Dear Mr. Sir—“South Dakota are now very strickted & respecktable,” say Cousin Nogi with expression of deep glum. “Only choice, selected persons is permitted to get divorces there.”
“What must these choice, selected persons do now to obtain such a privilege?” are queery for me.
“A gentleman wishing to be entirely divorced in Sue Falls must reside there one year & must be drunk at leastly ¾ of time. He must beat his wife occasionally to prove it.”
“If he pass such examination will he then obtain ticket of leave?” are next I ask to know.
“Scarcely already,” are corrode from Nogi. “Firstly he must possess a certificate signed by 2 Aldermans or 6 State Senators showing that he enjoys a famous record for bad moral character, that he have allepeptick fits & served at leastly 1 year in some good penitentiary. If he got such papers he are permitted to be lonesome again.”
“Few persons has sufficient talent to pass such a high test,” I submit.
“Howeverly, many persons will try,” say Nogi for knowledge.
“With that strick law So. Dakota will soonly become one of them blissful married States,” I dally forth.
“So sad to think it will,” say Nogi with W. J. Bryan elbows. “Thusly are greatest landmarks of America departing off. Niagara Falls & Sue Falls, grand gushing monuments of Fourfathers’ pride, both is being swep away by toothless hand of commerce. No longer can pressed & weary persons turn feetprints to South Dakota like Pilgrum Fathers——”
“Why were a person what went to South Dakota like a Pilgrum Father?” I erupt with voice.