SILENT HUSBAND
NO WORDS FOR THREE YEARS. Mrs. Stalker, of Heywood, told in court, when she obtained her separation order, that for three years her husband had lived in one bedroom and never spoken to her. A quiet-voiced, timid little woman with 'mild, brown eyes, she told this a strange story:. — “My husband was nice to me before wo were married twenty-five years ago,” she said. “He was Attentive and considerate. “But soon after we were married he changed. Sometimes he would be all right. Then sometimes he would be different. “He never took me out. Always he went out by himself and left me at home. “Those three years when he did not speak were terrible. He used to leave me notes saying what time he would be going to work and getting back home. “I cooked his meals.at the right time and left them on the table. Then he would take them to his room and eat them there. “I did all his cleaning and washing. I might have tried to make him live with us by leaving his room uncleaned. “But, you see, there are sometimes accidents at his work.. I thought: supposing he should have an accident and be brought home. It would not do for them to find his room dirty. “It was through his having an accident and my nursing him that he broke his silence after three years. “But in the end things were no better. “I have never dared to go into a neighbour’s house, or have a neighbour in mine. "It has just been loneliness all the time. Yet I know no more than any one else what the reason is.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 3
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