Show ALIMONY AS ASAN ASAN ASAN AN INDUSTRY With the divorce evil C now established established liaised on such a firm firm foundation that It merits the sobriquet ot of the eighth deadly sin some readjust readjustment ment meat is bound to come como sooner or later in the correlated crime of ot ali all mony There are arc fortunately a afew afew afew few Innocent souls in the world who marry for love but it Is lx not nol hard to seek and find people who marry for Insurance and people who marry marr for alimony One factor which will do much to alter the status of ot alimony pay ing log is is' is the change chango which has como come about in the independence ot of o wo wo- wamen men Divorced men argue and aith Ih no small show of ot reason that thai they t e should not be required to pay to childless women omen who are arc perfectly able to support them them- themselves themselves selves The situation in this matter has so much from front the situation that obtained ten or fifteen years ago that there have been severn several cases on record In which disabled divorced husbands have bave sued their wives for support In the form o ot of alimony In the most recent case I of oC this kind to come to notice a Chicago bricklayer who was sued for divorce by his wife tiled flIed a pc pe that his wife is granted anted a divorce bo be required to pay him alimony allmon The Tho bricklayer In this case was suffering from hernia and anc tuberculosis while his bis wile wife in ad ad- addition addition to earning 35 5 5 a week In a R. astore store was as drawing alimony from two former husbands Not all cases are as invoiced as this nor as clear dear cut but the exist exist- existence ence once of ot this and similar suits Indicates Indi cates that the tho day is not far tar dis dis- distant distant tant when the precedents ot of ali ali- alimony alimony ali ali- mony paying will have to be re re- revised revised re- re revised to meet changing conditions in society One other Chicago case calls at at- attention attention to another phase of oC the tho alt all alimony mony mon evil In this second case a divorced dentist paying alimony to Ills his first wife has married again and has in his second venture ap ap- apparently apparently ap- ap apparently found happiness His first wife wiCe is childless child leu but continues to draw alimony from her former mate mato Wife No Xo 2 objects and has issued an nn ultimatum rather than permit her husband to pay further alimony she will have ha him go to Jail She has organized an anti anti- alimony league and is attempting to rally rall to her standard the tho tho sands ot of husbands who tho labor and work to earn the millions ot of dol dollars lars now paid over the counter to balance the ledger of oC matrimonial profit and loss I |