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WIFE WHO LEFT HOME.
AGED RECTOR'S APPEAL DISMISSED.
SUSPENDED FROM-DUFIES.
In the Divisional Divorce Court last month an appeal was beard by Lady de Bathe in the days when the Rev. William Edgar Williams, the was Lily Langtry, was the out- standing beauty of her generation of the Rectory, Little Hongeram, On her 7th birthday, writing in Kent, "from a finding of the Wing the Daily Mail," the looks back ham (Kent) Justices, holding that at the beautiful women of her time and decides that the girls of to-be had deserted his wife, in day, by contract, lack radiance, Louisa Jane Williams, now of and all look alike."
Blenheim-road, Deal
one,
Every year we live in is a better That is my honest opinion, after having lived through what has been, after all," a very event ful period.
Mr. Cotes Preedy submitted that the decision of the court below might have been different had Mr. Williams, been legally represented Unfortunately he appeared in per. son He denied his wife's allega tion that he drank too much.
At the former hearing the origina! summons, said Mr. Cotes-Preedy, altered by consent to alleged persistent cruelty, but was desertion based on the alleged cruelty. The arder, he submitted, ought never to
It was not until I was nearly fifteen years old that I saw my first railway train (it went at a slug's pace over three miles of track in Jersey, where I was born), and now, as I am writing, a Zep pelin is trying to By the Atlantic
It is all very wonderful and in-have been made. creasingly interesting for anyone who is still well enough to appre ciate what is going on in the world..
The Comfort Of Today. Yes People who talk about the good old days have forgotten the nuisance of having no telephone, no electricity, no fast, comfortable
They have forgotten how they used to pay visits to country houses where it was always cold, where the drawing rooms were badly lighted with oil lamps, where you only had candles in your bedroom, and where, consequently, you were always covered with 'wax.
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Without calling on counsel for the wife Lord Merrivale decided in favour of the wife. He said the seriousness of the case phasised by the fact that the appellant had been suspended from the exercise of his spiritual func tions until he was cleared of the imputations against him. But the case had to be dealt with in the same way as that of a poor per Son or anyone else;"
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44Opprobrious Language.".
The rector was a widower in the
DIARY OF EVENTS.
To-day.
Hockey YMCA XI. Ground, 6 p.m. HES. RA 2nd XI, Marina
Theatre Royal, 9.13 p.m.
"Sport of King's": H.K.A.D.C.,
Mei Lan Fang, Ko Shing Theatre, 8 p.m...
The Play
Queen's Theatre: Girl.” -
World Theatre: Fraud."
"The Cheerful
Love."
Star Theatre: In the Name of
Tea Dacce: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. Hotel, & p.m.; St. Francis Hotel, 8 Dinner Dances: King Edward
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Football-Midweek League: W.D. Chinese e. Lam Long Wax, Police, Chinese, Ewo Chinese v. South China..
Ko Shing
Mei Lan Fang, Theatre, 8 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: The Play Girl"
Fraud."
World Theatre: "The Cheerful
.Star Theatre: "In the Name of Love,"
sixties when he remarried. His Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 wife was in the forties and had been F.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m. happy one, and Rotember last 8 pm 4 nurse. The marrigas DOL A Dinner Danone St Francis Hotels the wife left home.
Europe vid Siberia (Hupch), 1.30 Principal Mails:-Outward:
She said that she was told to go she also said that there had been with opprobrious" language, and p.m. treatment of her during the marri- ed life which seriously affected her
Thursday. (November 22nd.)
We used to have gas in the theatre in the old days of the Hay-health and which a married woman market, but that was almost worse
Was "not expected to put up with.
Chamber Music Concert-arranged The summons, which was original by Mrs Balean,, Helena May than the oil lamps. Night after I for "persistent cruelty, was Institute, 3.30 p.m. night I used to feel very sick and amended to one of desertion. That have terrible headaches, I felt simply meant that the treatment of that I wanted to die. I was being the wife fell so far short of what gassed every evening that I was reasonable comfort and a proper she was entitled to expect that her performing there.
regard for ber health made it right for her to leave the home."
The comfort of to-day is very pleasant; it is also very necessary. We live at such a rate nowadays that we could not carry on for month under the old conditions. am in my-seventies, and yet dur- ing the epurse of the day I get through twice as much as I did when I was a young woman.
No Radiant Beauties. London has seen many changes in her manners and modes in the past fifty years
Take women, for example. You never see a radiant beauty nowa days; it is difficuls to explain what I mean by radiant, but I remem ber Lord Rosebery using the phrase when he was explaining that a woman he knew seemed to bring aunshine into the room.
To-day women are becoming so standardised in figure and dress that they all seem to look like each other. You can see half à dozen women all sitting round the same table, all shaven and shorn, all in tight little felt hats, and all in the same severely cut uniform.
Because that is what it really is nowadaya, In Vistorian times we all used to dress differently.. I for example, used to wear no jewel léty. did my hair in a special way. I used to wear black nearly always, with skirts of & peculiarly trailing description, shoulders slashed with white or gold, and 'a. deep collar of Venetian lace.
The justices came to the conclu- sion that there had been treatment which made it proper for the wife to go, and that amounted to legal desertion by the husband:
that finding, and the order for the There was evidence to support
payment to the wife of £2 25. a week maintenance was not oppressive... As to other consequences, if any. body raised the question as to whe ther the finding of the justices re- flected on the competency of the rector to officiate was a clergyman then that could be dealt with che where. Apa
Mr. Justice Hill concurred and the appeal was dismissed.
A.D.O., Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
"The Sport of King's". H.K.
ment System," p.tn.
Y.M.C.A. Debate "The Instal
Mei Lan Fang, Ko Shing Theatre, 8 p.m.'
Queen's Theatre: "West Point." World Theatre: "Mad Power." Star Theatre: Jazz Mad," 2.30 to 8:30...
Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel. 4.30p.m. Dinner Dance; St. Francis Hotel, 8 p.m.
Friday.
(November 23rd.) Helena May Institute, 10:30 am.
Christian Fellowship Meeting,
Hockey Y.M.C.A. 2nd XI. v. H.K. Club "A", ·p.m. .
Practice Dance for St. Andrew's Ball, City Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Mei Lar
Fang, Ke Shing Theatre, 8 p.m. More Attractive Now.
Queen's Theatre: "West Point.”. On the whole women and men World Theatre: "Man Power." are much more attractive to look at, however, than they used to be.
Star Theatre: Jazz Mad," Their bands in particular have im-
Tea Dances: HK Hotel, 4.30 proved. I believe. I was the first .m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 pm. roman in England to have my Principal Mails:-Inward: Europe hands manicured. To-day nearly Europe vid Suez (Naldera). Out- every woman does so and many ward: Europe vid Siberia (Nal- men as well. In my young days dera), 2.30 p.m. hands.. Women frequently had men often had sadly neglected shiny noses,
A Horse Faced Woman. But still women did not have such hard faces as they do now,
Winston Churchill's Mother. Mrs. Cornwallis West wore her golden hair in little curls on the top of her head, white at the back of the neck it was as short as it is the fabion to day. In contrast like you."
she loved bright colours, and me
to
Her husband then approached
I have seen her in a black velvet and said, "Yes, my wife has al toque with as many as five differ
Saturday. (November 24th.).
Fanling Hugt, Steeple Chase.
The Sport of King's
H.K.
Cricket:1st Division: R. Navy
I shall never forget how, a year A.D.C., Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m. or two ago, at Monte Carlo a positively horse-faced woman came ap to me and said, "I have al-7. Chinese R.C., Craigengower ways wanted to meet you, Lady Kowloon, IRO. C.B.CC. (F). de Bathe, because people are al- 2nd Division: R. Navy. R.AS.C., ways telling me how much I look Craigenguwer v. Kowloon, C.8.C.C.
1. H.K. Electric,
Football: Lai Wah Cup, Civiliana *. Chinese."
Mei Lan Fang, K
Ko Shing. Theatre, 8 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "West Point" World Theatre: "Man Power"! Star Theatre: Jazz Mad Tes Dance: H.K Hotel, 430 p.m. Restaurant, King Edward Hotel, Dinner Dances: Lane. Crawford's
ently coloured ostrich feathers of ways been known as the Jersey red and orange. Lady de Grey Lily of Australia."
she was a radiant beauty; Lady I could not think what to say. Dudley, dark and long-necked; the Again, quite recently, another wo- Duchess of Leinster, a beauty of man, whose face really seemed to the opulent type, all dressed dis have slipped sideways, told me that tinctively.
she, too, was considered to look like Fifty years ago there were more me, though she admitted that she beauties but far fewer pretty wo was thought to be a good deal. men. Women to-day ought to have, handsomer.
the
and St. Francis Hotel, à p.m.-ve
of their convictions courage
That, again, was an awkward-ten Zuddasawy, potem bo Bereava aped by
of looks, instead of dressing liks saying. Of course, it is a curious Europe vid Marseilles (Khyber) their next door neighbour thing how one never knows quite 10.30 am Europe ud. Siberia
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