DIVORCE POPULAR.
PUBLIC MIND CORRUPTED. A case came before Mr .Justice Hood at Melbourne a few days ago, in which a wifo was petitioning for a divorce, 'j'ho wifo had lived on friendly relations with her husband's mother, and counsel for the wifo put in a letter which tho mother had received two years ago. In this tho husband wrote: "You snokc in your last letter of divorce. If you think that, sho would be able to get it I do not mind the cost, as long as I am free." He went on to say that his former solicitor could conduct the case and charge it to him, and he concluded by urging, "For God's sake, mother, try to get her to do it scon." 'When tho letter was read Mr. Justice Hood said, "It is on illustration of tin; way the public mind is corrupted by tho reading of theso cases. There is no stigma or stain attaching in tho public estimation to divorce. I think it is lime, the legislature stepped in and enabled Iho Courts to deal with men of this class."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1074, 13 March 1911, Page 6
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186DIVORCE POPULAR. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1074, 13 March 1911, Page 6
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