Play – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png Play – Blue Cereal Education https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 “While You Wait” (A Play from The Smart Set, June 1900) https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/while-you-wait-play-smart-set-june-1900/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:24:12 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/while-you-wait-play-smart-set-june-1900/ The Smart Set (Cover)MRS. VAN CLEEF—Now, in this divorce business, there seems to be a great rivalry between South Dakota and Oklahoma, but the Oklahoma firm’s circular is a good deal the more enticing. Listen. It says (she reads from a circular which she takes from her pocket): “Our newer States, in compiling their laws, have seen fit to show more liberality in the matter of obtaining divorces than may be found among the older states, whose laws on this subject were enacted at a time when ideas were less in accord with the advanced liberal thought of the present.

“As the Mohammedan devotee confidingly turns his eyes toward the tomb of his beloved leader, so has Dakota been regarded as the Mecca of hope to weary companions in matrimony.”

Isn’t that nice? We’ll be the weary companions.

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