Show 2 i f Increase in Divorces T. T i I HE liE first of a new year is the thc period for statistics and J while many of them are not interesting reading the of divorce which seems to be a growing evil is T-orth T of consideration and reflection reflection Statistics of J the thc county clerks clerk's office New York lork at the close of t business December 31 showed the thc number of or divorce t cases in Manhattan for 1910 1019 exceeded those of 1018 1918 by y J- J r more than 50 per cent The fi figures are arc 1335 as IS against 4 6 tin 1918 t Interviewed a. a as to his his opinion of the Iho pro probable cause or be increase Justice Samuel Greenbaum of the tho sug su- su g t. t court said Tire The moral side of life is not looked tipon upon a as strongly stron l as formerly There is a 1 great deal of to K- K materialism in the world at ut present Tho Th home Jacks lacks sanctity There is a tendency of young young- folk to escape j from the ties that hind hina them The They call it freedom H justice Davis s said Time The chaos chao created by the tho war also J Jias som something to do II with present conditions I It is t the e 1 usual sequence of an age of luxury The ilie condition is IS ji luot not permanent if J h these p c-p explanations are plausible the they do o nut f f seem seem to account full fully for so 0 alarming an increase It is l ti to suppose that t what has hm happened in X New W i is j but a reflex of or other sections nigh Digit cost of living liv- liv m ing ilig might be cited as another possible explanation if it not for the fact that alimony is usually deemed to toabe tobe tot abe t be more moie expensive continuance C in the married state The reasons ass assigned f for r thc the divorce iYo ce suits if compiled would tell feU the tho stor story It is probable a n good of the separations are aro the tle result of f flies i hasty marriages contracted without proper regard for 1 U Jc sanctity of the marriage covenant cO the war mr ewhen hen the glamour of tile the uniform hc bedazzled d the the light E r that t lies lies lies-in in womans woman's eyes C and lies l cs and nd lies and lies I 1 |