DIVORCE IN AMERICA.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11998, 26 July 1907, Page 4

DIVORCE IN AMERICA.

The second Mrs James G. Beaine, • known as tbe "Heliotrope Belle of Washißgton" six years ago, secured a divoroe in South Dakota in record time last month, after " residing ia fc | tbe State one day over the statutory period of six months. Determined to spend Christmas with her parents, Admiral and Mrs Hitcbborne, she induced the judge to take the case at seven in the evening. With torrential eloquence she told of her failure to reform the son of the late Presidential candidate. She married him on 4th July, 1901. was deserted, and lived with her parents for two years. t Thejjudge sympathetically cut the story short and pronounced the decree. The petitioner hurrried out, entered a waiting carriage, and just caught the eight o'clock east-bound flier, although she had a moment before sworn that she intended to I make South Dakota her permanent home. The first Mrs Blame went through a precisely similar experience at Sioux Falls in 1592. By an odd coincidence "Mr D*ooley" makes a laughable contribution on American divorce in the "New York Times": "Till death us do part," says the preacher. "Or th' jury," whispered ,th' blushing bride. 'In Nebraskf, " continues Dooley, "th' shackles are busted because father forgot to wipe his boots; in New York because mother knows a judge in South Dakota. "The laws ought to bo the samo everywhere. Army m.in ought to be able to get divoorce with alimony siraply^by ruaki.n' an affidavit that th' lady's face has grown too bleak for his taste. "Be hivins, llinnissy, I'd go farther; I'd let army man escape be jumpin' th' conthract. " "What do ye raaly think?" asked Mr Hinnessy. "I think," said Dooley, "if people wanted to be divorced I'd let them, but I'd give tho children th' custody iv th' parents. They'd lam thim to behave."