| Show I If REALM OF W I WOMAN ASKS COURT TO SET HER FREE Asks Divorce Under Thirteenth Amendment to Constitution of United States DECLARES SHE IS SLAVE Will Demand That State Take Care of Their I Dorothy New ew loik Jan 27 The The suit o of ot Mis hs h's Jane Welsh Strong who seeks a di dl divorce I orce vorce from her hor husband nd W W. Edward Edvar I t strong on the thc ground that she sho Is hs his his' r r slave tila an and that slavery Is prohibited I L' L under tho thirteenth amendment to Lo the ue Constitution of oC the United Suites wilt will como come up for or hearing soon in the thc I meantime man and are ln lI living InT in inthe T the same flat fiat at West ost One Hun f dred llred anti and Twenty-ninth Twenty street They havo have subdivided the tho apartment and practically are aro living apart Here arc are I tome onie of the ordinary household d duties I Ij j performed by married women all ov over O cr I tho land which Mrs Strong characterizes character t izes as slavery slaver r Washing and Ironing i Mending her het husbands husband's socks sock and f owing en ing on buttons I Cooking meals HockIng Rocking the thc baby to sleep Living LI on a salar salary of or 20 n. n a week wooI Mrs Irs Strong tron Is la a beautiful woman o othe of or orthe the tho Gibson GibRon girl type Sho is Js only onh Ji 1 old and her husband J 1 years Is 31 3 Th Thy y havo O ono one child Doroth Dorothy Strong and his Ills wife e talked the thc whole holo matter over O and anti ho he consented to her obtaining a divorce only On n II Jlou Household I II I 1 am m just as much a u slave as any I negro that I heard of or in the South I before tho war war said ald t Mrs Strong I I thought 1 I my husband but have havo since learned differently I drudge I here in these few rooms without good I clothing without pleasure of or any sort and without hope of rest or vacation I My Iy husband simply cannot an not support us on 20 O a a. week nor ner can he educate our oui child If ho cannot support mo me hu ho cannot provide for more children I Iam Iam I Iam am not afraid of oC motherhood but every I time I might become a mother I take a chance of death and do not Intend to do it unless I am well provided for or I If It we wo are aro divorced I shall shan demand that the tue state which is a n party to Lo out our I marriage contract rear our little girl Involuntary servitude sor cited in tho thirteenth thirteenth thirteenth thir thir- amendment means unwilling serIce ser ser- vice Ice I am an unwilling servant in my lUY own 11 house My I interpretation of or orthe the amendment is that it covers al all alJ of ot slavery sla and tho unsuitable marriage of ot the tho present day cei certainly is slavery of ot the most galling type Stron Strong under the terms of ot their I 3 agreement refused at nt first to give gl out outa a statement leaving his wife to do all 1111 the talking but ho finally camo forth forthwith forthwith forthwith with the announcement that she sho t ho sug BUg suggested the thirteenth amendment as a n means of oC t securIng freedom and hopes she ho will win Mrs Irs Strong says she he will marr marry again If it she he gets a a. wealthy hus bus band |
