HUSBAND’S ILL-HEALTH

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1927, Page 9

HUSBAND’S ILL-HEALTH

A "SPAHLINGER CURE.” A railway fireman named Harold Walter Lowe, of Parkes, New South Wales, who claims to have been completely cured of consumption by the Spahlinger treatment, to receive which he went to Switzerland in 1924, was a petitioner in the Divorce Court recently. He sought a decree for restitution of conjugal rights against his wife, Amelia Lowe, who he said had ordered him out of her house before his cure, and refused to have anything to say to him afterwards. Lowe said he was married at Parkes in May, 1917, and lived happily with his wile until his health broke down and he contracted consumption. He was an inmate of various hospitals but without beuefieal results. When he returned to his wife at Parkes after being at a sanatorium, she ordered him out of the house and told him he must leave Parkes. In 1924 he went to Switzerland, where he received the Spahlinger treatment for 14 months. He returned cured in October, 1925, and went to see his wife at Parkes. “She refused to listen to me,” said petitioner, “and ordered me out of the house.”

While he was in Switzerland, added petitioner, he wrote several letters to his wife, one of which she answered.

'at is all very well for you to go about boasting about your cure,” she wrote. “You don’t think of the ruined lives and' little babies that come into the world to suffer for you. Don’t dare to w’rite to me again. I don’t want to see you at all. I am not deceived by you and I am returning your photograph, which I regard as an insult. . . . Willie died after six weeks of suffering." The Judge made an order directing the wife to return to petitioner within 21 <tayr