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Show Divorced Women. What becomes of divorced women f A vast field of unexplored territory is opened by the question. Just aa mules are supposed to seek for their death some spot where no eye can behold them, so divorced women, once divorced, are believed to withdraw to some mysterious myste-rious limbo in which the rest of their lives is spent unobserved. But The Tribune has been at the painB of collecting collect-ing statistics about them, and it finds that they can accurately be divided into the four following classes: Remarried within a year, 75 per cent.; waiting for an offer, 10 percent.; fallen into evil ways, 10 per cent.; devoted to celibacy, 5 per cent. These figures have been compiled from a comparison of the divorce lists with the marriage registers; from the statements state-ments of judges, justices of the peace, clergymen, lawyers and court oDicials. and from personal inquiry among those who have oecn divorced. They can be accepted ns fairly and substantially correct. cor-rect. Chicago Tribune. |