Show I T i HLf r OF I NT ERE S T T T Q WO WOMEN ME N I r EXAMINE BANK BOOK FOR WOE GERM WHEN SWATTING A THE DIVORCE BUG t HE THRIVES ON NOT OT SUFFICIENT FUNDS By Judge Thos F. F Graham Grahams s Sn n Francisco Divorce Judge Known t as Great Reconciler and Amer- Amer Americas America's fica's ica's Leading Heart Specialist e c We now come to one of the most Difficult problems of the divorce court the the pay envelope envelope ope In practically 4 every suit I have heard during the I past decade and 4 Id I'd hate to tell you how many there ther U were were were-Hubby's Hubby's In Income Income In- In 4 come and what he tI did with It figured more or less 1 It doesn't always ik l appear In the complaint complaint com corn plaint answer or testimony testimony but but one will usually find upon close Investigation investigation gation that money cj Graham divorce is v the e ereo reo root evil lt of the Not Wot sufficient funds All too frequently fre- fre have thos those three words sounded the death knell of a romance Not sufficient funds for what For For the husband to carouse and g gamble with at the same time trying to keep his family going at the rate his normal income would permit and deceiving his wife as to the actual state of his finances I IFor For IFor the wife to buy expensive millinery milli- milli nery wearing apparel and pretties I her husbands husband's earnings in no now noway noway w way y entitle her For husband again to lend injudiciously and never get it back or to invest In wildcat enterprises and ane watch atch It disappear N o or wife once more to waste at the butchers butcher's e and bakers baker's s and grocery ce I store bv by extravagant t D ha of table delicacies or or miscalculations and and misconceptions of the needs of her household v For husband and wife oftentimes to dissipate In a vain endeavor to buy social prestige or business bustness success by keeping pace with a set or gang who have dollars donars where they have dimes aTo To fritter awa away in other words with save that of having flaying a good time or being a good fen fellow ow or putting up a front h Are tre those in your household some things for which there are not sufficient funds I cannot advise you too urgently Either quit the foolish ex expenditures expenditures ex- ex I or q quit it the marriage game game game- dissolve the partnership partnership-go go your separate separate separate sep sep- arate ways ways You are never going to make a go of off It Sou if f you play it with that kind of ards cards You are not even going to give yo your r children or your friends or the a square dealt Are you overdrawing your ac account account account ac- ac count in the Bank of Wedded Bliss If so 50 do not fail to read the ac accompanying accompanying accompanying ac- ac companying article in which Judge Graham tells of the disasters with which you are flirting Five minutes minutes min mm- utes reflection on his advice my may save you many years of heartache and If 4 misery you dont don't need it yourself show it to some friend Who does docs i p pj j t I I Dont Don't you see what a fearful mistake I you are making In this world you simply get so o much for so much much and and the only way I to get more is to earn more and save more Who Is going to think better of you friend Husband because you gamble gambe away your income and star stav out late o 0 nights Nobody but the good fellows fellows fel fel- fel- fel lows who live on the proceeds of your folly I Who is going to admire you friend Wife when you ou are decked out In finI finery fin fin- ery cry which every one knows knows oh oh h yes they do that do-that that you cannot afford Noy No- No not body y not even the merchants who sold them to you if you dont don't poy your our bills promptly Who Vho is going to thank you friend I Husband for those loans and investments investments investments in vestments you made so impetuously impetuously- the men who profited by your rashness rashness rashness rash- rash ness They will merely laugh 3 v at you and brand you as a sucker an easy mark marle Does the butcher or the baker or orthe orthe orthe the grocer respect you friend Wife when you overbuy or spend your surplus surplus surplus sur sur- plus on specials Not they Their respect is reserved for the woman who chooses her menus to fit her purse purse- who knows what she can afford and doesn't even flirt with anything more expensive As for this joint idea of keeping u up with Lizzie the Lizzie the sooner you drop that tha the better Let your friends know just jus how far you can go and still remain solvent solvent and and fane sane If they are rea real friends they will respect your limitations limitations limitations limita limita- and your courage and frankness in announcing them Best of all an you'll never ne land in th the divorce courts on a charge of not sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- funds nor of extravagance I Instead you will have the laugh on hundreds who do every day in the I year I |