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Show DIVORCE FIGURES IN EARLY HISTORY Chicago. Jan. 10. I'' the city of Babylon during the reign oi Hammu-Rabl, Hammu-Rabl, about 2230 B. C, divorce with alimony was a common occurrence, I according to the Be v. Samuel A. B. Mercer of the Western Theological emlnary, who ha- just completed translations of Babylonian Cuneiform inscriptions. "Prominent members of clubs figured fig-ured In divorce courts and scandals furnished the city with gossip," he says "Having been granted a divorce a man would pay liberal alimony to bis wire and publish tho information that should any one marry the divorcee di-vorcee he would not object " The Saraas-Babl "case" is pointed out as one which caused In all probability prob-ability a sensation. A, court room -cen. i - described in which Mrs. Ha-ramtum Ha-ramtum Samas-Kabi, handsomely clad : in silk and wearing many diamonds and sapphires, at a dramatic moment j during the proceedings, and pointing , her index finger at Mr, Samas-Ra'.i. cried "You are not my husband!" And then and there the case was .closed, the woman being granted the I i alimony she demanded. |