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Under the heading, a Bill "to Raise Living Costs, Hamper Trade, and for other Purnases," the New
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THE IMMUNITY OF WIVES
Anomalies in the Law.
In the midst of the furare for the wireless telephone, it
[BY HELENA NORMANTON.Į is the interesting to give
ex-
The present position of the periances of an amateur operator k duarnal of Counter says: married woman is indeed a ming resident in the North of London,
The general impression received (ling of comedy and tragedy. Glad who has been experimenting for
the business community must she be at heart that the Lord two years, says the News of the Wold Haring been attached to at large upon a perusal of the naw Chancellor has appointed a Com- a wireless station in France and tariff bill is unquestionably that mittes of Legal Experts to go into So crude the whole question of the law as on the Rhine he found on des of stunned surprise. mobilisation that he was only sad outrageous has the Fordner between man and woman. Tha:) just beginning to get interested measure baan considered that Committee's work and report is a The whole subject of the wrongs in this fascinating subject. He most trade interests undoubtedly matter for esger expectation. therefore purchased various regarded it as a joke. Difficulties parts, set them up, perfecting the and friction in the Senate Com-committed, independent of con- mittes have been such that therefracts-in other words, torta-ol installation as his experience widened. As a result he is in was belief in many quarters in a married people is in an unsatis possession of a splendidly-tuned material lightening of the Ford-factory position. A husband is "They and sensitive wireless station by nes plans. The outcome shows liable for the tarts his wife com- means of which he is able to that the commercial world is mits during marriage. intercept messages in morse code menaced with what must be little are the torts of her husband, and from ships, land stations, and short of a disaster to it, while the therefore she creates as against private messages from amateurs. tank and file of consumers face her husband a liability." said the learned Jessel, Master of the Pilots in aeroplanes on the dangers of equal importance.
An outstanding fact eviden: Rolls, in Wainford v. Her Hox! 'London-Paris route can be heard in conversation and instructions upon a glance through the variousjever, for wrongs the wife bas can also be picked up from air schedules is that the new bill committed before her marriage tations, like Croydon and enstitutes an enormous advance, her bushaad need pay damages' Lympne. The most enjoyable not merely over the existing Ca-only to the extent of whatever feature of the apparatus, how-derwood rates, but even over the property be may have acquired ever, is the receiving of splendid Payne-Aldrich rates. The framers from her.
FRAUD MADE EASY. of the measure are said to admit from concerts transmitted
Again, if a wife's separate) stations at The Hague, Eiffel that there is a "slight increase. Tower, and Writtle (Essex). In The fact is that, due to changes estate is settled" and she is pro- order that the whole family should in classification, to the introducected by a elsuse preventing her hear these the receiver is con-tion of combinations of specific from anticipating her income (the nected to the sound box of anand ad valorem duties and to histone restraint upon anticipa-
By this other expedients, the rates have ion") both her hushand and he ordinary gramophone.
very greatly enlarged. creditors cannot have resort to *method the sounds are magnified, bea
seems
of
was
as it were, and everybody in the There is also evidently the usual her future income. A fraudulent "jokers." Precisely married woman thus has her pathị room can hear delightful music crop
where these are to be found in made easy. as clearly as in the concert-roomall cases it will be for the trade And as to the fact recently te The range of this amateur's station is not limited to Europe,o determine, but there are not stated a: Greenwich that an ag- for be can listen into Washing few of them which are evident grieved husband has no remedy The Payne-in law if his wife has defamed 100, Cairo, and other places, sont on the surface.
notoriously him, it is remarkable that the three or four thousand miles Aldrich bill
vitiated by such jokers, but there majority of men do not tremble AWAY. Our reader invited a
abundant ground for in their shoes at their position. It "News of the World" represent-
believing that it will be speaks volumes for the discretion ative and an ex-wireless officer
exceeded by the new measure and law abidingness of the aver of the White Star liner "Baltic to look over his station. The That is ordinarily the ease where age woman that their bustands conflict of industrial and sleep sound of nights when one: installation, all told. Cua: him
It is, of political interests is at work on reflects how tenderly the law pro about £35. course, an elaborate afair, being such a bill. Concealed protection tects & slanderous woman from so made that, should the electric is among the worst forms of the consequences of her misdeeds. current fail, ship and land economic legislation. messages in Morse code and tele- phony can be intercepted by the superacial objections to the means of a crystal reception. The rates
a
Neither spouse in a marriage More important perhaps ths can sue each other for personal torts, such as slander or malicious
sad language of this prosecution, not even if a divorce ex-wireless officer, who, during measure is the fact that provision bas supervened and the wrong the war was accustomed only to made for another advance of accurred during the time of their the crystal method on the 50 per cent. if conditions should domestic partnership.
This veto on litigation doubt- ships, was "all at sea" with the call for it. The President is given special valves and other innova-Power, largely in his own dis-less pacifies the Grundian and side of public fions. By various manipulations cretion, to make additions up to Pecksniffin we were able to hear with amaz-5 per cent to rates whenever he opinion. Washing dirty linen in ing clearness an amateur speak-deems best. When will be deer public is never a pretty process. ing some miles distant, and a par-best to take this step. The act But doubtless in certain cases son playing a popular tune on the specifies certain broad circum-these suppressions and denials off piano. In quick succession.mes-stances which may govern bis remedies for wrongs lead on to conduct, but it is to be feared worse hatreds, and the hatreds Pages transmitted from Germany that these are so vaguely express help to pack the Divorce Courts. Moscow, Lyons, Bordeaux, Wash-1 ngton, and ships in the Atlantic, led as to permit the increases
MARRIED WOMAN'S DILEMMA.
agency"
to take Mace whenever A Protected 10 crime by the were taken down. On many occasions our reader has picked showing of acreased importation coercion theory, protected in tort or of special competitive cir- by the conception of woman as up some highly interesting news. On the day of the destruction of cumstances is placed before him- joined in a molluscous sort of! the R.38 at Hull he intercepted There is every reason to fear that unity with her husband, protected į russiges between the authorities we are entering upon a period of
theory but visited by ample! on the spot and the Air Ministry hopeless tariff confusion and dia contract by the with the result that he knew the turbance, due to executive inter-penalties in the divorce laws and ference with rates, and resulting io everything affecting ber particulars of the accident and the death rall before the newspapers schedules than now exist.
in an even more distorted set of children and liable to dismissal obtained them. At night messages
from pablic paste in spite of a Retaliation of an extreme so law expressly saying that marri- can be received more clearly than in the day, while the range may also be applied to the goods
age is no disqualification for is also lengthened. One night of foreign countries which treat such, the average married woman may wonder where she is. She, whils: "listening in." he heard cur, producte in a way that, is the station at the Panama Canal has shown that this is not the altar, may have no voice in the considered unfair. Experience the guardian of home, bearth and sending out 2 list
the of
way in which to get relief from religious upbringing of her child! ships that passed through
foreign aggression of that type. But she may slander her husband during the day. In the same We never profitted in the slightest with impunity! district in the north of London. In amateur operator with a special the reciprocity provisions of An old dictum characterised woman as the spoilt darling of radiated from as far away as Javasty, there is ground for believing the Law." Darling, perhaps, very Several such incidents he recount that they rendered our relations much perhaps. But also, spoilt ed which shows how absorbingly with other countries worse and long ago had it not been for the interesting is the hobby. There more disturbed than they had inherent stability and moral poise of the common Englishwoman, 80 are not many who would spend been in the past. The retaliatory
of the present much superior to the Common the lime and money on such & set. provisions
far 90-0253 in It is not necessary these days, for law one firm has just placed on the powers they bestow anything that market a neat little set that will has ever been granted heretofore, and may easily result in renewed
aerial
intercepted
messages
Home
past tariff laws, but on the con-
the
Law.
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THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
Pictures of the Far East.
The one hundred and fifty- fourth exhibition of the Royal
ese Quarter-Staff Play" (902),"by Mr. Joseph Finnemore. Coming to the Architectural Room Mr. Oliver Hill gives us “Entrance to house at Tsi-nao-fo, Shantung'
not alone the entrance, but the)
(1.155), though, in truth, we have whole side of the house, one that
Appeal to thousands of people friction and controversy of an ex-dustry the like of which has The пра No. 1 Wireless Station, as the firm treme type. It is easy to say that never been suffered in the whole have aptly named their apparatus, foreigners will suffer more than tariff bistory of the United States. is & considerable advance on any we ourselves. That was true of would seem to be a conservative thing yet achieved it. this line. the war itself, but the fact did not statement of fact. Taken in con- Academy of Arts opened last On this Fet may be received ex- prevent the war from going on, or junction with the revised in month, and shows that the break does not denote anything oriental, cellent speech and music from an ourselves from suffering severely come tax bill of last autumn with old traditions which occur in that it is a white house reliev
Vesting such powers in the Pres-it
of ed in 1921 has been carried furthered by a red-tiled roof. Other draw- amateur station 20 miles away,
which on this occasion. A portrait which ings in the same room show us the besides very loud Morse code ident is like the policy of a "big burden, an imposition
as a safeguard bas never been approached shows good work is in Gallery facade of the handsome, single- signals from ships at sea. It is a army and navy
in time of peace. So soon as the VIII. (No. 386), and is of Mr story building of the Proposed complete crystal receiving station, against war.
Despite the technical setting nation really arouses itself to the Kisaburo Suga, President of the New Medical School, Singapore with aerial and all accessories.
aside of the Americaa valuation character of the Congressional Court of Appeal. Tokyo. It is by 1,194), by Major P. H. Keys, who plan the valuation provisions of action which isnow proposed it will Kasunori Ishibashi, and is a fur-lo exhibits drawings of the the bill are full of possibilities of arise in disgust and visit its disther example, if such is needed,
needing but a minute or so to fit
Up Torether with the serial in
costs £5, and has a receiving range of 1,000 miles.
Music by Wireless.
а constitutes
code
New Post Office, Government)
an alarming sort. The power to pleasuse upon the legislatore who of the way Japanese artists have Buildings and Club" (1,189), and change classifications and to im are responsible for such an outgrasped the technique of western Bailors' Home" (1,191), also In connection with the above, pose the American raluation rage. It may, nevertheless, be painting. Other paintings of some Singapore. They show the class standard when desired raste possible to pass the bill by the interest to Far Eastern people of building with which that olty the Year of the World announces
many Dual political jockeying and comprise "Betima; & Japanese is now embellishing itself. -During next Toesday's English in the President. and Wireless Concert radiated from of the sections of the tariff bargaining processes. If so, the girl (332), and "A Malay Boy" administrative provisions con-natural retribation should and 1337), by Mr. Gertrude L. Nutt, the Matcooi station at Writtle,)
KINO'S MODEL OF GOLDER Essex (7 p.m. summer time: 700tain clauses which must give unquestionably will be visited which is typical of the subject in
TEMPLE rise to the greatest possibilities upon its authors at the polls.
each case, though the Malay is metres wave longth, Mr. Lauritz
rather more dark skinned than
A model of the Golden Temple the average. Then there is rather at Amritsar, presented to the While Bath has reduced the weird building. "The Palace of King when as Prince of Wales charges for mineral waters and Hsi-King" (641), in which Mr. be visited the beadquarters of medical treatments, & further Cecil King gives us a study in Sikhism, is being lent by bis That this bill, if ayer adopted reductions is a complimentary blue masonry, edged with brown Majesty to the C.M.8. Missionary
figures are full of life is". pantural Hall, London. in anything like its present form, ticket given for every 12th, bath and gold. A picture wherein the Exhibition at the Royal Agricul must constitute & blow to in-in any course,
of unfairness. One such is found
in the provision for the sacertain-
Melchior, the world-famous Danish tenor, will sing:-
1. Ujazaks Song," from the meat of foreign costs of produc- opera "Kaddara," by Eakon Bar-tion to be used as a basis for tariff duties in certain cases. There 2." The Blind Ploughmao," by are many others. R. Coningsby Clarke:
resent.
3. "On With the Motley," from
· Pagliacci."
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