Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1913 — SAYS HUSBAND WAS ILL-CLAD [ARTICLE]

SAYS HUSBAND WAS ILL-CLAD

New York School Teacher Sue* Rich Envelope Manufacturer for Divorce. New York.—Mrs. Germaine Lewers, a teacher in public school 33, has brought suit In the supreme court asking- for a separation from her husband, John G. Lewers, a wealthy envelope manufacturer on Pearl street, alleging that he does not dress properly or wear clean linen. The Lewers couple were married by Rev. Dr. Ashley of St. -artholomew's church on December 1, 1906, and have two children, Helen, five, and Marguerite, three years old. Her marital troubles, the complaint alleges, be. gan in 1908. after Mrs. Lewers had made a visit to Cambridge, Mass. Upon her return to New York her husband, she says, accused her of flirting with an aged bachelor In Cambridge. Answering his wife’s application for alimony, Lowers states that not once tn their married life did his wife lay out for him a freshly pressed suit or tn any way seek to Improve his wearing apparel and general appearance. He further states that his wife has developed a temper which makes their living together impossible. He charges that Mrs. Lewers gets a salary of 860 a month and is well able to provide for herself. In his affidavit Lewers states that

he was married after engaging in business with his wife's mother at 102 West Fifty-sixth street. He swears that he invested about 11,500 In a millinery enterprise and because of ”a mean business deal” he was compelled to give up the venture. Attached 1 to hia affidavit Is a flvepage letter written by Mrs. Lewers to him, in which she sumo up their married life and decides that they are no longer compatible, and states her decision to separate. An application for alimony and counsel’s fee had been made to Justice Page.