Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1890 — An Old Swiss Divorce Custom. [ARTICLE]

An Old Swiss Divorce Custom.

Chicago News. Until within a few years a curious custom has obtained in Switzerland. When husband and wife expressed a desire for a divorce they were required to enter a room and live therein together for a fortnight, during which time they were neither to see nor to converse with anybody else; their food was passed to them through a narrow opening in the wall, and all communication with the outside world was shut off. If, at the end of a fortnight of this confinement together, the couple still clamored for divorce.it was granted without further ado. Prof. William M. Sloane, of Princeton University, will contribute an article on “College Athletics” to the number of Harper’s Weekly published February 26 I A Lady In Sooth Carolina Writes: My labor was shorter and less paln’ul than on two lormer occasions, physicians astonished; I thank you for "aiothe.’E Friend." It is woith its weight in gold. Address The Bradfl-ld Iteg. Co.. At'anta, Ga., for particulars. Sold by druggists. The Hoe Press Company runs a trade-school for its apprentices. Th- Throat,—“Brown’s Bronchial Troches” act directly on the organs of the voice. The' have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat, ■ The sixteen hat factories in Danbury, Conn., employ 5,900 hands.

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