Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1912 — SHE BALKED AT SIXTEENTH [ARTICLE]

SHE BALKED AT SIXTEENTH

Wife Willing to Cook for FJfteen Boarders, But No More—Files Suit for Divorce. \ Muncle, Ind. —Here is the point that Judge Frank Ellis of the circuit court mus decide: 13 a wife, who Is caring for the wants of fifteen boarders, justified in rebelling when her husband insists that she shall also cook for the sixteenth and take care of his rooms? Has the husband, on her refusal, the right to threaten her with physical violence? The suit Is that of Sarah against Charles Williams for divorce. Mrs. Williams says that she is willing to take care of fifteen boarders and roomers, and asked for no assistance, but the sixteenth boarder was the figurative straw that broke the camel’s back. On the Introduction of the sixteenth boarder she says she rebelled, and that the husband cursed and abused her.