Rose To It

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 5

Rose To It

WITNESS (m the Divorce Court): We went fishing and caught some rather good fish. The Judge (looking up quickly): Where did you go?

had always been trouble caused by Mrs. Patterson's extravagance "m clothes.

"She attends church meetings four nights a week and two afternoons, a week for sewing," he continued. "On Sundays I have to make my own dinner and tea and look after the children, and sometimes when I have come home the meals were not ready."

His wife, said Patterson, had neglected her home for religion.

"My wife and this young fellow stay m the church for hours after the meetings have finished. "They talked until twelve and one o'clock at night, and I objected. But she thought she was doing ail right.

"If it were not for her mother, to-day, my wife would never have left me. She has interfered ever since we were married."

As to his having thrown out the furniture, defendant said he wag so "fed up" with the treatment he had received from his mother and father-in-law that he had decided to pack up and clear out, taking his wife with him.

"She said to me once that she would come back to me, only her mother.