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DIVORCE RATIO MOT INCREASING, JUDGE ASSERTS * proportion to Population jt; Constant Enough to g Cause No Alarm. ' CHICAGO, June 22.—Alarm over the divorce situation in America is Unnecessary, since divorce has increased very little more in percentage than has population. So says Judge Joseph Sabath, torho has heard more than 31,000 (divorce petitions while serving in the Cook County courts. “We are always seeing figures about the huge increase of divorce,” Judge Sabath said, “but while in the last fifteen years there has been some increase over the growth in population, it has not been enough to be alarming. Even in the old days, When conventionality barely countenanced divorce, marriage was not Jnuch less than a 10 to 100 shot. f Hits Trial Marriages "Today Government figures show that fifteen out of 100 marriages fail. Considering the increase in population, that isn’t such a bad record. “We have innumerable reasons for this increase, too. For many years after any war certain conditions exist that do not last even one generation. I guess a lot of people will say ‘there goes the same old alibi about the war, but It is the truth and has much to do .With present-day marital conditions. “I smile at .the very term 'companionate marriage.’ Why should the most sacred venture in the life of any man or woman be placed on the same terms with buying an article on approval with the privilege of sending it back if you don’t like it. “Why, ft is such talk as that that is helping to increase divorce. In placing the blame for the increase in divorce I would give such publicity first place. In the second place is the craving for pleasure, both in old and young, and lack of home life. Idle Women Blamed “It is the increase in the divorces of the older people, married twenty years or more, that is the saddest phase of the question today. Night life and sudden riches are to take the blame there. “The third place goes to the Idle woman. Her class has increased tremendously in the last few years. I blame the men as much as the women for this because any man who marries a woman should start out with a home where the wife has at least a few duties. "He should demand more than a delicatessen supper and he should have some understanding that children will be expected fairly soon after marriage ” BEASTS GROW FASTEST Farm Animals in Day Equal Man’s Development in ‘ Year. KANSAS CITY, June 22.—Dr. Samuel Brody of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station has found that a young farm animal grows much faster than a young human. A child, according to Brody, grows but 10 per cent a year between the ages of 4 and 14. A young animal, such as a rabbit, calf or guinea pig, grows 1,000 per cent in a year or in one day grows as much as a human in one year. RICH, LIVED oFcHARITY Woman Leaves $17,500 After Being Kept by Friends. PHILADELPHIA, June 22.—After being supported by friends for three years, it was revealed on the death of Mrs. Katherine Brooks that she had a fortune in property and investments of $17,500. Because she jest no heirs, the estate will go to the Commonwealth.

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VIRGINIA BREWSTER is in love with an artists, NATHANIEL DANN, but she is tricked into promising to marry FREDERICK DEAN in one year if she fails to earn SIOO,OOO that ho alleges her father cheated him otit of. BREWSTER had lost his fortune before his death and VIRGINIA is left destitute. She pawns some of her jewelry and OLIVER CUTTER promises to invest the money for her. She seeks work without success. She discovers that she is being shadowed and suspects that DEAN has bribed tha agencies not to help her. OLIVER gains htr confidence) and shows her attentions which NIEL resents, but ther she does not like the familiarity with which his model, CHIRI, treats him. VIRGINIA is lucky enough to get a position which she Tikes. In the early autumn she is amazed when charged by CUTTER’S wife with trying to alienate his affections. She appeals to OLIVER to explain, and demands an accounting of her investments. Then he confesses that he has not made a penny for her, but that he is madly infatuated with her and will give her the hundred thousand if she will go away with him. She denounces his knavery and leaves, taking his secretary along, as her company has a better position to offer her. VIRGINIA is asked to go on a six-weeks’ cruise as hostess, but before giving her answer she goes lo see NIEL at his studio. His model greets her with such an air of proprietorship that VIRGINIA is angered and merely announces to NIEL her plan to sail soon, instead of asking his advice as she had intended. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XL THE next morning Nathaniel received a letter written on thick gray stationery. When he had finished reading it his face was much the hue of the paper. Several months’ use was promptly walked off the stretch of rug between his desk and the door. His coat would never hang the same again as a result of the force with which he kept thrusting his clenched hands into the pockets each time after taking them out to pick up the letter and read it over. He wasf torn on the wheel of doubt and jealousy, blindly hurt. Chiri’s words of the night before came back: “She won’t stick, Niel; she’s got money in her system.” And Virginia was proving it. Like a bird of passage she was following the sun to the warm south. She had done it she was the daughter of a rich farmer. Why not when it was offered her as a pleasant occupation? “Hell, that doesn’t prove anything,” Nathaniel told himself. “If it did there’d be a lot of sap husbands in the north every winter.” The letter on his desk proved something, though. It proved that Frederick Dean was the vilest scoundrel alive ... or it proved that Virginia was a cheat. “A rotten little cheat,” Nathaniel swore, and was sorry the next instant. He’d got to see her, though. God, he’d die if he had to live with this doubt all day! He looked at his watch. He had been looking at it every other minute since it had told him he could not reach Virginia before she left her hotel. Five minutes of nine! A girl with money lust wouldn’t be early to work, he thought contemptuously. His suspicion was uppermost at this moment. He wasn’t a fool—everything had gone to prove Dean was right. Oh, yes, he could see now that she had offered some damned thin excuses on the nights she had wanted to get rid of him. Get'rid of him to sneak off to Cutter—the wealthy young broker. Laughter rasped In Nathaniel’s throat. The laugh of self that makes no sound except to the ears of the soul. Strange that he could speak so naturally when the switchboard operator at the Blue Capella answered. Stranger still that he could speak calmly to Virginia when .he heard her lovely voice. “Can you leave the office and come up to the studio?” he asked. “Why, Niel, what’s the matter?" “Can you come? I must see you.” Virginia hesitated. “1...’...1 was out yester ” then she stopped, remembering that he did not know about her visit to Oliver. ...“Won’t you tell me why you want to see me?” she added. "I know you were out yesterday,”

Nathaniel said, finishing the halted sentence for her. “I’d like to talk to you about that, and other things.” He heard a stifled cry and then the connection was broken. He swore as he hung up the receiver, wondering what had made him tell her that he knew. He hadn’t intended to. Small chance she would come now, knowing that he must be in possession of her secret. Nevertheless he waited in, and in less than an hour the knocker sounded at his door with a sum-, mons that was certainly not delivered with timidity. He sprang to answer it, though hardly believing it could be Virginia. He was prepared for her to come humbled oy guilt. There she stood. If she came like a penitent sinner, it was penitence she seemed to be proud of. “Well, what’s all the shooting about,” she asked, with a wide smile. Nathaniel gulped and for a moment the value of proof failed him. He held the door open without a word and Virginia walked in, her chin up, but not too high, and her manner one of eager inquiry. Nathaniel started to kiss her, but Virginia pulled away from him. “I want to know what’s wrong.” she said, not more than one pitch higher than she should have raised her voice to achieve the effect she desired—an effect of judgment held in abeyance. Nathaniel dropped his arms and Virginia saw his look of welcome fade. “I’ll tell you to begin with that I think all the evidence is against you,” he said honestly. Virginia looked at him squarely, and little did he guess that her heart held a prayer for his happiness. “I suppose you mean—where I was yesterday merning.” she said quietly. “How did you find out?” It was confession. She knew it. Meant it so. Better to get it over with qlickly. It would be useful now, too. A means to further the thing she had started at dinner. Curirig Nathaniel of love. Love for her. She wouldn’t have used such a cruel weapon as this from choice, but now that it had been put in her hands .. . Nathaniel would hate her. Well, think of him loving Frederick Dean’s wife! “It’s true, then,” ’Nathaniel said, in such an accusing, hopelessly heartbroken voice that Virginia resisted throwing herself into his arms only by an effort of will that she knew she never could make again. She walked away and sat down. “Just what’s true?” she came back, no longer able to smile. Nathaniel didn’t miss the smile, however. He’d have been amazed if anyone in her position had smiled. "I guess you know—about young Cutter!” he answered sharply. “Have you had a letter from Mr. Dean?” Virginia asked, leaning forward. Nathaniel started slightly. “You have,” Virginia went on. “The same kind he wrote to Mr6. Cutter, I suppose.” / Nathaniel was puzzled. He had not expected her to guess his source of information, let alone admit that Frederick Dean had informed others of the same affair. “Aren’t you being pretty brazen about it?” he said coldly. “Brazen?” Virginia repeated. “I don't ,'cnow what you mean by that, Niel. Unless you believe what Mr. Dean said.” “Haven’t you admitted it?” Nathaniel countered, more perplexed than ever. “I certainly haven’t admitted whet he made Jeanie Cutter believe,” Virginia declared, with unassumed warmth. “I have been seeing Oliver, yes; I can’t deny that, but I didn’t know that you meant to accuse me of having an affair with him!” She was on her feet now, hon-

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estly outraged. She had thought, when Nathaniel telephoned, that he wanted an explanation of her association with Oliver. She was convinced that Frederick Deap had told him of it, but she did not think that Nathaniel would believe what he said as Jeanie had. The use she had intended to make of the exposure was to make Nathaniel believe that she was tired of poverty and wanted money again. She had believed he would think she did not care to marry a poor man when she told him that Oliver had been trying to help her make money on the "Street.” She had wanted to make Nathaniel doubt her as a girl who could be happy without wealth. That doubt, she believed, Was enough to make him hate her. He did so scorn people whose god was gold. And now she hoped to destroy Nathaniel’s respect and thus his

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