A MARRIAGE EXPERIMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 25 January 1907, Page 4

A MARRIAGE EXPERIMENT.

LOVE BAXiSUED. Xew York, Doct-mbor -2. _ A strange cxpteriment in a now and" improved form of matrimonv ended in failure ycstDr.ln.7, when the Supreme Court granted a decree of divorce to Mrs f7. L. Hunter, wife of (lie. well known literary man. sometime editor of the Smart Set. ami now resident in London. According to his wife's Icsiimonv. Hunter iiad advised a refinement of marriage when five years ago lie wooed and won Martha' Winner, daughter of Professor Wisner. She ninetc-n. and had already aehiewd distinction as a. musician, with (lie proliiisc of a great carer. The court "lines, since th.' wife stated tint lTe.nier deelavrd iie couid not live wi!hout her. P,ut while Hie weddins peal: was still 1 ringing in L-.-r ears the liu,= > hand revealed ,ieus rcgardinc marit -a rc'atiom far removed from the cruii.ove wi,i to he entirely (limin.-vf.d ?* . a ' ,!o!; on the ideal niamVv I heirs was to he a partnership'of idea? and ;ynihifion. They were nc. fording to his ideas., to live logciher in a perfect comradeship closer" titan human atr*ction. Each was to de rote every energy to the dev.-'opni-nt of the other's genius and amliiiioir-. She, with his ciicouragemcnr and hip. ™- tf achieve a foivmo-t u'.-.u-,. ;„ fin; world of ~,,,-i, ;M1(1 ,„.('. „!„!,. ,„., slillllllated l»y ler slice.'-. hecame the greatest and nio--i pov, eri'nl man in the worhL Mrs Hunter did not entirely svm pathise with this view, hut the liu*hand being fifteen vcars older, she nc cepted the situation. She made tiinTd ■•Mori's from time to__;ime to breakthrough the hairier of reserve, but each time Hunter -,-oJd her see wasyoung and romantic, and must learn, better. She suggested dillidentlv after a time thai; perhaps the home would he happier if a bain's praft'e.were heard in it. He severely relinked tins Philistim- notion, saving {hat motherhood would ruin her career and disturb fne perfection of ihejr re. lati.in,hi|,. Eventually Hunter weiil: abroad Yi> live, and since March las;. had faijvit to stippqrt her. .