Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1874 — Twice Married. [ARTICLE]

Twice Married.

M. H. B. writes to the St. Louis Republican: “ There are tragical, comical and common-place divorce suits, and the following certainly is as comical as any on record. A young couple ten years ago agreed to disagree, and she of the firm went West to the Eldorado of discontented wives in those days, Chicago. Then she commenced suit, but before it was granted he went on, made up the peace between them, and hand in hand they returned. Before the year was out, however, they quarreled again, and this time he didn’t reach her quick enough; the bill passed, and as a divorced woman she resided in Boston for five years. Then in an idle hour she answered a matrimonial or a personal in a New York paper, corresponded some months, journeyed on to this city to meet the Adolphus of her mature dreams, and found in him the Ichabod of her early days. They had lied So faithfully in their letters and so unanimously that neither had discovered the other’s identity. Whether the deception had cast a new light on the subject, or whether they were convinced that in all the world they couldn’t each find a fool like the other, at any rate once more they mated. A second wedding and a secondhand honeymoon ensued. But the husband speedily began to rehearse to ffis charmer what he considered her folly in answering anonymous advertisements, and, instead of retorting, as she properly could, to the anonymous advertiser, she wept and he bullie’d, and on lime dragged till last summer, when they separated, and this spring a suit for divorce was commenced. The parties are both wealthy; Mr.'—“—lives in fine style at an up town hotel and attends to his law business; Mrs. Stops with a sister in Brooklyn. Four hearings in the suit have taken place before a referee. At the close of the fourth, behold the belligerent pair went to Delmonico’s to lunch together. The anxiety and excitement of the lawyers were something dreadful to witness. This case has so much money in it, has already dragged its slow length over so much time, has so many beautiful features, and perhapsthat nightmare of the legal profession, reconciliation, nlay step in and spoil all." —ln Naples a barber will shave, cut hair, comb, brush, black boots, and give you a cigar, and call it square, for ten cents. »