“TAX-OL,” the perfect liquid polish, promptly produces high lights on floors and furniture. Preserves leathershines inn shoes. Latest statistics show that the l niced States has the highest divorce rate of all the. civilised nations. One in eight of its marriages; is dissolved by the courts. Last year 1.000.000 marriage? were contracted throughout the country, and the divorce court? made la-LOOf) decrees. From these figures agitators for a retorni cl the marriage and divorce laws point out that sd.hOO “• divorce orphans" are created yearly in the. United States and that more than £11.000.00) is expended each year for the care of children horn o? parents who ought not to have been allowed to marry. For these evils they place the chief responsibility on the looseness and variability of the marriage and divorce laws in the different. Stales, which encourage hasty and ill-consider-ed matches and permit couples to migrate from one divorce court to another, and to obtain decrees on any one of a score of flimsy pretexts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1923, Page 4
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167Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1923, Page 4
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