Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1915 — Cold-Blooded Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Cold-Blooded Marriage.

Kansas City, Mo., July 6.—A girl in town had a proposal of marriage and asked a week to consider it before filing her answer, testified T. A. Sawhill. She then organized herself into an investigating committee and commenced taking testimony from the married ladies of her acquaintance. The first one she visited used to be a belle and the most admired girl in the town before she was married six years ago,’ The cross-examination brought out the fact that she had three children, did all her own work, including her washing and ironing, and hadn’t been downtown for four weeks, and that her husband had given her but $2 since she was married, and that he had borrowed and forgot to pay back $lO which her brother once gave her for a Christmas present. He bought a new overcoat with the money, while she wore the same plush coast she wore when he was courting her. Another woman whom she visited quit teaching school three years ago to marry “the handsomest and bestdressed man in town,’’ and she ds now supporting him, A third didn’t dare say her soul was her own when her nusband was around, though she used to write some lovely essays when she was at school on “The Emancipation of Woman,” and the fourth woman she visited was divorced. After visiting them and summing tip the evidence she went home and wrote to the young man. She will be married to him next month.