Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1913 — Wouldn't Let Wife Eat With Him. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn't Let Wife Eat With Him.

Mrs. Lida L. James of Peekskill seriously objected to eating at the “second table,” even though so ordered to do by her husband, Herbert James, and so she went after a divorce. Furthermore, she got it. Supreme Court Justice Tompkins of White Plains had never heard of a marriage contract calling upon a wife to eat after her husband and children had devoured all the "white meat.” That’s why he was so generous with his divorce. James owns a summer resort comprising a 50-acre park. After a good -many years he grew tired of looking at his wife across the table and so ordered her to provide herself with material sustenance after the rest of them had pushed back the finger bowls.