DIVORCE FOR FRIENDSHIP

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 12

DIVORCE FOR FRIENDSHIP

"I hope to restore through divorce the beautiful friendship with my husband which 1 lost through marriage," was the reason given on June 17 by Mrs Joseph Lander Eastland, one of th« leaders of society at San I'rancisco, why she is suing her husband, the millionaire Cousul for Venezuela, for a divorce and £10U,000 alimony. The psychology of the case, as Mrs Eastland explains it, is remarkable. After their marriage at Chicago two years ago, the couple went to Paris to ilve, returning to California last autumn, when Mr Eastland took quarters at his club and Mrs Eastland in a bungalow at Uoronado. She waited in vain for any signs of a revival of tho "beautiful friendship," and then decided to try the experiment of divorce.

"I am suing on grounds of incompatibility," she said. "Isn't that sad, seelrrg that 'incompatibility" was the last word that could tf have been applied to us at the time of our marriage? We had been such good friends for so many years that mariiage seemed the ideal outcome..

"So we married and found that love does not spring from friendship, and that we were only friends and not sweethearts. I think that two persons might marry for lovo and develop friendship, but I am now convinced that they c-annot reverse the order with success."