HUSBAND WHO WAS BORED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15269, 5 April 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

HUSBAND WHO WAS BORED.

" HOPELESSLY INFERIOR"- WIFE IN DIVORCE. Mas.:Mtto H. Hssinras has been granted a divorce by the Supreme Court of America, from her husband because he was bored: by her. ThaVatany rale,: was ■the burden of< a ktter written by him, on which she based her suit. After setting out the points he liked and disliked, in bis,wife,.Mr. Hastings, who is on agricultural expert, went on: This is not a tear/stained letter;,.. but the woman in this case is hopelessly my mental inferior. She is three-fourths physical, and the other fourth is musical. Of all other mental and spiritual- matters she has utterly nil. and knowing as you do my ignorance of music you can see there is a text for boredom personified, The fact is she bores mo. 'She bored me from the start, but I was so lonesome and' lovesick that even to be bored- by a woman who made a fuss, over me was a relief to which my worn-out nerves fell an easy prey. I have endured it ever since because I have not the courage to drive from me the devoted woman whom I onoe allowed to approach me so closely. lam trying now to do my duty and to bring her; to realise .that she must give me up to get her music, rathstr tlisn allow; her to ieeltnat it is; I who;must\giye her tip'to get my mind. The letter .ended with on appeal to hia wife: "If you are seeking a divbrce to rplsaee we, eave i your money and buy ,