San Antonio Evening News from San Antonio, Texas • Page 19

1 ivorces The I jSSw Less Costume the More Evidence Seems to Be the Rule When Breach of Promise and Divorce Cases Come to Court, Though One Judge Did Hold That a September Morn Pose Was Really to Be Considered as High Art Mrs. Jack Young, Accused in Divorce Proceedings of Posing as September Morn. Mrs. Marguerite Connery Rose, Who Won a Divorce Decree After a Maid Told of a "Beauty in Filmy Pajamas" in the Rose -Home While Mrs. Rose Was Nut.

OW the crop of Nineteen-twenty-two Bathing Suit divorces! Old Judge Here and Old Judge Yonder, and many another fusty Jurist in between who do not know the first wee thin? about modes in line and color, and how a frill can be placed to the best advantage, listening to long, long tales of daintiness in silk and tnohair and even calico, for that once humble fabric pleased the feminina--and mayhap the masculine--fancy all this long summer. These jurists who would be quite, quite lost in the least of tnosa emart shops where bathing-suits are sold, listening and judging and saying what will be what all because of those same suits! Though there are others, notably the husbands or nances of the wearers of the suits--and sometimes the wives of friends of the wearers of the suits--who do say that it's not what there is of those same suits that goes to trial.so often as it's what there isn't of them! This is the charge they bring in open court against the demurely garments designed for purposes of swim- ding and not vamping: "That they are becoming the chief visible fcause for divorce in this country, and that they not always visible. That they separate morn husbands and wives, break up more homes, causa more unhappiness than any other piece of frivolity in ali this country! Simple Addition the Remedy "That if there were more of each one in all three dimensions tnere might be cessation of September farewell-tc-thc-family-life after a three- month period of freedom. "Wherefore the complainant begs thatbathing- tuits will be ordered higher at the top and longer at the bottom and perhaps made of flannel or something convincing and ugly!" Now, whether these'charges are well founded or not, plenty of cases are coming along to make it seem that the bathing-suit is guilty of mischief at least. The Faulkner family is one whose domesticity has been completely ruined by Mrs.

Doris Faaik- ner's taste in undies. Though that lovely littla laiy says that it was not the pink envelope which appears to be clasping her dainty self in a certain photograph, but a 1922 model bathing-suit that caused all the fuss. Hubby Faulkner formerly was an officer in the Army Air Service. He had become accustomed, it appears, to the dignities and restraints imposed upon what is per- Miss Helen Armstrong and the Costume She Wore Just Once Before Her Fiance Broke Their Engagement. Now She Wants Heart Balm.

haps the most ceremonious and, to outward appearance, at least, conventional society in the world-the "army set." He was ambitious for himself, but more so for his vivacious nineteen-year-old wife. There's a time in every marriage, however, when the young wife finds that-her home lacks newness and therefore romance. She begins to feel out of things, what with all her friends pursuing their hobbies while she has forgotten that there are such things in her race for successful breakfasts and unburned dinners. Nine times out cf ten she looks round for something to do. And this is what Doris Faulkner was about when her eyes chanced upon the program of an act staged by a bevy of beauties in North side Chicago garden.

Hubby did not think it proper an array officer's wife--specially when she was his own wife --to cavort on the stage. But he finally agreed that if she would "dress suitably" she might try it. And this is the way delicious Doris describes what happened: Another Photograph of Mrs. Doris Faulkner Which Her Hus- band Objected to Most Ve'hemently. Jack Young, Whose Parents Are Estranged, All Because His Mother Had Her Picture Taken.

A Mrs. Charlotte Gilchrist Said Her Photograph Was Merelv Art Whe Her Spouse Sued for Divorce. The Judge Agreed with Her. "I appeared in a bathing-suit-- one like you see every day on the beach. He stormed.

He grabbed me and jiear- tore it off, which made it worse." Just what that suit was like, specially with Mrs. Faulkner inside of it, probably never will be known, since it met with such untimely demolishment. However, hubby was said to raise quite as strenuous objection to a slip of a thing in she posed for her picture. And this was a garment greatly resembling Gunga Din's uniform, in that it was "nothing much before and a iittie less than arf o' a behind." Whatthera was of it was held up by a couple of slim shoulder straps; there was a. hem of sorts midway of knees and hips.

He objected so emphatically to this that Doris walked into court and asked a divorce. It wasn't the neglige that was narrow, she declared it was hubby's mind: "He's a smart town guy. He hasn't been weaned away from Main Street philosophy." The Circuit Court Judge, however, decided that Mr. Faulkner had a right to feel grouchy, all things considered, and refused the divorce. So the little lady of the broad mind started in to win her husband away from his narrowness.

Perhaps she used other and more daring bits of lingerie and saucier bathing suits, in her work of education. Anyway she met with such astonishing lack of success that she finally gave up in despair. Her second action for divorce now is pending. Mrs. Charlotte Gilchrist of Chicago may claim to be the original photographic September, Morn Newspaper Service, 1922.

Mrs. Doris Faulkner in the Attire Which Her Husband Raised a Scene About and Which Caused Her to Ask Divorce from Him as a "Small Town Guy." dragged into court. Her husband, Lawrence Gilchrist, found a picture of herself which she had posed for before the eyes of one Carl Ruegge. a photographer. Her husband declared that presenting such a "picture" to another man was tantamount to forgetting one's marital obliga-' tions.

So he asked Judge Sabath of the Chicago Diyorce Court to rid him of her. saitr that the posing was just "high art" and the judge evidently agreed, for he dismissed the husband's suit. The pictures went into the court records, however. Despite the'fact that Ms nerve in performing photographic feats has won him the title of "Daredevil," and also despite long and thorough-going residence in Now York, where skirts are short and winds high and one sees what one sees, Jack R. Young J3 another of those husbands who can't and won't stand the sight of any member of the bath-set family appearing- upon the attractive person of Irma, his wife.

This means that his distaste for such airy trifles upon his nearest relative by marriage is subject to time and place, and her state of aloneness. example, he is particularly opposed to her standing' before a camera, when it is not his camera, in a bathing- suit or an envelope. So deiidsd is his antipathy to this arrangement that he believes in telling the' divorce judge about it. But he considers it worse --oh far' think of posing before tho camera WITHOUT any such lilting lingerie! Who Snapped the Camera? And this is what Irma did, according to the counter-action for divorce this film camera roan filed in answer to the one she brought against him. Irma admitted that she also was seen thus by the camera's unforgetting eye.

But, she contended, it was not the photographer but his nance who snapped her! The fluff and ribbons tangle of the Youngs and Faulkners is not very different from the tribulations of another couple, though this third oair will have no recourse to the divorce, court, for thev had not ever, the opportunity to get mar- before the dishabille disagreement came along and knocked their romance for a row of rinned seams. He is Marecbal Tissot, a retired French officer, and she is Helen Armstrong, a cafe dancer of great beauty of figure and face. Helen donned a little suit--a bathing costume. At least she faid it was a bathing costume. Truth is, there WES hardly enough of it to establish positive identification.

Anyway, Helen donned the suit, which may be described as a little of this and less of that, and a smile. Straight away, according to her account of the affair M'sieu declared that their engagement was off He declared it emphatically. She sued him for S50.000 for breach of promise. It is not only husbands, however, who ars overtaken by trouble when the frills-and-flounees hang themselves upon the person of the wife, and look so charming that she needs must betake herself to the seaside to give all there assembled a treat. Quite as frequently they stir Up contention for ihe wife.

Within ihe past few weeks the divorce courts of Chicago have been crowded by wives who protested against the the bodice and bloomer combination, so ingenuous in theory and sophisticated in reality. Mrs. Marguerite Connery Rose, daughter of John Connery, millionaire owner of the Edgewater Beach Hotel, recently won a divorce rom, Dr Charles M. Rose because he participated in pajama parties, according toiler testimony. Ono euch party figured in the story told by a maid employed in the Rose home.

Mrs. Rosa was in Palm "Beach, said the maid, and she was going about her duties when she chanced to glanca toward an upper hall. There she saw a lovely lady whom she not know, she said, cross t.lo 'corridor, moving from one bedroom to the other. The beauty was clad not in anything substantial as a bathing-suit, but in filmy' pajamas. The maid's indicated that the trousiea and jacket were delightful to look upon, and worthy attire for almost any party..