Show A aa 0 THER INLAW I NL LAW STORY she caused a brench schoolmaster to rico to the dorest anil and subsist on herbs A schoolmaster at amiens akiens prance france married hut but after a week of wedded life liis his mother in law who made her home hoino with them became so insupportable that unable longer to endure laer her tyranny lie he res resolved dived not only to desert the conjugal roof but to break with civilization anti and return to savagery so ho fled to a dense forest not far from amiens akiens aud and there lived for three weeks on roots and apples says the new york world ite said afterwards that whenever the picture of his home and wife rose in n his troubled brain there stepped between the scepter of liis his implacable mother in law guarding like the angel with hu laming flaming sword tho the gate of paradise and the thought would send liim him flying into tile the depths of the forest ag again lin to escape fancied pursuit and recapture at last hunger drove the vegetarian to desire another roof than the trees afforded and more tempting food than herbs and apples so lie he decided to seek refuge with his own mother and at her home found awaiting him papers in a suit for divorce brought by bv his wife on the ground ol of desertion now the courts have freed the unhappy schoolmaster who deemed conjugal happiness too dearly purchased at the price of such a another in law |