Show DIVORCES IN ENGLAND i A Parliamentary Report Showing Some Interesting I In-teresting Facts Just Out It is pretty well understood in this country that the people of England dont go in much for divorces and judicial judi-cial separations between man and wife but just how small the number of such suits is perhaps is not known here The house of commons has recently had u report made showing the doings of the English divorce court and the number and character of the cases tried thereIn there-In six years 2200 suits for divorce were tried About 1300 of these suits were instituted by the husbands and only about 900 by the wives A wife has to prove cruelty as well as other offenses in order to get a divorce The women were ahead in the number num-ber of suits instituted for judicial separation sepa-ration They began in six years 181 such suits while only 48 were begun by the men In 121 cases collusion was sus peoted and the queens proctor intervened inter-vened and 118 of these cases wero thrown out of court Few of the other cases failed Our own statistics regarding marriages mar-riages and divorce are just tabulated With all the facilities for getting rid of husband or wife in divorce made easy courts there have been found in the whole country only onefifth of 1 percent per-cent of the persons who have been married mar-ried who have also been divorced One person in 600 means one couple in 1000 that get divorced There are 71895 divorced women in the United States There are not so many divorced men by a great many but then divorced men and widowers are very apt to marry and the figures prove that they probably do for there are not so many widowers in the country coun-try as widowsNew York Times A New English Beauty It is a long time since there has been an out and out English beauty and so the debut of the 18yearold daughter of the Duke of St Albans promises to be followed by no end of triumphs for that exquisitely pretty girL Not since the Jersey Lily smote society hip and thigh iu tho early nineties has such n sensation been made as Lady Moyra Beauclerk occasioned at the last drawing draw-ing room presentation American fair ones have had it much their own way ill London for several years but now loyal Britons aro bowing down to one of their own blood a true typical Eng lish rose the daughter of a duke and I fear American beauties with all their loud millions must sing small Will tho stars and stripes permit this state of things to continueCor Boston Herald |