Judge — February 4, 1888 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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SUDG HE Michigan for keeping a dog. Utah because you want to, And so it goes. Thus it beomes neccessary to seek out the isothermal line that will hit your cause of grie nd then start for th ubrigns clime, This immense trav: 1 relief has built up the rail way tem of the countr a ional divorce law would n grass grow on many prosperous railways and hair grow on many bald heads. Thusa sad, broken-hearted woman can do a legal peri patetic business from sta tate and avoid paying rent, likea Maine prohibitionist with sloon in a wheelbarrow. I only wonder thi after a woman has had three or four husbands they do not mat: take out a license and do business in the regular way. Yes, but about the album?” said Gibbs the Bohem nm. “Why, you see, Miss Pinkerson kept an album with pictures of the successive victims and the state in which the divorce was granted and the dates of the decrees. and also the dat n which several cases tep and a downcast look. would be decided. Two were yet pending, and she lost the book sand His hair had been cut short and his everything is all mixed up. W! ive { she might marry tw rd shaved off in preparation for his same man twice if she had no picture, ‘and if she had no dates sor nuptials, which gave his ragged fea- the ‘marriages might: 1 tures the apped aN ‘ = — ~ > over on to the others and shire cause suits for bigamy. over it. He 1 put on his office inigone ta Ulah now to get coat, and a bundle of the Columbia general divoree from County Clarion stuck out of one everybody, and if the Mor. pocket. He had evidently wiped his vr mons do not. pick her up she is com ing back to marry me. a ce with the office towel. He “Pe ps,” said the president, 3 e the desk to attract at- tention, “it would be well to offer the e atulations of the club to gs on his approachi m - ‘Tam not happy. Happiness ix not approaching. Happiness isa mockery. Henceforth Tum wed- y pro’ in, and no sie are necessary to those nuptials -only the usual large bnormal pumpkin laid on the She ts far from the land where her young Sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing But I shall not wait for her. In this uncertainty of Without from partial beauty w 4 American divorce law * I Ob, what 7 A world without a sun,* \ | grope helplessly, and I want ‘| to find an eligible widow with seven small childre that look alike. These co posite pictures in the Cen tury are good but would be bewildering in. a family Let me close in poetry “The wedding is‘off, Lam off, everything is off. You see before you a victim of American divorce huw. A hush fell on the assemblage like a November fogon a greenback mass meeting, until Holme Stretch, the professional liar, asked the ir if it would be out of order for Mr. Skaggs to unbosom himself to the club. Silently the awe-stricken president nodded assent * Perhaps,” stid Skaggs in a trembling voice, a did not know a that Miss Pinkerson had been divorged. ct, very much so, from pivtncchdihestdrry hi dealalimees nine different men, the most of whom are living at the present time. * Stop: said Skages For on love's highway I'm afraid When her affections settled on me she confessed that I had not wou Tm but a amall way station her virgin affections, but would have to take my chances on what cold” Berke, trom flower to Hower youdart, “Hard, hard the future that 1 see ctuals were left in the cupboard of her emotions. I wassatistied some Ha yous callous best Wiel iteas eae pie was leftand did not demur. That woman has talent and would mi catch a string of mullet You live on alimony. take charge of the literary and obituary part of my paper, and all went —* You may forget, I never can! © Farewell, sweet widow, wife, or maid merry as—but that is ‘shop.’ Well, theday. was appointed when all at Love, "akeord will not slumber, elareret on justice trampies once she found she had lost her album, and all was off.” Here Skaggs , "You'll know me by the numts gi lope blab einer alys lifted a corner of his coat and removed a tear. “Tean see “Tf it would not be too much, may Task what analbumhadtodo ow much Ie you have suf- uy firey ered by the ‘ A cui horrible AN quality of 2 {Mla pur verse,” said the pres- ident, “E mov said Gibbs, “that we all go over and spend New- year's Eve with Brother Skaggs and cheer him up. All who sympathize © She had loat her album. with him : and. will be with your happiness 7” and the president leaned farover the desk with on hand say deep interest.” “Aye.” Hare not up on modern divorce,” stid Skaggs. A ation of isa necessary adjunct of the woman of blighted affections, Divorced SER 12 486 from nine men, the business of avoiding trouble t complicated. the. rout In New York divorce is granted for principal onnecticut business wa: for any cause. In New Jersey for cold feet. In Indiana for snoring, resumed. ss nnow—“ Say, John! with the game laws off till yest ol pring Denis Ks in town, d better bie @ Wisconsin for incompatibility. Tllinois for warts or being reelfooted. Pied (rg Pieper ea ce Tk | comicbooks.com