| Show 7 TUNIS QUICKER THAN RENO dlvore Is granted in liss less then than an hour and costs costa in african I 1 city the n next t time you happen to bo b in tunis lont clont fall to pay a visit to the court it la Is the most moat haroun al ai institution this side of 0 A great hall of t just justice I 1 oe vaulted and floored with marble and strewn with eastern astern carpets forms the setting while husbands in turbans and lawyers and groen green robed gray bearded judges complete a scene which might have been taken straight from the lie arabian nights the women closely ailed and hooded are herded like so many cattle within an iron grill take no part in the proceedings i w aich so intimately affect their futures their interests being left in the hands of a voluble and avoca in each of the tour four sides of the great hall Is an alcove and an d in each alcove seated cross legged on a many cushioned divan Is a green robed gold turbaned caal to him the husband stated his case tho the wife through her avocat advocat putt putting ilig in h her e r defense it if she ha has any the judge considers the facts in silence gravely stroking his long gray heard board the while and then delivers his de decision cislon in nine cases out 0 of ten so I 1 was told in favor of 0 the husband should either person be dissatisfied with the finding he be or she can take an appeal by the he simple process ot of walking I 1 ng cross the hall laying thelt thel case before one of the other judges whose decision Is final A case even it if appealed Is generally disposed ot of well under an hour and at a total cost of conclusively that the record for quick and easy divorces la is not held by ateno metropolitan politan magazine |
