AN INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 11

AN INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE.

A Newark lady named Emma Hollums (says a late telegram from New York) lias sued her husband for separation, alleging novel grounds of cruelty. Ho talked an impassioned love speech, ad-dressed-to a young friend of whom she was jealous, into a largo phonograirii, which ho placed nightly outside her bedroom, door, compelled his wife to listen throughout tho night to the stentorian reproductions of his declarations. Both he and her rival declared that the wife's suspicions were groundless. They carefully preserved in the presence of third parties an innocent demeanour, and added to her agony by assuring her that the voices were an hallucination, the object being, it is contended, to drive her insane. Obtaining the assistance of relatives the wife managed, however, to secure the phonograph with tho incriminating record, which was produced in court as evidence.

Miss Broughton, tho London actress, will economise in her millinery adventures, but never in her carnations (sayn tho St. James's Budget). M. Wilhelm, the artist in costume, had to change the colour of Lady BrudonelVs frock to ton 6 with them. Why? Miss Broughton^ merely tells you that they suit. her. "People bother me everywhere about them. At a charity bazaar I was offcre ten pounds for my carnation, but I wouldn't part with it. 1 sold tho 'baby' — that is, the bud — for five. Some say that what fortune I havo depends on them. Others declare that I am bound by a dreadful promise. It is all untrue. I wear llipm because — — ." But tho curious and romantic thing is that Miss Broughton leta no one into that "beCttUSO."