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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks What happened was that a very wealthy woman asked for a divorce from her husband on account of him being, as she claimed, " too lazy to get a job." The woman is said to have inherited over a hundred million dollars. She testified in court that her husband wouldn't get out of bed until around noon, which seems to me like a mighty little thing to get a divorce on. If I ever marry a woman with a hundred million dollars I'm not going to get out of bed until I get good and ready, if then. What Happened The couple had been married less then two years and what I think happened was that the man was simply tired out from heavy courting and needed a long rest. It must be mighty strenuous, courting a hundred million bucks. He probably had to work extra hard all day long to pay for having his breeches pressed and shoes shined and all that, so he could take her out at night where he had to dine, wine and dance her until just before sunup. I certainly don't blame the fellow for refusing to take a job. It must be powerfully mortifying to come home on a Saturday night, waving a $65 check, less taxes, to a filthy-rich wife. The tragic thing about the entire affair, though, was that the woman got the divorce, plus a hundred dollars a month for support of their only child. What I'm trying to get across to you husbands is that you don't have a chance in court. If a woman with all that money can get a divorce, plus child support, because her husband wouldn't take a job, how do you figure you would come out? This particular case might establish a precedent in divorce courts and precedents can be, and usually are, very unfair things. For example, suppose this very night your wife asks you to do the dishes. Naturally, you're all sprawled out on the sofa, tired, sleepy and comfortable, so you refuse, as usual. Thereupon your wife goes to court and gets a divorce on the grounds of laziness, due to the precedent established in the California case of somebody versus somebody. So, you wind up losing you wife, children, and enough money to buy a washing machine and pay somebody to operate it. The same thing could happen when she wants you to mow the lawn, re-paint the screens or repair some furniture. You had sure better step around, from here on, when your wife asks you to do something. Pities Poor Man Somehow, I can't keep from feeling sorry for that poor fellow in Los Angeles. Now here is a frustrated, forlorn man! He went to a lot of trouble to marry a hundred million bucks, hoping to start living under conditions to which he was not accustomed, only to have his wife drive him out of bed at noon and force him to go out and look for a job. I'll bet she would have let him take a job driving a paper-wood truck for a living It would have been so easy for the wife to have found something around the house for her husband to do. He could have clipped coupons, hired butlers, ordered Cadillacs, figured out trips to Europe and zipped-up his wife's beautiful new gowns.
While this country is undoubtedly moving ahead in the rocket field, we sure are back-sliding in domestic affairs. What you husbands had better do is to have one of those high-level summit meetings.
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