WIFE’S RELIGIONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2305, 21 July 1921, Page 1

WIFE’S RELIGIONS.

HUSBAND’S STORY OF A WEEKLY CHANGE.

DIVORCE APPEAL,

New York, June 14

Allegin'? that his wife’s constant changes of religion had “made a pandemonium of my happy home,” and ruined his nervous system and his business, Mr Charles Maedonnough, a silk salesman, is petitioning the New Jersey courts to dissolve his marriage. Mr Maedonough told the court he had done his best to please his spouse, but that her religious activities had been too much for him.

They both started married life as Episcopalians. He followed her faithfully in her progress from the Episcophalians to the Economities, and thence to the Mesmerists, tylind Readers, and Spiritualists. Faint but plucky, he then went through the maze of Theosophy and Christian Science.

“There was nothing in our home but oceans of talk on theories and dogma. My wife argued all day and most of the night,” he told the

court. Then came New Thought, followed by the creed of the Angel Dancers. By this time Mr Maedonough was hopelessly outdistanced and mentally staggering, while, according to his story, his wife harassed him unceasingly. The break came when Mrs Maedonough discovered (laws in the creed of the Angel Dancers, and was joyfully received into the fjock of the Numerologists. “One day my daughter arrived a2 tlie office with a note from mv wife,” Mr Maedonough testified. “She wanted .£‘2o to pay for a course of instruction by a woman Numerologist. 1 paid up.' “Next my wjfe told ihe that her study of the science of mystical numbers convinced her that -'he had got 'au absolutely wrong kind of man for a husband. “Then I quit!”