p. 16 | A Dollar a Year in Alimony

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 29, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 22.

A Dollar a Year in Alimony

The courts sometimes show extraordinary common sense combined with exceedingly dry humor. For instance, in an Ohio city the other day there was tried the case of a man who made application for divorce from a rich wife, with alimony. He married his wife on her proposition, and had been receiving from her $150 a year, cigars, neckties, and other gifts. The court refused to grant the divorce, but decided that he was entitled to alimony, and fixed it at $1.00 (one dollar) a year. It certainly was, on general principles, all that the man was worth. The decision of the court was doubtless nearer his true worth than the estimate of his wife. But when a man gets to be so low that he can sell himself so cheaply, he is bound to deteriorate in value.