Show i 4 t it I if I 7 1 t t t j A I i li f. i l i S 3 ii A I r. r 4 c Ba j. j I i- i r i j u f v t N Never ever Before W Was as There Such Suck Sucho i ian an Abundance of o New ew Divorces ices F j if Si A A and Separations Most of o Them r Dating from Mans Man's Return to o ii Civilian Clothes Mrs l Wm m Stephen I t Van Rensselaer and and W Womans Woman's r r OlTIa n s rg s M t Her Husband Who Vho 4 Did Rome War Yar and Work from in a N New ew R Realization 1 M I Whom She N Now 1 ow t r t tL of f Her H L Has App Applied tion 0 1 er A Own wn n x a Divorce lJ lor I Ind d. d 1 n ep epen- epen en- en 11 1 4 d dence ence 1 rI o j 1 I 1 1 t m i E B By Y Helen I Hester ester Hill everybody y is getting married marrie HURRAH Never were ere weddings so plentiful nor or so soon soon on the increase for City Clerk Patrick J. J St nI nIly ly factotum extraordinary of New Yorks York's s official Joinery the Marriage License Bureau Municipal Building says so and Ill I'll take his word Rord ord for it And I glowed with the warm sympathy that every woman feels for every pair of lovers as I this hate business business busi busi- registered a devout out Thank heaven ness Dess is is over May lay the signing of the armistice and of peace prove a happy happ augury in in the domestic domes domes- tic skies Ekies as well well well-a n rainbow after the storm whoso whose spelling hope love and faith shan shall father the new and better race to come But these happy musings were drawn up in short order and I got the jolt of my life when he But Now But Now why must there ther be always a abut bat I I think if a n. magic genie came to tome me at this moment and said to me You may have ha one tingle lingle wish but only one one what is it to be I without a seconds second's thought or hesitancy isle ci for far a world without buts Well this particular but is vouched for by bythe bythe bythe the Federal Census Bureau which discovers that on one out of every nine marriages in the United States heads directly for the divorce courts an and that th though ugh marriages are arc decidedly e in increasing so EO are divorces and at a much higher ratio What on earth rth is the matter with wives and bands 1 f ft A J Tidal Wave of Emotion JB these days of toppling thrones when every every- lady body has his own patent remedy to cure the world worM pf of anything and anybody he doesn't l like e is the gam and most sacred throne of all to pitch into the discard with the rest 1 Arc Are tho and sanctity and the unit unity of the tome some to exist in fn mens men's minds only as a vague T Who mo is getting all of these divorces and why IB L it only the ultra rich and ultra-fashionable ultra w Rha m with more time and money than they know ti what to do with have their their fling in and antI oat cot of marriage according to the caprice of the tho Eminent t tOr Or Chr is fa everybody doing it all an the common- common variety of folks including even the very poor Is everybody sick of everybody else 1 ft Maybe the divorce scare is only a n. sort of from the war involving just tho thoe e ome souls Bouls who dared invoke Cupid and Mars to preside together over their nuptials and amt not J n a menace striking actually at the very art tart of the tho mania marriage institution go Let us look looks Into s together and see what we can make of it Yu may be bc sure I am not S going S to bother you youn with the J tons of written matter philosophizing in on CD n the effects effects induced in us all by the great reat war for jw We yc nil all know b by Y personal experience that nothIng nothing noth noth- Ing ing is exactly normal during luring war times neither conditions nor men nor women Men rushed to the so front-so S did the M len en rushed to women the h altar together with the women all JU swept on the crest of a tidal wave of exalted emotion an emotion which unhappily from its tery gives ies it nature birth rarely outlives ves the the the- moment that tha And that is why no o one class more than any y ya ther Is then hem affected d by this dV orce di wave ave It U bite hiti t f a all nIl 11 doughboy M and officers alike aline Anyone with half an C cyc Sc C and a 3 little heart tan n nee ee cc right enough h why hy they all e got fc themselves 3 married so sUddenly whether here herc before th they or over there billeted thousands of rattles miles ray from all they had r about r really reay known and care cared Lad ad kindness Feminine sympathy and com P anion s hi i s is 3 a whole bundle of tricks to lone lone- i. i I 19 a men in a time like that But wh why dont don't they married ti Will Witt th the C case Se of the beautiful Mrs Will William Stephen V Van vin n nene Rensselaer C aw Wh who as Roxana Roxana- Bowen as cue ene of J 11 the tle younger social 1 le Y leaders cadets ers in New i and P I throw any light the tho c bJ ct e on 1 O l' this all li the 1 Performed d on April il 9 tide cde and J to La cio s 's fates fate s seemed verily to pre pre- lap of th the pOUt pour Ui their offe offerings lavishly Y i in n th the c happy ld b Love Lo wealth social ocial Ci all B all were h hero her rs for the thed d The nc husband of present social 1 r 1 1 A f f d' d dt iI t f 1 I. 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T J I r 1 1 4 1 I t tl l Sr f i t 1 J f I I r y I Ii f r i ir i i r I I y tion and great historic lineage his ancestor r Elias Boudinet having signed the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1783 and himself secretary of the American Embassy at Rome obtained special Permission from President Wilson Vilson a few days after our declaration of war to come home and attend his own oven wedding There the they were the bri bride 21 and amI her ller new husband 30 ao years rears old And today Reno Nevada that Mecca of or the disgruntled claims her as ns a n resident but only so lon long as it will take her to secure her coveted release from irom this seemingly seemingly seem seem- ideal marriage Has she tired of him so o soon oon Or docs does she prefer the easier social whirl at home to the moro more exacting exacting- diplomatic duties imposed upon her husband bus bus- band in his chosen choen post Shattered War Val Romances Again there is the case of Mrs Florence Brainard Grimwood who seeks the annulment of her hel marriage c to Capt Frank G G. Grimwood contracted contracted con con- in the summer of 1916 1316 Seventeen short da days s 's given gh-en over to the sedative sedative seda seda- tive of a whirlwind courtship and the tho pretty t 1 Miss bliss Florence became the prettier 11 Mrs rs Capt Grim Grim- wood rood I use th the word sedative because these courtships seem to deaden every instinct of ordinary nary It llY sense and caution And now v Capt Grimwood Grim Grim- woo wood turns out to be neither Captain nor Grimwood Grimwood Grim Grim- wood but a Robert Archer former clerk in m a a London barristers barrister's office with an ambition to form part of the exclusive Chevy Chase set in m Washington D D. D C. C of which his bis wife was a leading lead lead- ins inz ing member Next the Ford Peace Pence Ark not to be bc confounded confounded confounded con con- founded with Noahs Noah's Ark nor the more recent J. J 7 G r I t t Mrs I rS Marion Marton A. A R. R Bral Braley y Who Vho Has Petitioned f for r a Divorce 1 4 I 3 31 from Her Poet-Husband Poet Who Went Vent to Europe with 1 J iJ fv H Henry enry F Ford cord or d to T Try y to E End n d tl the lC TIT War Tsar v c i r The minded high serious serious girl L i found 1 her leT so soldier husband 1 d. d leT leT- h all allis congenial now he hee heis is a out of the the e army an and d 1 has as L reverted to h. h his IS 0 old I d demands life on j 1 1 r r T F 7 4 J c rI gc f r i. I A L t 1 1 C 1 y J l 11 i r. r i I. I I A 1 i. i N f I I P t 1 b 10 fi 4 1 c I i fJ i tf-i tf t 3 u if 4 i i 1 r c. c Sit or 1 J J J 1 a ar r v fi I h 1 l 1 S 4 r 44 w 44 I c J 7 Y r r e K Sky ti r rr 1 q 4 t r. r r of American Brides French and und British l Since Arriving Here by Scores Many l 1 Native Land Soldiers Have Ihn-c e He Returned turned to Their SI r r cr 1920 f Soviet Ark has hns something b yet vet again to answer f for r in the unhappily shattered romance that be began began gan under its auspices to say nothing of the benign and paternal blessings of that father of peace and grape juice William Jennings Bryan on its memorable vo voyage age in 1 G. G But But the marriage contracted on board the ship of Mrs Marion A. A Braley and her poetic spouse Berton Braley alack slack and a day has ended like the ill fated mission of their trusted baric bark in war nr where peace should h have we reigned supreme It 5 seems ms the dulcet tones of the poet are reserved for the workaday world while his more strident notes note affront the sensitive tympanum of his equally temperamental bride Anyway nY n she is seeking a It divorce and a return In in single blessedness to her girlhoods girlhood's homo home in Philadelphia The TIte Lure of the Uniform Then there are tho the doughboys with with their imported imported im ported mates turning out ont to be bo in many in instances instances instances in- in stances sad Its It's s no good shouting recriminations recriminations re- re criminations and I told you sos soV across the At At- lantic Zey should have stay home our girls on the part of the tho French Zose lose boys comme fighters or brothers yes but husbands Zey make ze 7 zo whole life and our women zey mako make a only of It is equally futile to discover that the usual casual foreign girl is not the law in to descend upon Buddies Buddie's mother in or ar Kalamazoo Kalama Kalama- zoo or Butte Montana Undoubtedly many mb mixed mired elements went Into all these different war marriages Hero worship the physical and mental lure of the uniform the desire b by the man to feel in the long stretches of at tho the trench h nights that the one girl or some gI girl l really belonged to him the hIm the disinclination of the tha he girl to be left out in the cold when others were talking of their fighting sweethearts or displaying display y ying ing letters or rings sent to them from th the theaU front all aU these things and more played their part Who shall shaIl say all that went on in these minds and souls thus impetuously joined only to bo be ruthlessly separated in most instances at the very ery portals of the church Separated often until the very final homecoming home coming and theres there's the rub Do you know I very much question whether we are nrc all re really lly so much changed since the tho waris waris war is over or whether it is that we only seem changed now v because we wo have gono Sono back to where we were five years ago Take the minded high-minded serious girl who found her hor soldier husband all aU congenial But now that thaI he lIe is back she has discovered that his seeming seriousness was but a reflex and only a temporary ary ry one of the horrible war conditions on the theother side Now he is is out of the ho has other side army e c reverted to his Ilis old on vu me rue lIe i ng but DuG frivolous light hearted amusement A Problem for Love to Solve Or the really serious man maD who diverted for forthe forthe forthe the time from what would have been his ordinary choice of a girl from sheer mental exhaustion picked out n a fluffy ruffle type e for a t wife And now now back bark and restored to quiet and peace he yearns earn for a 3 mate understanding mate understanding and helpful helpful to to fin find only a simpering painted doll at his side Then there is the man who seemed to take on new life and strangely com commanding and masterful master master- ful at attributes tributes with with the wearing of his country's uniform Now T he is again Iam bending over er his desk selling automobiles l and the the qualities of h his or uniform seem to have left him with big hb discharge from the army and return to civilian pursuit I could go go on multiplying m but I r eel icel the an ati n answer sliver EWer is Plain plain- P lain Nothing in ill the world is going to le lend this world to a n safe and happy solution of t the he innumerable vet ex problems that confront rat it except saner sand sound Bound thought and love JO y Yea e r l ova Jova ovain v vin in in ami aud for or the home n and e dIo love r and prIde of cou cou- cou For every nation is 15 j nt a t as great and happy try s as the sum bum o of all its lc r and prosperous Mind blind you ou I speak zo 1 brief against divorce which however can but remedy Iy an avil r jJ il where would exist eMbt at nt all were marriages entered none into less les lightly and with a careful counting o of the costs and compensations Dont Don't expect too much h of ot love lo nor nore e a too little Human companionship is made up of and take f r i if r. t. t 1 r |