WIFE’S AMBITION

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1939, Page 9

WIFE’S AMBITION

ESCAPE FROM -MARRIAGE.

SYDNEY, June 8.

A grazier, Aubrey Cyril Daniel, told the Divorce Court this week that four months after his marriage to June Lloyd Newman, he had found an “Easy Road to Success” psycho-graph chart in her room, in which she had confessed in writing that married life was the chief cause of her discontent and that to escape from it was her chief ambition.

He said his wife had written answers- to the forty questions on the chart, some of which were: Are you self-conscious? —Often. Are you easily depressed?—Often. Have you feelings of revenge?— Never.

Have you feelings of inferiority?— Often.

Do you feel unlucky?—Often. Are you superior, impulsive or jealous?-—lmpulsive. • Do you day-dream?—Often. Happy in marriage?—No. If not, why?—lncompatibility. Chief cause of discontent in life? —Marriage.

Chief ambition or longing?—Escape from present position.

On the chart were directions to .send a postal order for 3/- or 4/- to a Sydney G.P.O. address, and a statement, which his wife had signed, as follows:—“I am anxious to get the best out of life, to acquire happiness and success and to realise mJ' greatest ambitions.”

The judge ordered the wife, who had left her husband, to return home within 21 days.