PROPOSED TEMPLE OF ALIMONY
TO MEET NEEDS Of THE DIVORCED
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One of these days some American
futurist will put In black and white a
conception of that
great American in
dustry, divorce.
It will be a fear
ful thing—a rep
tilian mammoth,
hydra-headed, of
course, with pink
eyes; horned,
fanged, bat-eared,
whiskered, ser
pent-tongued, with
dozens of snaky
tentacles ending in sharp, claws. And
It will have an inscrutable Mona Lisa
smile, predicts Kate Masterson in the
New York Sunday World.
Hesido it the octopus will appear as
harmless as a household pet and as
Innocent as a primer illustration. It
will be part lchthysaurus with Just a
strain of ornithlonites giganteus. And
Its real kennel name will bo nine-syl
labled, ending with a sneeze.
Like the Inse-rutable smile, translat
ed, it will mean: "Am 1 so terrible
after all? Isn’t there a big interro
gation point, in Hie minds of all think
ing persons as to whether I don't fill
my place in the big scheme?”
Of course there are always the com
mandments to confront us when we
feel progressive nnd brond-minded.
But these aro the days of eugenics and
home-mado marriage services and no
marriages at all in somo homes—
mostly bungalows.
One hesitates to ihink what things
might be If, for instance, there were
no divorce. It used to be a disgrace
In the old times—but many things
wore disgraceful in the old days—suf
frage, for Instance. Suffragists and
divorcee® are found in the best fami
lies nowadays.
, There is a certain chic about it for
a woman. It is almost as good as
being a real widow.
Resides that you will note, like neu
rasthenia and paranoia, common per
sons never have it. They can’t afford
It. It. doesn’t thrive in tlie tenement
districts. Hut when you get to the
elevator apart incuts where there are
colony, with delightful hotels, bridge,
drives, boating, bathing and fishing.
Here life moves to music while one
waits for the papers. The social life
is charming. Jones sojourning while
ho sheds Mrs. J.—whom he married
through a misunderstanding—meets
j Mrs. Smith, who is severing her home
] ties. Both expect to be bored to ex
| tinctlon. They meet and find that life
' has only Just begun for them. They
go back east, married.
A genius for statistics has figured
out the amount of mowny that changes
hands In thl« way and suggests tne
establishment of an alimony bank.
Here the tremendous divorce plant
j could bn centralized. The payments
j and disbursements of moneys could be
| transacted. The scheme stretches out
in endless vistas.
Divorced persons are often singu
larly sensitive about their troubles.
They need careful handling. The ali
mony bank could make sympathy and
delicacy the rule with Its clients. Em
ployes might be chosen who had them
r
Sir Galahad Is Unknown at the Ladies’
Clubs Today.
selves been through the process and
would know, therefore, all the little
points of importance.
Reads Like Ideal Plan.
There would be no mixups. Alimony
getters and alimony payers would
have difforent departments and en
trances. A cheerful atmosphere would
be cultivated. There would be no
hard feelings or criticisms or gossip.
There might be afternoon tea.
And as in so many cases the di
vorced make up their differences and
marry again there could be a regular
chaplain who would retie the knot
quietly, cut the service and omit alt
unnecessary swank and show.
The timid ex-wife going to draw her
first payment would be met at the
entrance doorway by an usher in
smart uniform who would take her up
in a plush lined elevator to the proper
otlice and window. If she didn't like
checks she could get antiseptlcally
sprayed and gennless money.
Naturally embarrassed and con
fused. she would be offered tea and
cakes and then politely shown out of
a secret door opening on another
street* For, as some one once said,
it is nothing to be seen going any
place, it is to bo seen coming out
that counts.
For, of course, divorce Is not yet
quite respectable. That is one of the
charming things about it. That is
what made lteno such a pleasant place
to stop—far pleasanter, for instance,
than Chautauqua or the East Aurora
farm. Culture isn't everything.
Many Possibilities In Idea.
The concentration and localization
of divorce in this Temple of Alimony
would rob it of many of its terrors.
It would give it a cachet. Remember
what a dreadful sort of trade pawn
broking used to be. And now look
. ■ a . _J _ J I — 1U»1» LUr.
Divorce is one of the Giant Commer
cial Growths of the Age.
two or three baths to a flat and maids
leashed to dogs, there it flourishes like
• bay tree.
Not Always So Common.
Our groat-grandmothers and fathers
did without it to a great extent and
•went on cheerfully throwing the china
at each other till death did them part.
Sex questions were ignored. Now
they teach the answers in the schools.
There are no more of the scorching
love affairs or the blistering letters
except In the police news.
It is woman that has changed, of
course. Sir Galahad is not much
heard of at the ladies' clubs. He be
longed to a time when they used to
have stereopticon views and a cham
ber of horrors called a Family Album
: ill II no it m \,tu i i^vi uu *» m.w
marble buildings resembling Carnegie
libraries or Turkish baths, with rows
of motors at the door.
The Idea teems with possibilities
and there Isn’t the shadow of a doubt
that what to the thoughtless reader
may seem a Jest will be one of the
realities of the future. For there is no
stamping It out. Divorce Is growing
1 —■* « . -
Divorce Doesn't Thrive In the Tene
ment District.
and, while laws may be made which
will restrict it and make it more diffi
cult, men and women wiirt wrench the
bonds asunder when they find them
troublesome.
As It stands at present it must al
ways be a wrench and a wrangle. Law
yers control it now and make it as
elaborate as possible. The more fuss
there Is about litigation the higher
I the price.
The Temple of Alimony would have
to secure a high priest—one of those
terribly bald men with eyeglasses
whose name has never been touched
by the breath of scandal. This le al
ways a wise move when running any
thing at which the linger of scorn is
likely to point.
The Amalgamated Alimony Amelio
rative association would have to have
one of these Who's Whos. And to
stun reporters. Investigators or rnuck
| rakers there should be a chaste wait
j lug room with plush rugs for the
I weary feet of th® alimonyettes to
: tread upon.
Literature of Right Order.
Also a heavy, oblong. Important
loqkiug table with impressive legB.
Ull UIC umi uir-twpj'ru jinuui uumu.
These made up the Joy of life.
Men and women respected each
other and there was less comradeship
between them in marriage and out of
It than now. And divorce was not
considered at all nice.
Show girls didn't run oft with col
lege boyB and enter into the holy
bonds on a dare, for tt wasn't so easy
to escape and win on the almony ques
tion when the honeymoon was over.
This was back in the eighteen-fifties.
But with the early sixties divorce
began to boom. They started to keep
track of them. There were about ten
thousand a year. Now there are ninety
thousand.
It Is one of the giant commercial
growths of the age. It wraps up mil
lions of dollars in Us claws. It gives
occupation to thousands—lawyers,
clerks, typists, all busy In the big mill.
It occupies blocks of office buildings.
II uses tons of stamps, stationery,
pens. Ink, copying machines. It con
sumes fortunes in telegraph and tele
phone tolls.
It keeps gangs of hard-working pri
vate detectives busy day and night
getting blue prints to back up their
statements, it rides in taxicabs and
stops at hotels invariably named after
the saints. Divorce evidence obtained
under an eegle's wing seems to carry
I weight with a jury.
Has Tried Many Residences.
Divorce flitted about for a while
looking for a suitable residence. It
tried Rhode Island—It planted itself
j on the rock where the Pilgrim Fathers
discovered the first clambake—then
swished off to Dakota. It even visited
blue-biddled Philadelphia.
Then It planted Itself in the health
i ful climate of Reno, where it has built
us a flourishing, fashionable cottage
Sh' '* •' ’ »*
—
STATISTICS OF DIVORCE
In 1867 there wai an average
of 27 divorce* in every 100,000
of population.
In 1907 the divorce* numbered
72,062, the estimated increase*
In five years periods being 30
per cent.
New York furnishes only 20
divorce to every 100,000 of pop
ulation.
About 9.000 men In New York
are paying alimony.
Figuring $35 a month as a fair
average, the total alimony pay
ments a year In New York reach
$3,780,000.
And on this In neat rows some of the
more serious magazines. The litera
ture of the temple of alimony would
be one of the most Important Items,
It should by all means Include a
Book of Divorce Etiquette. Francis
Crowninshleld could get one up splen
didly. He did that Rules for Dinner
Conversation—a book that no one who
pretends to be anyone can afford to be
without.
You may recall the beginning page.
To start conversation gracefully with
a dinner neighbor who may_ be un
known to you, take up your roll and
ask smilingly' "Is this my bread or
yours?"
IT evor a manual of this sort was
needed badly It Is In this matter of
divorce.
Because everything Is at present so
crudely ordered In regard to the mat
ter no one knows what to do. If two
divorced people were to meet and
shake hands In friendly fashion, or
even appear decently civil to each oth
er, they would be talked about.
As a general thing they are so happy
over the separation that they have
only the most grateful feelings for
each other. The one matter that seems
to' create dissension—and this also
should be arranged by some decisive,
just set of rules—is the division of the
worldly goods—the wedding presents,
*1. „
kUVI {ItUlVV,
Proper Division a Requisite.
Who gets the canary? Which is to
have faithful Fido? It is all right for
Annabel to take the pearls that Alfred
has given her—the toilet ivory—but it
would seem as thougli she might leave
him the silver cigarette box which his
beet man gave him.
If half the Annabels and the Alfreds
could bo separated on probation, as
some of the judiciaries are now doing,
they would make up their rows. Any
number of couples would fall on each
other’s necks and go out of the court
room weeping tears of joy.
Nerve fagged, tired men who feel
that their wives dislike them; neu
rotic, novel-fed women who think he
doesn’t love them any more, rush 'nto
divorce without in the least meaning
to do so.
The Temple of Alimony might help
them to make up their minds. Not
every indignant wife is as sure of her
Our Grandparents Were Content With
Throwing 'Round the Family China.
exact requirements as the colored lady
who appeared in a southern court to
complain that her husband was unduly
attentive to other ladies of his ac
quaintance.
She recounted some of his offenses.
“I see,’’ said the judge sympathetical
ly; “I suppose, then, madam, that you
wish to obtain a divorce?”
“Divawse”—protested the lady.
“Judge, do yuh think I want to di
vawse the handsomest nlggah in Caro
lina and let him marry one of them
coons? Oh, no, judge, what I want—
is an injunction!"
SHOW PICTURE OF THE DEAD
Tombstones In New England Ceme
tery Are Furnished With Some
what Unique Decoration.
Many means have been used for
marking the resting place of the dead,
or In ornamentation of their graves,
from the ornate tombs of marble and
granite to the grotesque totem poles
of the American Indians. The French,
who are noted for their fine taste in
decoration and their discrimination in
art matters, disfigure their marble
tombs with hideous wreaths of Jet or
purple glass beads. But it has re
mained for a little cemetery in New
England to set a new fashion in a
means of commemorating the dead.
A hole is chiseled into the slab or
monument and into this is fitted a pic
ture of the one whose grave is be
neath. The portrait is generally a
photograph or tintype. A cover which
can easily be lifted up is then placed
over the opening. Anyone passing
through the cemetery and wishing to
know how the person before whose
tombstone he has halted appeared In
life has only to raise the little cover
over the picture to satisfy his curi
osity.
This is by no meane a new custom
in this town. It began many years
ago. On one of the monuments is a
photograph placed there in 1865, which
Is as clean as though it had been put
there a year ago.
Though this custom of having tomb
stones made to hold portraits origi
nated in this particular place, it Is
now being adopted in neighboring
towns.—Harper's Weekly.
Brazil’s Black Diamonds.
Black Diamonds come from the prov
ince of Bahia, Brazil. Twenty thou
sand dollars waa paid for the finest
specimen known.
Thar mind and soul, according well.
Make qno music as before.
Gut vaster.
DIET FOR THE AGED.
To live long and to remain well and
active is the object of every normal
man or woman. As old age comes on,
nature loses the Inclination for exer
cise, but unfortunately she does not
deprive us of the desire to eat. Our
eating should adapt itself to our ac
tivities, and thus by absteminous liv
ing we could do away with many of
the diseases subject to old age. From
twenty to forty the vital organs are
young and respond to demands with
out apparent difficulty, but at sixty
the stomach and liver are beginning
to resent over work, the exercise, life
In the open air and work of earlier
years are missed and the body feels
the strain.
The result of over eating develops
fat and superfluous material, which
clogs the system and chokes the vital
organs, and we find ou#%elves with
rheumatism, gout, indigestion, hard
ening of the arteries and various oth
er serious troubles. Tissue building
foods should be partaken of sparingly,
as their need is past, though for va
riety it is well to keep them in the
diet. Meat should be eaten but once
a day.
The aged who are troubled with too
much avoirdupois should cut out fats
largely, not eating many root vegeta
bles and scarcely any sweets.
A good diet for seventy or seventy
five should be made up of vegetables,
fruit, some fleh, eggs, a little meat
and simple cereals. Two quarts of
water or muin siiuuiu ue lantm catu
day between meals. The water Is
needed to flash the system and avoid
friction, besides that which is needed
in the tissues and blood.
Stilnulants, such as tea and coffee,
should not be strong.
For the aged, it is better to eat
often and lightly. Exercise in the
open air is as necessary at seventy as
it is at seven.
Those who exercise a great deal can
eat and assimilate more food than
the less active. If one has reached
the age of sixty with no disease shad
owing him, he should by right living
show his gratitude and not become in
dolent and invite disaster.
I'll be denyln' that wlmmin are foolish.
God Almighty made ’em to match the
men. —George Eliot.
Our best light must be made life, and
our best thought, action. —5. Smiles.
WAYS OF SERVING CURRANTS.
While Currants are plentiful it is
well to prepare some of the good con
serve and spiced currants.
Currant Conserve.—Cook five
pounds of currants isntil tender, add
two pounds of chopped seeded raisins;
cook ten minutes, then add three
pounds of sugar. Qook ten minutes,
add the juice and grated rind of two
oranges; reheat and put in glasses.
Spiced Currants.—Wash, drain and
stem seven pounds Of currants, put
into a preserving kettle with five
pounds of sugar, three tablespoonfuls
of cloves and three of cinnamon (tied
in a cloth); add a pint of vinegar.
Heat to the boiling point and cook
slowly one and a half hours.
Ripe Currant Pie.—Crush a cupful
of currants, add a cupful of sugar.
Beat the yolks of two eggs, add two
tablespoonfula of water, a tablespoon
ful of flour; mix with the fruit and
sugar and cook until smooth. Bake
an under crust, fill with the cooked
mixture, make a meringue of the
whites of two eggs and two table
spoonfuls of sugar. Spread over the
top and brown In the oven.
Frosted Currants.—Wash fine large
bunches of cherry currants, drain and
dip in white of egg and roll in gran
ulated sugar. Lay on a paper until
perfectly dry. Serve as dessert.
Currant Cream Jelly.—Soak an
ounce of gelatine in a cup of water
until soft, then add a cup of boiling
water and stir until the gelatine is all
dissolved. Add to this two-thirds of
a cup of currant juice and a cup of
raspberry juice. Sweeten to taste and
stir over the Are until It is boiling hot.
Strain and set aside to chill. Add a
half cup of powdered sugar to a- pint
of whipped cream, add to the gelatine
mixture and beat until stiff. Turn
into a wetted mold and pack in ice
and 6alt for several hours.
Fresh currants well mixed with
granulated sugar makes a most deli
cious fruit to serve for breakfast or
any other meal.
Great Poet Fast Worker.
Byron worked fast. He once told
a publisher that he was like a tiger,
and if he missed his first spring went
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heat when the first spring did not
miss. 'The Corsair" oocupied ten
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were sufficient to produce the "Pris
oner of Chillon.” The "Bride of
Abydos,” though revised afterward,
was at first the work of only four
nights, and most of his poems, in fact,
were impromptus.
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French View of Women.
The life of a woman can be divided
into three epochs; in the first she
dreams of love, in the second she ex
periences it, in the third sKe regrets
it.—Antoine Jean Casse de Saint Pros
per.
Negligence Called Manslaughter.
The case of Stehr vs. State before
the Supreme Court of Nebraska, in
volved the sentence of a father for
from one to ten years in the penitenti
ary for criminal negligence, because
during a blizzard in Nebraska, when
the weather was bitter cold, he per
mitted the fire to go out, snow drifted
through a crack in the door and a
broken windowpane, and the bedding
of all the members of the family was
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children were frozen, and although
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essary and the child died of blood pois
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care after he discovered the frozen
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firming the conviction the court held
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of an infant child culpably to neglect
it so that death ensues as a conse
qence is manslaughter, although death
or grievous bodily harm was not in
tended, and if the parent has not the
means for the child’s nurture it is his
duty to apply to the public authorities
for relief.
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Telling a Secret.
It is doubtful whether the
who asserted tk.it secrets were^H
to tell, foresaw, even in his most^H
cal mood, anything like the follt^B
conversation in has Echo: ' Jjjf
"Lottie tells me that you tol^K
the secret th.it i told you not
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to tell you that 'old it to her.”BB
"Yes, I told hi r that 1 wouldn't
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her that I told you!”
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Clears Up on Change to Proper Food.
The brain cannot work with clear
ness and accuracy, if the food taken is
not fully digested, but is retained in
the stomach to ferment and form
poisonous gases, etc. A dull, clouded
brain is likely to be the result.
A Mich, lady relates her experience
in changing her food habits, and re
sults are very interesting:
“A steady diet of rich, greasy foods
such as sausage, buckwheat cakes and
so on, finally broke down a stomach
and nerves that, by inheritance, were
sound and strong, and medicine did
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I was suffering from a case of consti
pation that defied all remedies used.
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