VANISHED HUSBANDS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 12111, 27 August 1936, Page 1

VANISHED HUSBANDS

THE ADVENTURE LUST Every year 20,000 married men in Britain walk out of their homes and simply vanish. And the most common reason for these strange disappearances it a boyhood lust for adventure that has never quite died in their hearts. Here is just one example:— A Birmingham woman awoke in the early hours of the morning to find her husband almost completely dressed. “Where are you going?” ishe asked him in amazement. He replied, "I’ll be back soon,” and left the house. She has never seen ;him since. To-day in a tiny cattle town in the wild west of Brazil, behind a bar known to the inhabitants as “the Englishman’s place,” is that dreamyeyed Birmingham man, dispensing warm beer and cana. Even to-day he cannot say just what made him throw up everything in order to run a little rum shop in Matto Grosso. He was married —and happy—until he saw an advert, which spoke of Rio de Janeiro, Monte video, and Buenos Aires. That night he vanished. Probably 10,000 of this year’s vanished husbands just drifted away from home to adventure.