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Show ; f El IS THIS ' HVOBCE cwrresr Pouts and an Injudicious Mother-in-Law in Evidence in Nelson Suit; School Principal and Wife Exchange Seem-inqly Seem-inqly Inconsequential Charges. (BY ZULA NEV1TT.) Up in District court a jair of children arc airing their childish troubles. They think they are real grown-up troubles, and one of them is asking a divorce on the ground of a quarrel over who owned the piano and who should not have been invited to a party. Yes, they think their troubles are real, grown-up ones,, do these children, but they are not. There is nothing in the whole suit worth the agony the two are going through now. And there is nothing real about their troubles but the loneliness, the heartache and the living tragedies that their lives will be if the divorce is granted. THEY DON'T NEED A DIVORCE, THESE CHILDREN. THEY NEED TO BE SPANKED GOOD AND HARD APT) TOLD TO RUN AND PLAY, IT IS TO ME. JJVTD H. NELSON, PRINCIPAL OP THE JACKSON SCHOOL, AND CLELLA M'CREADY NELSON, ARE THE NAMES OF THE CHILDREN. MRS. NELSON IS ASKING FOR DIVORCE. DI-VORCE. SHE IS A PRETTY, SPOILED CHILD WITH A FETCHING POUT. POUTY CHILDREN ARE AWFULLY HARD TO PLAY WITH. DON'T YOU REMEMBER THE POUTY LITTLE GIRL IN THE NEXT BLOCK WHOM YOU INVITED TO SHARE YOUR PLAYHOUSE. AND SHE "GOT MAD" AT EVERYTHING? POUTED BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T PASS THE MUD PIE TO Trca FIRST, POUTED STILL MORS IF YOU TRIED TO APOLOGIZE, AND IF YOU IGNORED HER, RAN HOME TO MOTHER AND CRIED BECAUSE THOSE MEAN CHILDREN DID NOT TREAT HER j RIGHT? Just imagine that little girl grown j up and encouraged in her pouting by a j doting and injudicious mother, and you j have the reasons behind the Nelson di j vorce suit, which is causing such a hen j ration. The allegations in the complaint are I so childish that they make you want to laugh or crv. The two were married ' Julv J. 1PW less than eight months , ago', and went awav on a little trip to ( La Grande and Portland, Or. No one knows how the man had looked forward c 1 brought out, one by one, for him to ex plain. This is an experience beside which being butchered to make a Roman Ro-man holidav were a picnic. The incident of the piano was brought up and explained. Typical of the trivialities which led to the divorce were the occasions when, Mrs. Nelson alleges, her husband grew angry with her and made a bed for himself in the next room, taking the greater part of the bed clothing with him. "I asked 'ella to tell me the facts 1 in the case about a telephone which she i had asked to have installed." said Nelson. M'lelJa. I wish you would tell me the facts about the "telephone. It is uncomfortable to have Hnvthing like ; that between us." I "said. Sdie pin her hands over her ears and said. 'I don't : wnt to talk about that old telephone.' I said. 'All right,' and went into the next room and lav down on the couch, but I came back la a little while. "The next time waa wka pat her cold fet on my back, and I said, 'Don't, Clella, -don't' She said a man that would grumble about a thing like that ought to be hanged." "I said. 'All right, if that is the wav you feel about it.' I went into the next room and made a bed for mvself on the couch, taking some of the bed-clothing bed-clothing mth me. Then, fearing she might catch cold. I went and tucked my overcoat about her." Didn't Call Her "Liar." Nelson emphatically denied ever having hav-ing called his wife a "liar.'' a "sneakv liar," or other things alleged in the complaint. He stated that he left the house of his wife's mother for the Wilson Wil-son hotel because of a difficulty with Mrs Me 'ready. Mrs Nelson, he stated, "as making out a list of young women de wished to invite to a partv. and he objected to one name, that of a young ; "oinan w no nau ignoreo an invitation 1 to the Nelsons' wedding. Mrs Mei readv. he sta'ed, came in j and said. "I wonder who vou are going to make her cut out nextf" After telf ing her that if he could not counsel j with his wife without her interference I he would leave, he left. He afterward 1 went back at his wife's request. The final altercation arose over a pair , of shoes which Mrs. Nelson purchased and paid for when Nelson wished to pav I for them. There were a few criil I words, both knowing that thev were ! misunderstanding each other. Th I poutv little girl flounced back to her mother, and now there is a suit for divorce. di-vorce. Pouts Against Temper. And so the pretty romance is to end in the dismal black mir" of the divorce j court, all because one of the children I cultivated pouts instead of smiles, ancl the other lost his temper. ' Vou would better run back to your i plavhouse, children, and pick up the nroken teacups and make new mud pies' Divorces are too serious things for chil dren to play with. to taking his sweet little Pride away on that tripXand how he had saved for it and dreamed about it. Those things do not appear in divorce complaints. It would have been as happy as the dreams, too. if that little pouting habit havdsot intruded. otetd to "Freze -Out." VWc it did. and it made th bride majfEifv molehills into great, hideous mountains. She imagined she was hurt rhen her husband went down town in companv with his brother in law and engaged in a social game of fTetz?. out.'' Then th bridegroom's disposi tion began to fray on the edges under the pouting process, and cross words followed, each and every one of which are duly set forth in the complaint, you tnav be sure. And how mean, how trivial they look, too, under the nam of "cruelty which began while plain tiff and defendant were on their wedding wed-ding tour. ' ' Then the two came home and went to live with the bride's parents. The hus band made a mistake there for no house, is large enough for two families, and especially is this likely to be true when it is the house of one's mother in law. There were bickerings and bitter little quarrels over nothing, that ought to hav blown over like a puff of smoke, onlv that each planted the chip of of fended dignity on his shoulder and j dared the other to knock it off. These 4iffiiilti became three-eornered affairs and finallv ended in the husband taking himiwlf tff to the Wilson hotel. Later thv werp reeoneiled and lived for a time in their own hom. Then rame a complete break ami the divorce proceed, ings. Fonr Witnesaei Today. There- were four witnesses on the stand this morning. One was William Speers, an employee of the Telephone company, who testified to installing a telephone in the Nelson home and that therei was no difficulty over it. as Mrs. INelson 's complaint stated. Next on tbe stand was Olive Ferris, teacher in the Jackson school of which Nelson is principal. Rhe testified that the had talked to Mrs. Nelson shortly fieore the separation and that the bride had said in response to her prais of Nelaon as principal: "If he is as good a principal as he is husband, there is none better." Mt- R. O. Storer. a teacher of the UK -fnool who followed her upon the tat. iatified to the same thing and addedn that Mrs. Nelaon appeared " beamingly happy" and showed no igns of Buffering from ill-treatment. Nelson Tells Hia Side. David Nelson,, came next. All the petty things in the petition were |