Show when married people wish to swap mates by JEAN NEWTON N A veI ern state there is a case IN on record of lent wife swapping sapping two couples actu actually tilly did whit so s many husbands and ales hes have nl at soine point in their joint careers wished mis hed they could do sapped swap pei husbands and athes oil nil all aloe board and legal or almost legal as the atory will show two couples living on forms four and a halt miles apart decided that they preferred each others mate to their on thereupon each testifying estl fing for the other oilier without rancor and without tears both botnen obtained simultaneous divorce decrees and immediately turned around and an exchanged their mutes mates in a double wedding edding vi ceremony that it seems was the only diere dl re spectacle spec table thing they did for the divorce decrees distinctly stated thit that they could not ieni lebarry arry within ninety days and after all ail the trouble they W WH had biad daiken to remain respectable and in accod accordance dance nith the law they found themselves nevertheless in conflict n alli it IL the state alleged that under 1 tile lie they v flera ere not married to encia other oilier nt at all anil and bean ellIt ial proceedings lor for ft a ear the sword hung over these nely newly loa lied tiled couples and tile children which e jeh other lind had taken with wilh lir her were thoy they living together in sin so to adik f or alere they married flo flowler weer lecul technicalities can clork fur for ton it seems ns as well as asnin oil and one turned up kutileh let them out the judi judge e the proceedings edings ii then them saying that in swap ping mates ns as they lid did they belated ledu no liiv law of the state anil and blint if any punishment is to hp be meted out to them it must lie be left to the unfailing penalties of their consciences those fierce and pains find and punishments milich liichi conscience alone may inflict indict to my mind that judge Is not a practical ailin iancy ills his leaving to such an indefinite quantity as conscience tle tie tl e punishment lie feels these people desere how much nearer tile the possibility of retribution in 1 I just a year or two of the erdl nary routine of 0 married life with the new mates married life minus the thrills of pro prosecution or ostracism I 1 inc 0 1911 1931 bell syndicate |