WAUPACA RECORD

January 6, 1898

The Hooper divorce case was concluded last Friday and plaintiff and defendant, judge and lawyer took leave of this city. Judge Webb will probably render his decision sometime next month. This case, while it has been rather an interesting one, has attracted but little attention from Waupaca people. The court room, throughout the trial, was occupied by but few more than the witnesses and principals in the case. Mr. and Mrs. Hooper are both old people and there was a tinge of sadness to the whole thing. Mrs. Hooper having occupied that most unenviable and trying position of stepmother, may account for some of her trials. She is to be commended for having endured as much as she did for twenty years. Too often the stepmother is made to feel that hers is a most inferior position and that she is unwelcome, particularly in a family of half-grown or grown-up children, and the father is too apt to be influenced by those children.