"Marry Me or Walk!" She Stayed in Auto

1919

Woman Won by Cave Man Tactics Now Has Divorce.

"Barney and I went for a ride in the summer of 1917," said Mrs. Helen N. Lasky in a Chicago divorce court, "and he told me he would not bring me back unless we were married. So we went to Crown Point and were married."

"Did he later desert you," queried Judge Cooper.

"Yes," replied the witness. "He came back once and asked me to sign a paper, but I would not because I didn't know what I was signing.

"And," she continued, "one day I met him on the street and asked him to come back and live with me, but he kept on walking."

"Did he force you to marry him?" inquired the court.

"Yes," she replied.

"What is his income?"

"From $7 to $8 per day."

"Decree and $10 per week alimony, laconically added the judge.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 8.

What a Good Circus Rider Can Make

1907

They Earn Good Salaries, but Their Careers Are Short

A man horseback rider receives from $75 to $125 a week, and his career as a principal rider lasts about ten years. It is short not so much because these men get stiff and lose their agility as because they lose their nerve. Nearly all circus folk marry young, and with their added responsibilities comes a lively sense of danger which they ignored in younger days.

A man rider who cannot turn a somersault on a horse cannot command more than $50 a week. A woman rider who can perform this feat gets from $150 to $200 a week if she is a finished rider.

This isn't much when all the disadvantages of the calling are taken into consideration, but it should be remembered that all the expenses are paid, including the care, feeding and of course the transportation of their horses. All they have to provide is their own clothing. For the men riders clothes do not constitute much of a factor, and the women nearly always make their own, except those provided by the management.