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OUR DIVORCE LAWS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Jan 9, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 2.

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OUR DIVORCE LAWS.

A Good Illustration.

THE Census Taker.—Your name, mum?
"I don’t know."
"Beg pardon, mum?"
"I’ve been divorced. At present, my name is Mrs. Jones in this state. In several states it is Miss Smith, my maiden name, and in three states it is Mrs. Brown, my first husband’s name."
"This your residence, mum?"
"I eat and sleep here, but I have a trunk in a neighboring state, where I am getting a divorce from my present husband."
"Then you’re married at present?"
"I’m married in Texas, New York, and Massachusetts; divorced in South Dakota, Missouri, Alaska, Oklahoma, and California; a bigamist in three other states, and a single woman in eight others."—Chicago Tribune.