YARD LEY'S YOKE.

NZ Truth, Issue 507, 6 March 1915, Page 9

YARD LEY'S YOKE.

Connubial Comforts .Cancelled. '•Desertion was the ground on which "Watler Bartlett Yardley based his plea for perpetual severance from his spouse, Eleanor Xardley. Petitioner reckoned ho married Eleanor m 1888 and she duly presented him with two youngsters Yardley*. m 1107 Wally got a job as manager of a crowd of buskers, with whom he went on tour. While he was away from the marital roost he regularly sent "hoot" to Eleanor, who supplemented the dollop by keeping boarders. Since spending a holiday subsequently at wild and woolly Waimate, they had not llvod together na man and wife. 'Yardley hung on to the theatrical show and ut the conclusion of the tour he telegraphed Eleanor tlint he wns coming home.' When he arrived, his wife gave him the "cold shoulder," and m the evening, showed him- into a small room containing a single bed, she dossing m a separate room, alao containing a single bed.. The nocturnal coolness lasted until last May, when Eleanor suddenly skated. Walter could get no satisfaction from his wife, regarding her reasons for treating him as she did. While he was treated all right m the house, he paid Eleanor 30s a week, but when the home comforts were switched off, he cut down his rent to 20s, whiohlwas the usual turlff for boarders. Finally, Elean6r sold the houso to him, and for rent paid him £ 1 a week, which ho ln turn paid back to her, for his bourd. Corroborutive evidence was given concerning the Yardley duo occupying separate rooms live years ago, since when thoy hadn't lived as man and wife. A decree, was sawn off without any fuss.