LETTERS OF A HUSBAND.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 44, 2 December 1913, Page 7

LETTERS OF A HUSBAND.

Aii action- for divorce was begun la to. Jy in* the Supremo Court of the, District «t Columbia, Washington, by Mrs Ethel v. Lanston on the ground that her husband, Aubrey Lailston, author, while she was recently travelling with hint and their two children in. Europe, requested her to allow him to malcfe a Belgian girl his "affinity." Mi's Lanston asked'the court-to issue an order restraining her husband from leaving the country and joining his "affinity ' abroad until he has provided tor he* and the two children. In supiwrt of her application she produced two letters written by her husband, one or which begins:— . Little One.—Your previous letter is in my wife's possession. I infinite- • ly regret not to be able to invite you to Pans, darling. You toll me you ha.ve not fine dresses like my wife, but remember I m>ver saw 'you in any other dress but the one you are wearing, yet, I alwa.yis found you charming. .About the first week in October I will deposit a sura, to vour credit in one oil tlw large Brussels stores. After that you will receive from me every week another remittance. When you write to me do not sign vour letter "Margot lai Belle." It is true you aiv prettv, but it isn't so nice to; see it said by you about yourself. In the second letter, Lanston said: I m not a, reformer, darling. Life is too short is it not? But I do hope, that in a gentle life, freed from wants and ancry thoughts, you will forgot all ugly things and think but of nico ones." . Mm Lanston states that hef husband I £126 *° *W iim *• »» »mo»% of