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I ML M1KKUKJuly 'y.CleanWifeMother WasTheredriver George Johnsettled.Whatever differences Cottesloe busStevens had with his mother-in-law were quickly **She was about three times as big as 1 am, ' he complained, “I’d got a flat for my wife, but she was too faithfully installedwith her mother at a boarding bouse.’And she*s held the fort permanently7” asked His Honor.Yes, I couldn’t put my footsiStevens nodded ruefullyithe dernU*«l to relieve Iter diinside the place. ^Thi! week must have wrt a record lor *tcrt« el mairUiflw that crashed withini year or u. £li» May Stevens had b«n marred to busman Geertte lets thin *rear a#o when she began Is (St tired of hstitework.Aiixjorin to pi. iKtc her, Steven* told t» ' ourt.:-SWpM: Ssp-'SSi MZUTJX. 215’sasrwjawsi —i_n sisjrjasfssa. p,“butoInevitable arguments ensued;Elsie Stevens stih had her own way; and if hub by hoped to influence her, that hope M, he satd when fefcs wife s mother shitted in. “She was there to stay. and gradually I found myself being poshed out.14Where dee* a man go when hi# mother--in-law gradually ooict hi eh oat of houae end home? Judge Dwyer m\mi havewondered the aatne thing, tor he aaked the fliieution.4|] went to mf mother. Staree# is-plainedBut not all her huehand * peranamoq* ctT n •olicitorffl warning* could bring EUie Utevtna hack to the marital fold.When she received a lawyer** letter telling her that George had furawbed an other home for her. ahe wrote in reply:Mi have no Intention of over living with him. It k only fair to toll him before he goes to any expense,George Steven® went to Lhe expesae QS a divorce, and waa granted it on the ground« of wife1! deaerttop,
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Perth Mirror
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Sat, Jul 05, 1941
Page 3
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