Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — TOO PRETTY FOR POOR MAN [ARTICLE]

TOO PRETTY FOR POOR MAN

Husband Gets Divorce From Wife on Odd Plea—Couldn’t Purchase Autos and Other "Necessities.’’ San Francisco, Cal. —A wife with a comely countenance is too great a luxury for a, workingman, William J. Gallagher told Judge J. J. Van Nostrand In the superior court, while testifying in support of his complaint for divorce from Mrs. Blanche Gallagher. "I could not afford to pay for the automobiles with which she thought her good looks entitled her to be supplied,” said Gallagher. “She also thought she should wear clothes entirely too expensive for a man earning only 85 or 86 a day. I did the best I could, but she was too pretty for a poor man and became discontented.” After listening to the.husband's detailed recital of the wife’s necessities the court granted Gallagher’s petition..