MUTUAL SEPARATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 15076, 7 January 1913, Page 4

MUTUAL SEPARATIONS

A TABLE OF DOMESTIC WOE. Judge A\ illiam N. Gemmed, who had been sitting in the Domestic Relations Court in .Chicago for several weeks, told of the- things which, in his belief, eauso domestic woe and separation. The subjoined table arranged by him shows just what percentage of trouble is caused bv various sot reasons ; Per cent. YV.iing and hasty marriages 15 Hidden diseases 25 Interference of mothers-in-law ... 25 Interference of children in second marriages 15 Ungovernable temper 10 Whisky and drugs ]Q [‘lt is a sad commentary to make,” he said, “but it is a. fact that the average man walks off from his family, leaving them to starve, as soon as trouble enters bis home, without the slightest compunction. But, and I can’t emphasise this too strongly, it is a. high tribute to womanbond that, no matter what the conditions are, a. mother docs not desert her chiMren. Of course liquor and drugs play a good part in making trouble, but for the most part it seems to mo it is just pure cussedness on the part, of the husband. Not, that all women are perfect, far from it. but the average woman is certainly bettor than the average man.”