Chicago, Sept. 5—The divorce “evil” is on the decline, according to Judge Walter P. Steffen, of the court of domestic relations in Chicago. He accounts for its tobogganing by saying that young people in this country, as in others, are getting over the mania for hasty marriages. The mania reached its zenith during the world war, he explained, when quite a number of young women married a “uniform” rather than the man inside it, only to discover subsequently that her husband, attired in “civies,” did not please her.
Judge Steffen also reiterated, and that quite emphatically, an old maxim, to wit: “There are few divorces where the tying of the nuptial knot has been preceded by a prolonged and genuine courtship.”
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Sept. 5, 1923.
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