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Show I I Grounda for Divorce I 4- rVEN a woman cannot talk perpetually. A 'j ' -' Spokane husband went on a silence strike , I": twenty years ajo. In all of that .time he has III; refused to speak to his wife. Undisputed risht to the privileges of the floor must have ap- j I": pcared as a woman's victory In the early t ;;;; stages of the strike. i ' The wife' hoever ire'1 ' her freedom j::! in this respect after twenty years and now she wants a divorce on account of it. Serl- I ii:! ously, she ,s entitled to what she asks for. Hi! l hcre ls no orm of C'uelty' worse than that t !'.!! of complete Indifference. ; ' A family row which "comes to blows Is j !!m soon ended. Peace followj strife and all Is j ii;; forjotten. Not so with the battle which Is J entirely Ignored by one or the. other of the j ' .... belligerents. There Is no peace In thif atmos- .... phere. We cannot understand how a wife, or a husband either, could stand twenty yeais j ;;;; of it. In a situation of this kind, divorce I .... would seem to be the only solution. |