Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1901 — MARRIAGE A FAILURE. [ARTICLE]

MARRIAGE A FAILURE.

Mother of a Large Family Seeking a Divorce from Husband. According to Mrs. Josephine Ormsby of Chicago, who is a mother of quadruplets, and also of a total of fourteen children in seven years, marriage is a failure. She is suing her husband for a divorce, alleging desertion and cruelty. The fourteen Ormsby children embrace two sets of twins, one set of triplets, one set of quads and three who arrived alone. “No more marriage for me,” said Mrs. Ormsby, as she looked down on the four sleeping midgets. “I don’t intend to get married again and don’t need to. I have received hundreds of letters from men asking if I would accept their hands. The letters all went into the stove. Some of them actually offered to put up the money for a divorce, but I am through.”