DIVORCE FOR FRIENDSHIP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 12

DIVORCE FOR FRIENDSHIP.

WHAT A WIFE WANTS. "I hope to restore through divorce tho .beautiful friendship with, my husband which 1 lost through marriage," was the reason give r,n .rune 17 by Airs. Joseph Lander Eastland, one of tho leaders of society at San Francisco, why she is suing her husband, the millionaire Consul for Venezuela, for a divorce and „fcloo,oUo alimony. \ Tho psychology of the case, as Mrs. Eastland explains it, is remarkable. After their marriage at Chicago, two years ago, the couplo went to Paris to live, returning to California last autumn, when Mr. Eastland took quarters at his club and Mrs,. Eastland in a bungalow at Coronado. She waited in vain for any signs of a revival nf tile "beautiful friendship," and then decided to try tho experiment of divoroa. "I am Miing on grounds of incompatibility," slio Vaid. ''Isn't that sad, seeing that 'incompatibility' was the last word that could have I>een applied to us at the time of our marriage? Wo had been such good friends for so many years that marriage seemed tlia ideal outcome. "So wo married, and_ found that love does not spring from friendship, and that wo were only friends and not sweethearts. I think that two persons might marry for lijvp and develop friendship, but I am now convinced that they cannot reverse the order with success."