BUSINESS MEN BAD LOVERS.

Northern Advocate, 5 September 1913, Page 3

BUSINESS MEN BAD LOVERS.

HUSBAND'S REFUSAL OF TEST OF AFFECTION. NEW YORK, Juy 20. "The American business man is a hopeless failure as a lover," was a statement.made yesterday during the hearing of a divorce action in Chicago. The defendant is Mrs Eleanor White Trenholm, the wife of a wealthy member of the Chicago Board of Trade (the great grain market). Her answer to his suit is a counter suit for divorce on the ground that her husband is not sufficiently affectionate. Mr Trenholm declared that he had shown his wife all the love of which he was capable, and gave an account of how she proposed to test, his love. "A year after she deserted me," Mr Trenholm told the court, "l asked her to retrun to my home. Her reply was that she would give me three days' trial, if I thought I was then more affectionate than I had been. This suggestion struck me as being too cold blooded. I refused it."

According to Dr. Overton Brooks, a medical expert, who explained to the court the psychological factors of the case, the "inefficiency of the business man in matters of affection is in direct proportion to the size of his business." He added that idle men are idle lovers, but that a husband might love his wife and at the same time detest her.