.
But win say that only In American
courts today are money payments
awarded for lost love"
MISUNDERSTANDING"
The whole business Of alimony grub
bing is degrading. 1t cbeapens the re-
lations between men and women. A
new understanding in the interests of
fairness and decency must come. In
Cosmopolitan, the most courageous
ana gazine i know, herewith offer
myself as a pioneer in the new order.
What you read now may bring the
wrath Of the gods-and what's worse,
the women's clubs-upon my head
But I have a multitude Of facts and
cases. believe that ] am in the right
and that you, the American public,
viii some day agree by q revision Of
the statutes relating to marriage and
divorce.
When ! announced recently that /
would refuse to grant alimony in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

former husbands and is preparing to
divorce a third.
There is another moral aspect to
this alimony evil. 1t encourages i'm
morality by both hrsband and wife.
She won't divorce FINISHES too con-
tent, thank you, with a separation
allowance! And thus both may not
remarry. Only too often both of them
find unofficial escorts into forbidden
paths. .
1T ISN'T HONORABLE.'
On the other hand, divorces as a
whole are conducive to morality. I
favor them for this reason.
The facts do not justify alimony in
10 per cent of the cases, but the.
judges are allowed so little discretion,
at least in New York state, that they
are required by law to grant alimony
in so per cent of the cases. 3
Marriage is a partnership. The
woman, however, can lie down on the
job, loaf, disturb the partnership with
sabotage and /. W. w. tactics; nag,
and walk out. Yet the husband must
keep on paying over her share in the
business. 1 say that isn't honor
able.
i submit M able-bodied woman with
self-respcct should demand alimony.
And that is the troubled Women
are losing their self-respect. Our
marriage system makes them. Par-
ents show less concern in marrying
off their daughters than stock rails
ers do in breeding cattle. Only roo
soon comes disillusionment-an ths
divorce lawyer.
>oUe HoNoa. q IANT
nv
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Our Marriage Laws Are Making
Parasites, Cheats, Liars and
Intriguers," His Verdict.

4rs svives srdftsf IN the oeeowbanyins aes REPRINTED
from Cosmotolan Magazine for APr this question: onsseed
sding fashion BY Judge Sedh B. Strong of the Nsr York
Supreme Court wkose expnenees the dVorcs bench bcI va
hin deep insight irto modern marital troubles ,g:
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

poration began developing near his
yard. His business grew overnight. To
day, she hears, he is making $685.
a year. And she wants her share. She
wants her alimony increased.
"What for?" 1 asked her. "You are
not living with him, are your"
. "Oh, no, your honor, but
you're not contributing to his sue
cess" went on. You're not stimu-
lating him, listening to his confidence,
keeping house for him?"
She stared mt me, astonished.
why should you get more ali
mony?" I asked her. "Since he left
you, it is true, he has prospered.
Nevertheless, he's done it in spite of
you-not because Of you. Application
denied"
These alimonJ wives! Here is one,
aged %, brunette Of considerable ami
nation. Her husband, an insurance
salesman, she charged with inhuman
treatment and addiction to drink. This
was denied by the husband and sup
ported by affidavits from his employer
and two previous employers. They had
one child, eight months old.
FAMILY TO BLAME.
The papers showed the wife decided
to have her own way. They showed
that the husband had taken her back
three or four times, after she left him
to live in q six-room flat.
In that fat lived her mother, who
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
By JUDGE SELAH B. STRONG
OF the Supreme Court Of New YORK

URS grafters age. And the biggest of grafters
! today wives. The easiest graft in the United
- States these days is marriage.
see the marital parade from a revealing emnence.
have listened day after day battaons of angry,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

that even cross, feyerish, bilious
sick child gladly takes il.
Buy a large G0-cent bottle at any
store that sells medicine and just see
for yourself.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

These, then are my reasons for cp,
posing the granting Of alimony, ex.
cept when there are children, or tbs
wives are middle-aged and economics
ally helpless.
In such instances, it is the duty
Of the husbands to care for them
and / see that they do it.
But
No alimony for the gold-dig-
gers!
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Now IT'S HOSPITAL.

w" II . ffOSfIlAI.
There are thoughts that have been
forced upon me By a recently acquired,
though entirely unsought, knowledge of
the change that has so largely occur
red in the selection, by maternity, of
sites for the bringing of possible can.
didates for Fame into existence.
Upon this subject 1 should, a few
years ago, have felt a hesitancy to
speak, but bless your soul, one may
today talk as freely about obstetrics
as about obsequies. Nor need the
remarks be addressed only to adult
ears. The stork is now only a short
way behind old Santa Claus in their
flight away from juvenile belief.
I don't say that this is an unde-
sirable state Of affairs; at all events
it emboldens me to ask, If a woman
is not prenatally robbing her child OF
some token of its future greatness
when she goes to a hospital for the
purpose of giving birth to Il there.
ADVANCE OF SCIENCE.
OF course the doctors are in favor
Of this method. 1t is easier for them
and more sanitary in most cases for
the woman, they declare. The old
is falling into unpopuIarity,
/ am told. In Imagination / seem to
see her and the country.doctor jog
ging along in a chaise, while just be-
hind, around a turn in the road,
comes a huge automobile at enormous
speed. Crash Bangl All, well, IL
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

Vheatsar, containing four pale blu.
eggs.
II was on this beach again three
years ago and saw several rusty pans
lying inverted on the stones. All
were occupied By whestears, showing
that the young Of the first pair, and
also their young, had done their best
to carry out the traditions Of the
family.
But some birds must be sorely
troubled In searching for their nesting
site. For instance, I knew q pair
Of wrens to build their nest inside the
skull Of horse. The young reared
here would indeed be stumped TO find
a similar site in which to build for
themselves, but as a rule these birds
will not choose another place until
they quite fail in their quest, and
even then will select the nearest TO
pattern they can find"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
FAMILY TO BLAME.

which be, or she, was born. We may
often have felt a sort Of spiritual con-
tact with such a one while reading
words written or spoken, or listening
to music created by that individual
during life, but the sight of the spot
where future greatness came into ex-
istence, may awaken a reverence not
before experienced.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18

been paying allmony for five years.
Awaiting trial for his wife's suit for
separation! She has not pressed the
case. Why should she? She's living
off him in grand style. 1t is legalizei
slavery.
Here Is a letter from a manu-
facturer, typical Of many in my files:
your Honor:
Several years ago / had 4 bust.
ness, a car and a chauffeur and
highly paid office staff. have lost
my business. / have borrowed from
my friends until have exhausted my
credit in an effort to keep. up my
alimony payments.
I owe considerable money, but my
meanest creditor has not undertaken
to throw me into Jail, as my wife did.
Now I am in arrears again and she
wants to have me locked up. She
has said she would rather have me in
Jail than have the money. Unless you
can do something for me, may spend
the rast of nv life in iail
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
THESE ALIMONY WIVES"

Even after a wife has lived in idle
ness for several years, loafing on her
alimony, she's not satisfied One wom-
an rushed into my court with her law
yer only the other day.
When they separated her husband
was making 500 a week in the lum-
Der business. She obtained $40 week
alimony. But a big real estate cor
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
1 \ APPARATUS in the nature o

a y APPARATUS in the nature Of
I a telephone is now used By the
hSrring fishermen at Stranger, Nor
Fd y, to locate shoals of fish. A micro
n ns is attached to a sunken wire
n ], or 80 it is declared, the move
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
IN THE AIR.

Before me the other day came the
case Of q travelling salesman. He's
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
HER VIEWPOINT.

why do you ask slimOnyy' / I not hi
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-03
ISSUE
FINAL APPEAL

An eleventh-hour appeal to
Washingtonians to send in their
contributions at once to the Asso-
ciated Charities is being made to.
day by the Easter campaign fund
committee, which finds it still is
short, on the closing day of the
drive, $19,500 of the total of $50 900
sought.
The committee held a special
meeting yesterday, and it was de-
cided to issue the special appeal in
the hope that eleventh-hour con-
tributtons on the eve of Easter
might go long way toward max
ing up the $4,000 sought.
The total number of contributors
has been $500, only a little more
than a third of the 10000 set as a
goal at the beginning of the cam.
paign.
Reports at yesterdays meeting
were cited today as indicative of
the growth of the work of the or
ganization. More than 500 families
were aided last month, as against
408 in March, 1925 The number
of contributors to the Easter drive
this year, however, has been con-
siderably smaller than the number
last year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-03
OPERATION On
ROAD Vain

INDIANAPOLIS April "a
roadside operation in which Major
H. K. B. Hufford, Army surgeon,
made an incision in the neck OF
Georgia Drakeford, 11-year-old blind
girl, grasped the end of her pre-.
viously severed jugular vein with
his fingers and held it while, she
was rushed TO the Fort Benjamin
Harrison Hospital proved early to-
day to have been in vain.
The girl died a few hours after
she reached the hospital from loss
of blood before the surgeons arr
val.
The sightless child's throat was
cut by a jagged piece of glass when
the automobile in which she was
riding with her father collided with
a heavy truck between Indianapolis
and Fort Harrison.
Major Hufford. passing in his
machine, quickly took in the situa-
ton and performed the operation,
which if he had arrived few min
utes earlier, would have saved the
child's life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-04-03
HOPES FOR DEBT
PACT AIDE

Administration hopes for early
ratification Of the $2,O42 900 900
Italian debt settlement began to
fade today
The motion to recommit the pact
to the Senate Finance Committee is
gathering strength
This move, which would prevent
further action for year, was based
on q demand for additional in
formation relating to Italy'e
capacity to pay. IT was initiated
by Senator Robinson tDem.l OF
Arkansas. minority floor leader, but
heartily endorsed by the old "Irrec.
onciliable" group, whose leaders
predicted today that they would
muster sufficient votes to recommit
the settlement.
The settlement, at any rate. viii
be sidetracked Monday to permit
senatorial elaboration of the Brook
hart -Steck election contest. This
case. one of the highest privilege,
probably will occupy the Senate
for the better part Of next week
and the delay was not expected To
help the Administrations chances
for q quick decision on the debt
pact.
According to Senator Howell
CRep.) OF Nebraska, The pact would
give the United States an. average
of $39, 900, 900 a year. which would
amount to interest payments at the
rate Of 1.8 per cent on the full debt.
While Italy is paying us interest
at the rate OF 1.S per cent for
81 years, she never repays US a
cent of the principal" said Howell
This means that at the end /7of G..
years we cancel the debt itself.
Meanwhile, the United States will
be paying out interest on its Liberty
bonds at the rate OF AZ per cent,
thus causing the Government to
lose money every year while never
getting a cent of the original debt
back"