THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 28, 1939!!("
ALLEGED TO HAVE SHOWN
Pakete
PHOTO OF WIFE IN NUDE QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
TO HIS MEN FRIENDS
An showed to men friends photographs of his wife in the nude, taken on their honeymoon, was mentioned by Mr. Justice Henn Collins in the Divorce Court.
allegation that a husband of love. I have given it a lot to carry, but I trust my friend, the wind, to hand it safe to you with kisses such as only he knows how to give."
A London solicitor, Mr. Keith David Erskine, of Upper Grosvenor- street, W., petitioned for a decree of restitution of conjugal rights.
The wife, Mrs. Kathleen Diana Erskine (nee Kayser), of Eaton Hall, Retford, Notts, defended the suit, her case being that she had just cause for leaving her husband, to whom she was married in Octo- ber, 1936.
Mrs. Erskine's main complaint against her husband, said the Judge, was that he insisted upon. marital relations when it was dangerous to
* her health.
Another allegation was that Mr. Erskine showed to his men friends, in his wife's presence, photographs of her in the nude, which had been taken on their honeymoon.
"I am not concerned," the Judge continued, "with any question of the good taste of such a proceeding. I am concerned with it only as it affected the wife.
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KEPT THEM IN ALBUM "Was it, in the circumstances, in- tended to be, and taken by the wife to be, an insult?
Neither of the two independent witnesses of the episode, who were called for the wife, deposed to any reaction on her part, and neither said she gave any indication of taking the incident amiss."
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Mrs. Erskine had not 'satisfied him (the Judge) that she was affronted, and he was satisfied it was not against her wish that the photographs should be shown.
She kept copies of them pasted in
Dealing with an episode on No- vember 6, the Judge said, according to Mrs. Erskine, her husband's be haviour on that date was, for her, the proverbial "straw." Mr. Erskine's evidence was. that she invited him to her arms.
After the parting Mrs. Erskine wrote saying she could hold out no hope of changing her mind.
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"HUSBAND SINCERE" "This, as you must know in your heart," she added, "is no. sudden whim, but has been gradually cumulating since the first day our marriage. I have forgiven you things and tried to start afresh time just once too often, and your and time again, but it has happened be- haviour to me at times when I have been ill has become unbearable. Though I may again forgive, I can- not forget."
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letters were the outpourings of
His Lordship said Mr. Erskine's
man who sincerely. loved his wife and was very deeply affected by the course things had taken.
the Judge said: "I find that none Granting the husband's petition, of the wife's charges is proved."
FOSSILS IN A LAKE
Prehistoric Drama
A prehistoric "asphalt lake," rich
famous
her photograph album; she was in animal fossils, has been discover- never careful to see that the albumed a few miles from the. was not available to any who might be curious, and she herself showed the photographs to, at any rate, one
young man..
an
The Judge said he did not believe allegation that Mr. Erskine made fun to his men friends of his wife's figure at a later stage.
"AMOROUS AFFECTION"
Soviet oil city of Baku..
Many centuries ago the lake, little more than three hundred square yards in area and six feet deep, Was a mass of sticky asphalt which glistened in the sun.
In the early quaternary period hundreds of sabre-tooth tigers, pri- mitive wild horses, deer, bears, wol- Regarding the wife's main charge, glistening suface for water, plunged ves, and other animals mistook the the Judge said the gravamen of it in to quench their thirst and were was that what took place was again-caught forever in the sticky morags. st Mrs. Erskine's wish, and was suf- fered by her as a dutiful submission
LIKE A FLY PAPER Vultures, birds of prey, jackals,
sca-
of
to her husband's importunities.
He did not think the acts with hyenas, and other four-footed which Mr. Erskine was charged, if vengers, lured to the carcasses done with the willing assent of his the trapped animals, were in turn wife, were such as would justify caught. It was like a huge piece her refusal to return.
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In July, 1937, Mrs. Erskine wrote to her husband in terms of deep
and amorous affection. She wrote: "My: happiness is only incomplete in that. I cannot share it with you, for you, I believe, would feel the same and understand.-
KISSES ON THE BREEZE. The wind is blowing straight <from me to you with a heavy load
"NIKS
of fly-paper.
The properties of asphalt as an embalming agent, according to the
historian Diodorus, were known to the Egyptians. The carcasses of many of the animals trapped in the asphalt lake are in an state of preservation.
excellent
Besides the prehistoric animals, the lake is said to be rich in the re- |mains of many extant species.. Ex- cavation are providing an excellent cross-section of the history # of the | fauna of the Caucasses.
The fossil wealth of the Baku "Asphalt Lake," which is compared by "paleontologists to the famous. "Ter Lake” in Southern California, was discovered by a group of young Soviet geology students on an ex- cursion..
A commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences is conducting the excavations and is exploring other sections of the Baku ollfelda for similar finds."
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