Show IS THE SPICE OF LIFE whoever has read 0 the stormy adventures adren tures of the wife of bath will not require evidence to corroborate the report that a few centuries further on in the evolution ot comans womans rights another female kaaa has arisen with a spirit to renovate roast or riva five husbands in about as many years this time it is the wife of goerz who counts her conquests over the sterner sex in multitudes the canterbury tale just received from san francisco recounts that within a few days a young and charmion charmi og airs kitty once once Za maniski once connolly once gomez has baen excused thanks by a san francisco court from her fourth connubial contract and that all of her four er husbands are still living in the state of california without discussing in alie presence of such record of infelicity all made since would be only cabural for a man to look with somewhat ol 01 dubiety upon the said kitty as a marital ally nevertheless it is said her gah catch is already in the fatal net pouting to be for better or for worse on the altar of kitty golicz nee connolly nee zam aniski nee but really kitrys kittys original name is quite lost in a mist of legal proceedings presuming that in none of these cases of matrimonial dissolution bos the honorable court been moved to its decision by the persuasions of sweet speech or the of dark lashes soft eyes and cherry lips we are constrained to regard the fair divorcee as the rarest and most original heroine of her time it is no ordinary woman who in chasie for a satisfactory husband will endure the wear of five courtships court ships the care of five weddings the tear of five honeymoons and the despair of tour divorce suits and all within the span ot availability in fact all within seven years in reflecting ting upon the adventures of kitty gomez we need must think of the kisses and sweet words that have been lavished in vain the pies and cakes the benedictions the mother in law teara and the venerable shoes which have strewn that eventful path to honest matrimony and all abandoned like potatoes in a season of flush to be consumed by the dry rot of desuetude desue tuda such persistent fortitude under the ban of difficulties so multifarious awakens our deepest admiration but with all this prodigious waste of matrimonial proprieties ana the requisite attends of scandal court and attorneys fees corruption of marital traditions and lucli like discouragements discourage ments there remains a rather weighty balance against this otherwise heroic precedent and should the system of panta matrimony be agitated in our time we should be drawn by a force of logic and sentiment to the negative of the issue and yet perhaps this abstract judgment ie too harsh and will not answer in the for kitty go meza charms are eaid to have been quadrupled by her four matrimonial ventures and adventures |