Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — MUST LIVE WITHIN INCOME [ARTICLE]

MUST LIVE WITHIN INCOME

Judge Refuses to Grant a Divorce to a Wife Who Charges She Was Subjected to Qruelty. Franklin, Pa. —That it is the right of a husband to insist that his wife keep the family’s expenditures well within his income was a rule laid down here by Judge George S. Criswell in refusing to grant to Mrs. Laura F. Sylvester, of Oil City, a divorce from William W. Sylvester. The wife asked for a decree on the ground of cruelty, and at the hearing it developed that their troubles wire largely financial, the husband restricting the wife’s expenditures for the family to a sum within his income. In discussing this phase of the case Judge Criswell said: “The husband had upon him the burden of the family maintenance. His Income, while fair, was limited, and it was only reasonable on his part to Insist that proper relation should be maintained between such income and the family expenses. The failure to preserve it could "resultln his humiliation and loss of caste and standing for business integrity among his associates and in the community, something highly prized by a man of principle and honor.’