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Show Divorce Problem In Tennessee. 1 Tho office ot the circuit court clerk,! whoro divorce suits aro filed, waj on tho fourth floor of tho court house,! and the elovator was not running.' Amoni he early stair-climbers was a? tye bjtck mammy of nearly 300 pojhs weight, and pulled along by' tbp trousors a shrlvoled, shrinking old black man. , At' tho top of tho first flight of steps, which was unusually long, she stqppod and oxclalraod, botwoon puffs, and blows: "Look a-hore, nigger, i' alnt a-gwlno one stop fu'thor! I'so' drug you th'u forty-fo' yoars o' mat-i riniony, an' I'so driig you up all deso hqro stairs. Ef dat elevashun was a-runnln', I'd git dat dlvo'co dls ralnlt; bu( I uln't gwino drag no runt of ai nigger up to do fo'fo flo' o' dis hero cq)to house, Jos fur do 'llclal disruption o' do tlos o' matrimony, blooa Gawd!" |