WIFE AS LOVE MONOPOLIST

Evening Star, Issue 17921, 17 March 1922, Page 1

WIFE AS LOVE MONOPOLIST

A “ lovo monopolist ” is tho term used to describe his wife by Colonel Basil Dutcher, of the United States Army Medical Service, who is defending a suit for divorce. Tbo colonel is fifty, and ho has been twice married, his second wife being twenty years his junior. . Her jealousy, ho alleges, knows no bounds. “ She is a love monopolist, and demands my exclusive worship.”

Ho declares, in reply to her complaint, “ she is oven jealous and suspicious of my two grown-up daughters, and hated to soo mo pay tho slightest attention to them or show them any affection.” Mrs Dutcher names two co-respon-dents, one a widow with whom the colonel was billeted in France during the war, Tho other is described as “ a woman across the passage.” Mrs Dutcher became so jealous of the latter, says tho colonel, that she insisted on moving to another city, although sho was about to give birth to a child. On her side, the wife relates an incident that occurred when she returned homo one night. Tho colonel and his daughters, she declares, refused to admit her, and sho had to force her way into tho house by kicking down the French window. Sho is, sho alleges, “ her husband’s slave and his daughters’ servant.”