HYPNOTISED BY AIRMAN

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 426, 8 July 1913, Page 7

HYPNOTISED BY AIRMAN

A MARRIAGE ANNULLED

At San Antonio, Texas, the Courts hare annulled the marriage of Mrs Walter Brookings, wife of the famous airman Ml* Walter Brookings/ on the ground that 6he was hypnotised by Shis flying {eats. Thepe^ titioner, who is a daughter of Mr William Browii, a former Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, stated m evidence that Mr Brookings when waterplaning at Palm Beach, Florida., America's most fashionable winter resort, hypnotised her by permitting her to accompany him on a flight. She was enchanted with the voyage m the skies, and consented without further ado to marry him. The wedding took place m January, and there quickly followed disillusionment, she said, and on terra firma she gradually freed herself from the hypnotio influences of the airman, and (she informed the Judge) no longer admired her husband, except for his skill m flying. Mr Brookings, who was only 25 when Miss Brown, at a height of I,OCOft, consented to marry him, had already (says the ' Daily Vlail') been married and divorced.

The following extract is from the Sydney • Sun,' illustrative of the dismal state of Ihe city at the time: — "Let's cook breakfast." " Can't." "Why not?" "No coal." "Why?" "Coal strike." "Use the gas stove." " No gas." "Why?" "Gas strike." " Let' 6go to auntie's on the tram." " Can't get there.- ; "Why?" "Tram strike." ." Then come over to North Sydney." * ' Can't be done." ** "Why?" "Ferry strike." "Good Lord! What a town!" "You're right." "Let's get out of it." " Cant get out." * > "Why not?" "Eaihvay strike." "What's to be done?" "Heaven knows."