GIRL'S ADVICE JO HER MOTHER SEQUEL TO A FAMOUS DIVORCE |" . CASE. . i DISILLUSIONED AT 18. j LONDON, May 10. j : An IH-year-old girl's remarkable ad- ! i vice tO'her mother on matrimonial dis- j :' putes, love, and life in general, was ; read in the Divorce Court' yesterday I during tho hearing of an action that j revived memories of the famous Huntly ; 1 Gordon divorce case of three years i ago. \ ■ . Cross petitions were brought by Mr. Herbert Huntly Gordon and his wife |in June, 1908. Mrs. Gordon coupled \ her husband's name with a mysterious j "Miss A.," a governess, and Mr. Gor- | don named a naval officer, but after a i nine days' hearing and a succession of j emotional scenes in court, the jury decided that all tho charges made were unfounded. No reconciliation has ' since taken I place, and Mrs. Gordon applied yesteri day for a decree of restitution of conjugal rights. It was stated that the elder of their children, Gladys, aged 18, went to live with her father, while the younger lived with her mother, in. Wimpole Street. Mrs. Gordon wrote to her husband:— Dear Bertie, —After much consideration and due regard to the welfare of our children, I propose to return home. Our obvious duty is to make the children happy, and do our duty by them, and therefore I claim my proper position in your house.—Your wife. DAUGHTER'S LETTER. Some, time afterwards- her daughter Gladys sent her the following letter:— My. darling Mother,—l have not written you before, as I felt my letters would do no good, and would give no pleasure to receive. But do not think it is because I have foi^otten you. I very often think of you and my little sister, and ; look at your photos. I have read your two .letters to dad expressing your wish to return, and. that.we should all live together again. I must say, mother, dear, I cannot understand your wishing to do so after all that has happened. Even before the unhappy events of tho past two years you and dad did not get on well together. You quarrelled and* disagreed over every small thing, and there was no peace or love in tlie home. "Wo were all unhappy. "I 1 do not blame you either.. There were faults on both sides. You are not the only married eouplo wholly unsuited to each other. - To one's .sorrow one learns every day that there are many homes where the mother and father do not agree. Such; cases jire better apart. Sure* ly you must see that for you and dad to come together again is quite impossible. You may promise to bury the past, but such promises are easier to mako than to. keep. In time one of you would not forget to reproach or taunt the other with tho.past, and the consequence would be .\forso quarrelling than every before. : So it would go on, and no peace or happiness for either —certainly not for me. ' -,;■•■ Now, mother dear, I must tell you honestly, I could not stand such a life of misery, and I should have to arrange to go elsewhere. You will think that I do not want you" to come back, but it is because'l plainly see suqh a plan would not work well. If I could see there was the slightest chance of Tbur being united and happy, how glad I should be to have my mother and sister once more! But things have gone too far. You have long ceased to care if or each other. You *seem to have steadily drifted apart. I have sat and thought for hours by myself, and tried to think what would* be the best and happiest thing to do. You sec, mother clear, .1 am no longer the child of barely^ sixteen who lived with, you two years ago. I am past eighteen, and older than you wero when you married. You can no longor treat me as a child. My life up to now has, been full of every kind of sorrow and trouble, I and has made me more serious and thinking'than the majority ;of girls at eighteen. In fact, I feel much older than that, aiid often ', -wonder 'if I am going to se«? the sunny side of life again. '■ fBut although I have scon so lnany marriages a hohpeless failure, it has I not destroyed my faith in love. I still think there is happiness to bo found in married life. Think it all over. So much depends upon what you decide now. Believe me, I wish you could be happy, and always wished it because you are my ■mother, and I shall always be your loving daughter. Gladys. P.S. —Perhaps I should make myself clear and say that if you return T shall go away. "HORRIFIED." ; Mrs. Gordon, it was stated, wrote 'in reply to her daughter:— My dear Gladys,—Your letter horrified and grieved me beyond words. 1 am horrified to find that my own yirl can write in such a strain"to her mother. It is terrible, especially to such a mother as 1 havo been to you. I can only hope that the one excuse for you is that yoxi do not realise everything, and overlook the fact that there are two sides to every question. All I require is a small income to onnblo me to provide a small homo for myself and your sister. When this is given me. you will neither of you be burdened with my presence. "Ts it necessary to have all this terrible story told in court?" asked Mr. I Justice Deane. At bis suggestion I counsel consulted in private;- and it ! was afterwards announced that a deed ;of separation had been drawn up. ! Mr. Hume Williams, K.C., for the j husband, expressed tho liopo thattimo [ i would heal old wounds, and the judge I expressed bis approval of tho course taken. "There is always a chance of reconciliation,'' said the jutl.uv. ''Tho young child may bring husband am! wife together." Syrup of TFfc??* ftnv wren lar I» s<! ••id-2* id, rfir.nion-1 ximpi hcrt t #>« vj^r,.

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