Perhaps the sweetest time in a girl’s life is that roseate moment when she gets her first divorce. It is a time that comes but once to a girl. When at last her final decree arrives, she stands, in innocent wonder, on the threshold of a new life. What pretty, girlish dreams are hers as she goes out into the great world in search of a minister, so that she can start things all over again. [Illustration] THE FLAW There is, unfortunately, a bad hitch in the process of obtaining a divorce. They haven’t perfected the method, as yet--it needs a lot of working over. This having to wait about for months or years is really too tiresome; it cuts in so on one’s time. Why, any really earnest worker, going on the schedule of a forty-four-hour week, could be married and divorced three or four times over in the time it now takes a lady to be legally free from only one husband. [Illustration] THE DIVORCE SPECIAL Any time that you want to see a bit of life, go to an American railway station and watch the outgoing trains to Nevada. Several ticket agents have to be constantly on duty in the window where both-way tickets to Reno are sold; one man couldn’t keep up with the rush of trade. A typical line at the ticket office is shown here--it is considered _de rigueur_ for husbands to accompany their outgoing wives to the train. If you are contemplating a jaunt to the nation’s reconstruction center in the near future, it is a bit safer to book seats several weeks ahead. [Illustration] OLD HOME WEEK It is so nice for the new bridegroom to meet his wife’s collection of former husbands. It is something for him to look forward to, all through the honeymoon. These little gatherings are so delightfully home like--it is reassuring to feel that you are all members of the same club. [Illustration] BACK TO THE START AGAIN This little scene is the sort of thing that divorce leads to,--hope springs eternal, and all that. A divorce simply gets one into the right frame of mind for a fresh start in matrimony. After all, Nature will have its own way; there’s nothing like love--it is the passion to which the best divorce lawyers attribute their success. [Illustration] Wild Bores We Have Met _Question! Who--in Society--Is the Unadulterated, 100 Per Cent. Bore?_ BEHIND THE “TIMES” Bores may be met with at all times of the day, but none bores so blightingly as he who bores at breakfast. Who more completely spoils a déjeuner than the hideous male shown above who absolutely refuses to pick up his cues in the sweet little matutinal dialogue? THE MONDAY-TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY BORE