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Show VETERAN JUDGE CITIES CAUSES OF DIVORCES Chicago. "Instead of building more schoolhouses, we ought to build more bathtubs and make the use of them compulsory. Every good housewife should abhor dirt." Judge William N. Gemmiil. who has cut the Gordian knot of matrimony matri-mony or else tried to "knot" it more firmly in more than 10,000 divorce cases which he has heard during his two year's experience in the Domestic Relations Court, is writing his reminiscenses. And in them he offers not only the above-gem above-gem of wisdom but numerous others. "The bride should learn to mend shirts and sew on buttons," says the judge, "and how to fit goods to tho pattern, to cook, and ktep a spotless h dine," I J ii t the men, too. sometimes are to blame, he acknowledges. "Many a husband thinks his wife's swanlike neck and wellshapcd legs are for his sole delectation and no' for the public eye. Wives say such husbands belong in a Turkish harem." |