Show OUR DIVORCE LAWS AND ENGLAND'S Europeans are so GO apt to scot scoff at atour atour atour our loose divorce laws that it comes like a breath of ot fresh air to hear Lord Birkenhead bitterly criticising claing the narrow divorce laws of his own country Now to get the full meaning of ot this you have hue to remember that Lord Birkenhead was at one time the supreme law officer of tho the crown namely the lord chancellor And not long ago it became his bis sad cad duty in connection with ith other law lords to turn down an appeal of a woman for divorce Her hus husband band had killed another man but had been sent to an asylum for forthe forthe forthe the criminal insane She brought a divorce suit on tho the grounds of cruelty and infidelity The law lords held that the latter charge had not Dot been proven Lord Birken Birkenhead head bead said the applicant was doom doom- doomed doomed ed ad to loneliness for the rest of her life lite You see in England cruelty alone does not get a woman a 11 divorce dh orce The main ground in fact about the only ground for divorce for either a or a wife is infidelity The result is that any number of cases are framed But Lord has done some soma plain speaking lie says sas it h itIs his it itis is cruel of the law to tie a man manor or ora a ft woman oman to a partner for life when hen that partner is a confirmed drunk ard It is a like cruelty to tie a aman aman aman man or a woman to a partner who Is 13 doing a long stretch in the peni penitentiary penitentiary for some crime But he did not touch upon another cruelly cruelty of the British law It Il ties a husband or a 11 wife ICe for life to a partner who Is hopelessly insane Insano and who is immured within the walls of a luna lunatic tic asylum England has many good women whose life lifo Is only halt half ha a 11 life lira Their husbands are aro either convicts in Ia prison or Insane men locked up In asylums It If l free to secure a a. di dl divorce vorce some good man probably would marry them They could build their lives anew They could have a 11 real home and children As AsIt AsIt It Ij Is they have to struggle along as ns best they can Some Somo of ot them give ghe up the fight and cease to be good And yet jet ct the English together with Ith ith other Europeans throw stones at our laws and say they arc are en entirely too lax |