The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-09
THE AFFINITY QUESTION HAS APPEARED IN ENGLAND

London, May ss.--It was inevitable that the twin soul'' fad should reach this country from America.
 It made it's first appearance>'in in the divorce court this week in a remark ale case in which the right of wife to have a mind Of her own was dis cussed. f
 The action was brought by Mrs. A. M. Hampson, who sought to obtain a divorce from her husband, Harold H. Hampson, tutor.
 The marriage took place in 19O8," said Mr. Fox Davies, who represented the wife, and they lived for some time at Bourneroad-Fincfiey. MT. Hampson had views on the subject of domestic discipline, and exercised -'pa- ternal authority which neant that if his wife disobeyed him he would slap her face.
 Tn 1908 they became paying guests of MT. and Mrs. Ordish at Putney. Finally they went to Erpingham- road. Puthey, where Mir. and Mrs. Ordish became thelr paying guests. Mrs. Or dish became mistress of the house, and Mrs. Hampson was required to take orders from her"
 Mrs. Hampson said her husband was very kind to her at times and very cruel at other times.
 "If I argued with him he would slap my face right and left" she declared eff pursued the argument he would throw me out of bed and hold his hand over my mouth. shaking me and pressing my arms and shoulders"
 What do you mean by argument?" Mr. Justice Bargrave Dean inquired.
 ''Very often there was scarcely any dispute or discussion" Mrs. Hampson replied. T was not allowed to have an opinion of my own in the world, unless 1t coincided with my husbands ; opinion.
 If 1t was even about such a small matter as catching a train and I said that perhaps we should be late. he would tell me to be silent. If spoke after that he would slap me on the mouth and cheeks"
 He was a sehoolmaster," the judge remarked. amid laughter.
 "We left Finchley because It was too dull" Mrs. Hampson continued, "and my husband conceived the idea of staying at boarding houses where there would be billiards. etc. That was how we went to live with MT. and Mrs. Ordish.
 When Mrs. ordlsh obtained control of the house at Putney my husband told me must take a back seat and do what was told. He suggested t4ldI Shoulo~ To4O tu0 sermon on the Mount and practice Christian charity"
 "Where was Mir. Ordish all this timer" the judge asked.
 He was in the house. but he was a nonentity." counsel answered. He was packed off to America"
 My husband asked Mrs. Ordish to help him to turn me out of the house because was not submissive" Mrs Hampson stated. T sat in a chair and clung to 1t tightly. and would not aone day my husband came into the room hand-in-hand with Mrs Ordish, and said he intended to live with her, as she was his twin soul.
 Some one told him that the best way to stop a child crying was to tie it up tightly in a shawl, so he wrapped the ~baby up in 8 shawl and pinned 1t so tightly that it's limbs were pressed to its sides. When I got up In the middle of night and released the child he became angry and slapped me"
 In a letter MT. Hampson wrote to his wife he/said:
 Except that am very sorry for you. do not blame myself very much for what have done"
 Mrs. Hampson was granted a decree nisl. with the custody of her child.