Divorce

The blue book on marriage and divorce is said to contaiu singular facts, which may be regarded, however, as touchstones of civilization. In Russia, for instance, people may not wed a fonrth time nor after they are 80 years old. In France the wife whose husband objects seriously to her going on the stage makes herself Hable to divorce by persisting iu her artistic desire. In Gsrmany and Roumania "insuperable aversión" is enough. But in Portugal civilization tonohes the high water mark. There if a wifepublishesliterary works without the husband 's consent