Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1894 — Queer Causes of Divorce. [ARTICLE]

Queer Causes of Divorce.

New York Sun. A Jersey wife secured a decision because “the husband, the defendant, sleeps with a razor under his pillow to frighten this plaintiff." A Virginia woman was set free because “the defendant does not come home until 10 p. m., and then keeps this plaintiff awake talking." A Tennessee court liberated a wife because “the defendant does not wash himself, thereby causing the plaintiff great mental anguish.” A Missouri divorce was granted because the “defendant goes gadding about, leaving this plaintiff supperless, or if he gets any he has to cook it himself." A New York man pleaded in hie petition for divorce that “the defendant would not sew on this plaintiff’s buttons, neither would she allow him to go to fires at night." ‘ The court decided that the plaintiff was entitled to a decree on the ground that this oppression was cruel and inhuman. An Ohio man has secured a divorce because, as he declared under oath, “the defendant pulled this plaintiff out of bed by his whiskers." Out in Illinois a wife secured a decree because her husband threw the baby at her when she hit him with the coal bucket for spitting on the stove. A Connecticut man got a divorce on the ground that “the defendant would not get up in the morning nor call this plaintiff, nor do anything he was told."