BUSINESS MEN BAD LOVERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1844, 2 September 1913, Page 8

BUSINESS MEN BAD LOVERS.

HUSBAND'S REFUSAL OF TEST OF AFFECTION. "The American business mail is a hopeless failure as a lover,'' was-a statement made during tho hearing of a divorco action in Chicago in July. ' The defendant was Mrs. Eleanor White Trenholm, the wife of a wealthy member of tho Chicago Board of Trade (the great grain markot). Her answer to his -suit was a counter-suit for divorce on tho ground that lier husband was not sufficiently affectionate. Mr. Trenholm declared that he had shown his wife nil the lovo of which he was capable, and gave an account of how she proposed to test his love. "A year after she deserted me," Mr. Trenholm told tho court, "I asked her to return to my home. Her reply was that she would give mo. three days' trial, if I thought I was thon moro affectionate than I had been. This suggestion struck mo as being too cold-blooded. I refused it." According to Dr. Overton Brooks, a medical export, who explained to tho court tho psychological factors of the case, tho "inefficiency of the business man in matters of affection is in_ direct ■ proportion tc.-tho sizo of his business. He added that idle men are ideal lovers, but that a husband might love his wife and at the same time detest hor. Tho court was engaged subsequently in listening to a recital of a number of 1 lovo poems which Mr. Trenholni stated ; had been addressed to his wife by a ' prominent business man who signed I himsalf "Lover."