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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY THE LAW & ENTICEMENT The Very Idea!
By ALFRED FELLOWS
Now that the smoke has cleared away at Washington, it is evident that the acts of the last three
Until recently there was much present day, when he has no legal months have started the United doubt whether an action by a wife control whatever over her, in body States off at one of tha most against a person who successfully or estate, it is an anachronism. rapid clips ever attained. But it urged her husband to leave home is not at all clear in what direction, could bó maintained by English
resolved
kind
was
-- UNSUCCESSFUL GRAFTING.
EDUCATION
BY EDDIE KELLY, ILLITERATE
QUR
JR modern, educational, system is all wrong,
The moral underlying all these and something should be: plient with their ridiculous Im done about it for the sake plications and parallels to Helen of Troy and otherwise, is the old one of posterity and Edward that feminine emancipation cannot Kelly, Junior. successfully: bo grafted on a basis
still permeates the Divorce Court
Sometimes it seems that Ameri-award by the judges in two or ca is heading toward socialism; three modern cases, the most re- sometimes to be swinging off for cent, of course, being that of Now state capitallam of a that ton v. Hardy, just heard and decid-
of the old Ecclesiastical law, which It's too late for we grown- will make Signor Mussolini's od by Mr. Justice Swift. Fasciam look watery. Nobody can
In the Tenth Commandment the and many of the legal relations of ups. Nothing we can do can tell, to-day, and so far. nobody Israelito's wife was ranged with his husband and wife. For that old alter the fact that women ox and his ass as property which law was essentially founded on the have been taught too much. seems to care very much. Tho his fellow-Israelite was forbidden band. Although it onsured
subjection of the wife to the hus- tho
Education is what does it. important thing is that a great to covet, and the notion that a wife subjection in its own way, it con-
Dietrich might experiment is being made. That, is the property of her husband cer- ceded the married woman valuable Marlene In fact, is one of the most interest-tainly coloured the old law of Eng-immunities based on the theory of have started some women wear-
her subjection. Ing things about the нез pro-land, though its harshness
Briefly, she has now contrived to ing pants, but in our family the gramme. Roosevelt has passed mitigated by the legal duties he jettison the subjection and retain wife has been doing it long be- one great fork in the road-away owed to hor. It was established in the Immunities. The late Mrs. fore the film atar thought of it. from the freo individualism of early days that a husband could re- Jackson, of Clitheroe, ́established
that a wife can It was different in our grand- cover damingea against anyone, man the proposition
Women didn't or woman, who persuaded his wife walk out of her husband's house father's day. to leave his household against his and desert him without interference bother about arithmetic or goome-
on his part or legal inconvenience, try or anything like that. will.
and a less well-known Mrs. Michell Years ago, for instance, a_wo- The basis of the action by either proved that, when she does so, she man would say to hubby: "Pota, husband or wife, on the law as now retains her "restrained" income doar, what would happen if a wo- expounded, is the loss
of what free from all claims on his part man walked into the Hongkong. lawyers call the "consortium," or, The doctrine of the old law was Hotel and had a drink?" more colloquially, domestic bliss. that married people ought to live The domestic bliss of one spouse together. The doctrine of the new depends on the continued affection law is that this is not obligatory if and society of the other, vowed at either spouse finds the other incon- the altar or before the registrar as venient or tiresome. Whichever Lump together those remarkable the case may be, and the Intruder of these doctrines is right, both of recovery measures-industrial con- who, by luring that other away, them cannot be, and a law founded trol, farm relief, Muscle Shoals, doprives the first spouse of such on both cannot be otherwise than inflation, mortgage relief and so blies has dona him or her an action- unjust and anomalous. on and you find that the Preal-able wrong. This is now hold to bo the law of England, following dent has not committed himself. Canada, and many of the American Capitalism gets a chance to prove States. that it can follow out a plan in which
the past, but the main fork la still ahead. The country still has plenty of time to decide whether to go on to outright socialism or whether to build progress
on R
controlled, carefully regulated
capitalism.
NOT COMMITTED
In practice, however, the right of
REDISCOVERING
And Pete would grunt, and tell. her not to ask damfool questions. Nowadays, what with education, everything is different. She can add two and two, if you give her enough paper and sharpen her pencil, and arrive at the correct figure three times out of four.
In the olden' days a man would say to his blushing bride, "Now, darling, I earn $600 a month, as you know. I shall need $50 for Club foes, $75 for tifins, and $125
action is almost worthless, for it BRITAIN'S CAKES for incidentals. That will leave
the
you $200 to carry month, won't it?"
on
for the
He'd invariably get away with It, but he can't now. They've been educated.
involves positive proof, in words of Lord Justice Greer, that persuadedant "procured, enticed, or BY J. W. BANFIELD, M.P. persuaded" the orring spouse from his or her allegiance. This, of
"Bring me something plainer, course, is very difficult to establish, picase."
Why, most of them even read the At those words in a feminine voice newspapers. Not only are the especially if, as usually happens, the enticed one is ready to testify from a nearby tablo 1 looked up and women reading the newspapers, so orginal sin rather than por- saw a walter taking back the but the newspapers are starting to suasion as a guiding motive for proffered plate of "ailcky" pantries. cater for them. All the splash This was at a scaside resort a fow headlines gone on articles about the "desertion."
Sundays ago.
dresses and hats and things of nó dainty which has long held sway in important, subjects like body-line The beautiful-looking Continental interest whatever to mon, while Great Britain is going out of fashion. bowling, the cabaret question and
Hidden away in unsuspected corners
with
the interests of the average citizen will be fully protected. The great fields of manufacturing, transporta. THE CABARETS tion, finance, agriculture and dis- tribution are still held by their The Hon. LG.P. is mistaken in original owners. If they can pro- his interpretation of our policy duce a satisfactory result during on the cabaret question. We do the next years, well and good. We not take sides in the sense im- are going to get a good Idea of plied in this or any other matter what a government can do. Is it
For nearly fifty years, however, of public interest. When dan capable of running a large, publicly-
owned industry, of overseeing every the appropriate remedy against a cing academies were first intro- sort of commercial and financial spouse who leaves the home and so duced to the Colony, they brought with them certain un activity, of maintaining decent breaks it up has been farcical, for
judges since 1884 have had desirable features and no off-wage levels and stabilising mon-effective power to enforce a decree of memorable cakea. In the West of Happy Valley are crammed over no throughout the country are all kinds the pari-mutuel prices out at cial action was taken. Their ey and prices?
on one side. The American for the restitution of conjugal England, for instance, there aro
We object, for instance, to sam- growth in popularity has been experiment is worth acrious study. rights otherwise than by a main- villages where a holidaymaker may
tenance order against a husband. still find those famous scenes nade Ing across an article describing accompanied by a steady im-
By the "man-made law,"
Bour buttermilk, the topa dusted the perfect husband. Isn't there provement and it is quite fair:
how with flour, and baked in the old enough misery in the world to-day over, the wealthy woman who to say to-day that they are well- THAT SILVER CONTRACT
fashioned stone-tiled ovens. These, without having ideas like that breaks up another woman's home indeed, are scones plus that little shoved in front of our wives? conducted. To illustrate, it is
in this way can do so with im- something the others haven't got. only necessary to mention that
Dividing thirty-five million punity so far as the Divorce Court FEW UNIVERSAL" CAKES. those who frequent them feel no ounces of silver among five coun- is concerned, except for costs.! reluctance about taking their tries is clearly a more technical This contrast may perhaps bo com-
Except for Madeiro cake, invented mended to the group of women who hundreds of years ago to offset the own partners. At this stage, problem than would seem apparent are still loudly denouncing the delicate flavour of the fowly imported in Hongokng will come down to Hoping that the price of beer Government is legialating to pro-to the uninitiated. It would be Inequality of the sexes before the Madeira wine, and the apongo cakes fifty cents is being as optimistic vide measures for control, and
without which no Victorian party was as the Scotsman who swallowed it is foreshadowed that the mid-extremely interesting to know the law.
process by which it was decided Another example of that incomplete, few of our cakea have yet penny and then ate yeast to raise night closing hour, imposed by that Canada, for instance, should equality is the fact that a husband achieved anything like universality. the police arbitrarily a week or
Bath bune, Chelsen buna, so ago, will be endowed with the absorb-1,671,802-ounces into her remains liable for his wife's forts. Bakewell tarts, and the famous Ban
For the husband who has to pay a bury cakes are now. obtainable for authority of law. It is also pro-Treasury, while Mexico's quota is large sum of money because his from their homes, you still must go posed, or so we understand, to to be 7,159,108 ounces.
The con- wife deserts him and seduces an- for a real Eccles cake to Lancashire, concentrate all dancing estab-tract has been signed, otherwise other man may well complain that where they use a special mixing with lishments in one area, where we should fear the possibility of a the law not only leaves him defence- demerara sugar and currants as prin-
less against the insult, but adds cipal ingrediente.
What would you think, for they will not interfere with the last-minute breakdown on the score
injury to it. In the days when a It is much the same with Scotch instance, of a place where you can peaceful enjoyment by a house that one country was being ro husband took and spent his wife's gridle cakes, which are baked very got as much beer as you can drink.
sharply on a hot-plate. These de- holder of his night's repose. quired to take an ounce more than fucome-they aro so long ago now Heious things, like the genuine Scotch for sixpence, with potato chips, If this is not included in the its fair share or something of that most people have forgotten shortbread, need in their making a peanuts, onion pickles, fried Bah, Government programme, we that kind. Speaking broadly, the them--and also could cause her to Scotsman's skill, which seems to defy pigs trotters and a great big strongly urge that it should be average man is inclined to look be imprisoned if she deserted him, imitation. I often wonder whether counter tunch thrown in. Just but it is inconsistent with rigi- rather questioningly at an agreeing home, it was right and just that baker's craft in Scotland, and the
or even forcibly prevent her leay the remarkably high standard of the think of it, all for sixpence.
Don't ask us where it is? We dity of hours. We have enough mont which demands such attention he should be responsible for her success of the Scotch bakeries in London't know. But just think of it. grandmotherly legislation on our to minuto fractions for common wrongs to other peopic. In
(Continued on Next Columns.)
acceptance. Round figures would have looked much nicer and would have been much more impressive as
4 measure of the freedom and the
Statute Book without adding to it. We have heard a lot of specious talk on cabarets. We have heard a good deal of idle talk. And we have heard a con- siderable amount of arrant non- spirit in which the signatories sense. But the mere fact that entered into the agreement. Still, cabarets consider it worth while we suppose we ought to congratu- to open their doors at all in the late them on the fact that the montir of July in one of the most quotas total up all right. uncomfortable summers for a decade presents an irrefutable
argument in their favour. And MAN'S GRIEVANCE if they are to be confined to a district where they cannot be a
Is it not quito time that a short nuisance to people who desire to Act were passed ́ ́to abolish the sleep, we cannot think of a single liability of a husband for his wife's logical reason for restricting to torts? In an "enticing" case de specified hours the harmless amusement derived by their elded in London recently, had the clientele. It is not as though the claim put forward succeeded, it same. persons attend the same would have meant, in effect, that cabarots every night; those who a husband paid damages for his might possibly be regarded as wife's adultery to the wife of the habitues are the idler typo who man with whom she committed it! do not need to and would not go | That would Indeed, as the judge to bed whether they happened | said, пррозг Gilbertion. But to be at the cabaret or at a res- situations only a littlo lesa so are taurant at West Point where the of fairly common occurrence, and curfew is not known. What dis- will continue to be, while this tinction docs Grundyism make ancient liability remaing. Nobody between a West Point restaur- who has married a wife fond of ant and a dancing academy that saying libellous and slanderous dictates discrimination against
things (and local ton-tablo talk the cabaret? If there is some thing objectionable, let us shut gives a man many nervous thom up altogether. If there is menta) is ever safe from being nothing radically wrong, we con- mulcted, and perhaps ruined, by tend that the hours question, in her long tongue or thoughtless pen, the city district, does not gen- which ho may not have the alightest uinely come within the province power to control. Whon wives oven of a government of benovo vero, seris, of course, the liability. fent autoarnest
Was more ronsonable.
mo-
tho
"Can't you come back later for the tickets? Ire'll ba
bross if we wake him now.
money.
BEER'S HOW
It's hoping against hops."
Can you imagine it, though. Two bears for the price of one. Thero'a plenty of other places in the world where they do you even better than that.
NOW YOU TELL ONE
There is a well known brand of motor cycle named the Ascot Pullin. (For this free advertise- ment we will accept a tyre-tread design suitable for summer suit-` Ings). In re, and following up aforesaid unasked for informa- tion, we beg to tell you the follow- ing
Facetious person met friend in Y.M.C.A. at Kowloon. Motor cycl- ing friend had ono (1) black eye, alao gravel rash on same side of face.
Said facetious friend, facetious- ly pointing at injured face of what motor-cycling person:
namo dat faller?"
Sald motor cyclist tersely and without imagination:
Ascot Pallin"
Then," sald facetious friend, "I'm keepin' off Scotch dontists.
Cravings of pardons, but the excune is, it's true. We never tell Has on a Thursday. Our wifo doesn't bollave us. Besides,A man has to use even the truth when he's got to fill up a column."
don, may not be due to the insistence throughout Scotland, upon proper apprenticeship.
Bhrewsbury cakes,
for evor in the Ingoldsby Legends," are another speciality which travel afleid; but naver quite in their original formi These little round cakes, are bakod upon wires. Another luscious-con- fection, the true "type of which, fe obtainablə only at Richmond, is the historic Maid of Honour IE
Throughout the Midlands the saltys Junir allan firm favourite, Vithi
Continted on Parade