CRAZE FOR POTATOES.
WIFE OBTAINS DIVORCE. The sad tale of a wife who "lost her figure" through being forced to eat potatoes ad infinitum, comes from Chicago. The lady %as granted a divorce by a Chicago court in consequence of this outrageous treatment- She said that her husband had a passion for potatoes, and was a potato merchant.—no doubt he got them cheap.
At any rate, he made his wife cook Uicm three times a day until her former sylph-like figure had vanished. "When 1 protested," she said, "he hit me with a potato masher." After reading this story one wonders what is going to happen to married couples in the future if divorce is granted because a woman hasn't, the will-power to insist on eating what she wants.
Instead of slavishly boiling those potatoes, the wife should have burned them three times a day until the taste and smell ci' potatoes became an abomination in her husband's nostrils.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17366, 30 March 1928, Page 5
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