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Show SHE STICKS OUT HER TONGUE Tho divorce case of Leonard J, Smith against Mary r:. Smith 1b being heard by the Judgo or thp district court this afternoon. There are many vfuesses to be heard and) the expectation expec-tation is that it wil; require this afternoon af-ternoon and the major portion of tomorrow to-morrow to hear the case. , In his complaint, Mr. Smith alleges that he married tiio defendant pU Spanish Fork. December 15, JS90,j there-now being two children in the' ., . , ,r family, one a minor His giounds lor divorce are that h:s wife has been quarrelsome and of uch a nagging disposition that It has neen quite impossible im-possible for him to live with her. The plaintiff status that his wife has been In the habit of tantalizing him, by sticking put her tongue, and lCfusing to cat at the table with him. lie slates that after she had prepared his meal she would ltsate the dining room and "slam the dcors " She would not enter into conversation with him, nor walk with him on the streets. He asks for divorce and such other relief as the court may direct. Mrs. Smith denies tne allegations and, In a cross-complaint, alleges that the plaintiff has treated her in an unkind un-kind manner for a number of years past, having failed to provide hor and the children with tlf necessaries of life and that ho has also deserted hor. She says that in November. 1910, tho plaintiff drove her from the homo and that sho had to worK Tor her living. Upon another occasion slie had to go to her mother'shome in Salt Lako to live, because of his actions. in the year 190G, the defendant says, tho plaintiff compelled her to homestead home-stead a piece of land In the I'intah Indian Reservation country and. whilo she was living on the homestead, the plaintiff kopt company with and otherwise other-wise consorted with anotner woman, one Ida Falker, that he accompanied the Falker woman to public places, entertained her at thp Smith home. She also states that her husband has .been greatly addlcte- to the use of strong drink, oftentimes becoming intoxicated. in-toxicated. ' Mrs. Smith claims tnat the plaintiff is the owner of an Interest in the Smith Brothers Mattress and Carpet factory In Ogden' and that tho Interest Inter-est was earned through her efforts as well as his. ' She wants a division of the community property. s |