Exprected Wife To Live On Potates And Prayers

Chronicle (Levin), 22 December 1949, Page 5

Exprected Wife To Live On Potates And Prayers

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LONDON, Dec. 20. A former Polish fighter pilot, FdWard Tararski, . who married a Blackpool school teacher during the' War, took a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britann-ica dealing with philosophy on his honeymoon, and- ; finally left his wife and entered aTrappist monastery in Walejs, was* refused a petition for a, judieial separation in the Manchester Divorce Court. . Instead, the.- Jridge,t Mr. Justice Willmer, grariteql ; thd wife a de'cree riisi on the ground of desertion. The' wife said that at the end of the War, When Tararski retufried from active service, he bec'ame deeply religious, forbade her tp use make-up, and c'riticised her chdicd of hfight ffocks. He suggested that' they should go to Canada and live* in a reniote area where they could subsist on potatoes and spend theif time in prayer and riie'ditation.- Shf refused, her husband left -her,- but later she fotind hihi liyirig in.What she descrihed as "squalor," working as a garderier for a Trappist irion1 astery on Caldy Islari'd in Sbuth Wales. , - "Because ar wife does not liye up to the very high standard Whieh: a husband of his nharacter sets up, it does not follbw that.^she is g-uilty of desertion,'' said the Judge. ''No Wife could have lived with this husband uriless She was prepardd to be completely sribservient to him ih every detailj'" J -