ear to ear. The instrument of death, a large carving-knife, was lying at her side. The bath-room is fitted up with Oriental splendor,
being
frescoed and decorated handsomely." The suicide was buried
next day, being conveyed from the Fifth-avenue mansion to the Grand Central Depot, and thence to Tarrytown, the place
of interment. The funeral procession consisted merely of the hearse carrying the body and one
carriage. It is a strange,
revolting story, carrying its
own warning and moral, besides furnishing an admirable instance of the unexpected forms in which the great Nemesis manifests herself. CHAPTER XVII. DIVORCE. _The Chicanery of Divorce Specialists--How Divorce Laws Vary
in Certain States--Sweeping Amendments Necessary--Illustrative Cases_. A large proportion of the marital infelicity now so alarmingly prevalent in this country is no doubt caused by the mal-administration of our divorce laws, and by the demoralizing
discord between the legislative statutes of the various States
on the subject
of divorce. While in the middle and a portion of the Eastern and Southern States, the conditions legally imposed, before a dissolution of marriage can
be judicially obtained, are wholesomely exacting and in accord with the strict Scriptural standard, in certain
of the Eastern,Southern and Western States the most trifling alle