THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 5. 1920.
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"Jazz" and "Nagging" Rank High Among
Chief Causes for the Shocking Number of
"Divorces One to Every Three Marriages
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By A. R. GROH.
v "Jan" marriages, "calf" manages,
war marriages and '.'snap" marriages
are chiefly responsible for the shock
ing number of divorces in Douglas
county, Nebraska, the divorce cen
ter of the universe, where there is a
divorce for every three marriages!
This is the solemn judgment of
the judgrs before whom comes the
never-ending procession of husbands
and wives seeking freedom.
The "jazz" marriage is like this:
Burt meets Gladys at a dance,
with or without a formal introduc
tion. "Gee, but he's a swell dancer."
Gladys tells Tessie, her fellow cleric
at the dime store, the next day,
"Some baby doll!" iftorrnurs8rt
to himself next day, as he ffjwcs
over his laundry route. f
m And so they get married. t .
And the Calf Kind.
Gladys soon finds that dancing is,
after all, not a very important ac
complishment in married life. Bert
discovers that Glady's spit curls look
very different-over a badly cooked
dinner than they did at the dance.
And so they start quarreling and
the divorce follows in a few weks
or months.
The "calf" marriage goes thus:
Aswald (aet. 18) meets Dolly. 17.
Both are young and in each other's
eyes, exceeding fair. Also unso
phisticated and green as the grass
that grows in the dell. Oh, much
greener.
But the poor litMe squirts feel the
first stirrings of that divine passion,
which, if allowed to grow, might
blossom into something worth while.
Then They Wake Up.
And, not having any mental bal
ance or self-control, they run away
one Saturday afternoon with $14 be
tween them, lie about their ages and
get married. -
Then thev wake up. Outraged
parents rush into the courts and doJ
what they can to get the silly blun
der corrected. I
The war marriage has come in for
much comment. Young chaps, sta
tioned here and there, in military
camps, far from home, lonely, met
eirls and, thii.k'ng the- wer- ?oing
"across" and perhaps would" never
come back, decided in their unnatu
t'al mental states to get married, did
get married and now are getting di
vorced in large numbers.
The "snap" marriage goes thus:
Gets "Carried Away."
Pete Dickenheimer gallops into the
Bumble Bee cafe for dinner, le's
just in off the ranch. A waitress
smiles at him. She is different from
the plain girls back home, he thinks.
Pete is "carried, away."
"What do you say, we get mar
ried'" he propounds.
The waitress is tired of working
and figures that "these rubes has all
kinds o' coin."
"You look good to me, says she.
They proceed to the court house
together. The license is issued, the
judge ties, the knot and that eve
ning Pete is on hi way homr vith
his bride to the ranch that he loves.
Farnara Street Lights.
But to the bride there is no charm
in the ranch. She longs for the
.'leshpots.oj Egypt. theHsright lights
of Farnam .street, the movies, taxi-i
cabs, cafes, street cars and the rest
of it.
"If I'd o' known you was bring
ing me to this graveyard I'd never
have married you," says she.
"You knew I was a rancher,"
Pete comes back. "Did you think
nsy ranch was in the middle of a
city?"
"Well, I'm going back," says the
bride.
"Well. I ain't," says Pete. May
be he gives her carfare. Maybe,
not.
The divorce follows in due sea
son. And, if Pete has money, his
little snap marriage is apt to cost
him half his ranch.
Marriages of normal nature end
in the divorce courts for various
reasons, principal among which, ap
parently, is poverty, according to
the records.
This preponderance of divorces
among the poor, however, is due,
very likely, to the fact that there
are so many more poor people than
rich oii(f. By far e great num
ber of divorces are granted without
alimony because the parties con
cerned have no property.
Wealth, indeed, may be the direct
cause of divorce. There is the case
of Mr. and Mrs. B. They lived for
15 years happily in a small town in
western Nebraska. Then wealth
flowed into their coffers. They built
a handsome home. The wealth de
manded considerable business travel
by the husband. He got to ,the fine
hotels of the big cities. He drove
a fine car. -Here
Comes the Vamp.
And the "vampires"' of the city
looked with favor upon him and up
on his loose bankroll He drove
with them in his car.
In time, news of this filtered
through to his faithful wife in the
small town. Frantically she set de
tectives on his trail. The-husband
found this out. Mutual confidence
va$ shattered. She sued for a di
vorce and got it, toguher with $50,
OOf alimony. '
The'other" man or woman is the
cause of many mor divorces than
the local court records confess.
Here :s a typical case and an ex
ample of why the "other" woman or
man doesn't appear in the court
records:
Charles and Margaret are happily
married. They have been married
tor six years and have a son, 4 years
old.
In Charles' office is a beautiful
stenographer. She has fresh, pink
cheeks, lovely, limpet! tyes and her
hair curls lovingly clown over her
forehead as she take daily dictation.
She: wears all'tring crt pe de chine
waists and "she knows how much it
is best to show" of her snowy
bosom. Her silk stockings and
French slippers complete the pretty
picture.
A good girl, mind you, but with
enough of Eve about her to court
admiration even from married men.
"You're looking mighty sweet to
day, Dorothy," breather Charles one
day after he has finished sonic dicta
tion. Dorothy blushe'.
There is Only One End.
"Oh, you mustn't say such things,
Mr. Blank," she murmurs, and
hastens from the room to primp
some more. And next day, you can
bet your bottom dolur, she doesn't
dc anything to look less "sweet."
After this has gone on for some
time it goes farther. And when it
has gone farther both persons find it
impossible tfstop.
Mrs. Blank notices the differenc:
in her husband's manner toward her.
The "fat is in the fire." And then
one evening, in desperation, he con
fesses". "I'm going to divorce you and I'm
going to name that girl as co-respondent,"
exclaims 'the outraged
wife. .
"That will be nice for our boy,"
grumbles Mr. Blank.
Ah, yes, the boy!
Leave It to "Bunk."
"Now, I'll tell you the best way,"
says Mr. Blank. "You go to Bunk,
the lawyer. He'll put it through all
right and nobody will ever know
I'll arrange the alimony so that
you'll be fixed comfortably."
And that divorce suit will be filed
with a mere allegation by the wife
of "cruelty" withoutany details. The
"triangle" will be completely con
cealed. "Answer day" having come ""and
passed without an answer by the
husband, Mrs. Blank travels up to
the court hause with Bunk, the law
yer. Theystep before a judge. Mr.
Blank is not present.
"He has been notified," says Bunk.
"My husbafTd has been cruel,"
says Mrs. Blank. "Once he swore
at me."
"Ever strike you?" asks the judge.
"Yes. I think he did, onci, slapped
me a little."
The judge writ.s a few words in
his docket and the divorce is
granted.
Then there is the mother-in-law
cause of divorce.
It is a strange fact that mothers
despite all their wisdon-and know
ledge of the children they bring up,
seldom learn that they should not
live with their daughters after they
have married.
"No house in the world is big
enough for a married couple and the
parents of either of them," one of
the judges of the local district bench
has declared repeatedly.
"Sloppiness" on the part of either
husband of wife has started many a
divorce. Having seen the "loved
one" only 'when all "dolled up" be
fore marriage, the shock of. seeing
him or her after marriage, unshaven,
uncombed, unwashed or in slovenly
attire is oftenva fatal blow to the
tender flower of love. And, although
slovenliness is "not a legal ground
for divorce, it soon leads to those
things which are legal grounds.
Nagging is Cruel
"Nagging" is alleged in manjr di
vorce petitions as reason for divorce.
It is recognized in the Nebraska
law, too. It comes under the gen
eral head of "cruelty." "'Nagging"
is just as cruel as a blow of the fist,
in the eyes of the law.
The "wanderlust" is also respon
sible for many a divorce. Bill, who
has married Harriet .in the fall,
feels the "call of the road" in the
spring. He's tired of the bonds of
matrimony already and longs for
freedom. And, being a person with
out property, without a sense-of re
sponsibility or decency, he takes to
the open road, and in due lime this
deserted wife gets hgj legal separa
tion. These be the rocks and shoalj and
whirlpools, the hurricanes and ty
phoons that threaten the gorod ship
"Matrimony" when it puts out upon
the high seas, bound for the haven
of "Happiness."
The appalling fact is that in
Douglas county one matrimonial
ship out of every' three is totally
wrecked.
How many arrive at the pott of
Happiness" nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
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of her trip around the world, be
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