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WOMAN'S DRESS CRAZE.

BACHELOR JUDGE ON SELF- DECORATION CREED.

CALAMITY OF THE AGES.

The dress of roman has ever heen the mystery and sometimes the calamity of the ages.

This was the basis of a remarkable discourse by Mr. Justice MrCardie, the bachelor judge, in giving judgment in. the King's Bench Divizion in the ease in which Capt. J. V. Nash, of Dukestreet, W., was sued by Callot Sœurs, of Paris) and Buckingham Gate, S... for £637 for dresses supplied to his wife,

It was for the husband to decide who ther his wife should pledge his credit. A'I wife evuld ent bind her husband without his authority-and the husband moreover was to decide on the standard of living to be adoptest the matrimonial life. Hid lordship held that Mes, Nush had no ex- press or implied authority to pledge her her to do so, husband's credit.. The husband forbade

A further point to consider was, whether the articles supplied by plaintiffs wore necessaries at all.

As a lawyer and as a man of the world his emphatic opinion was that none of the articles sued for was a noorssary in either the lay or the legal Reuse of that word. In his view every item was a mers extra- vagance. Quite apart from the naturo Mr. Justice McCardie gave judgingut already and amply over-provided with and cost of the articles, Mrs. Nush was for the husband. The case, he said,fizient cothes of every sort. revealed a story of gravy and deplorable extravagance,

HUSBAND ALMOST RUÂNED.

Captain Nash denied liability and plended that he had, forbidden his wife lo pledge his credit. He stated in evi- dence that he had been alinost ruined by the extravagance of Mrs. Nash, who wished to buy the best-dressed woman in London.".

The dress of woman had been over; the mystery and sometiines the calamity of the ages, said air. Justin McCarlie. It was as true in some cases today as it was when Ovid wrote 1,000 years ago: Para minima ext 7psa puolia" ani. (The woman ja the least part of herself.) His lordship said he was satisfied that Mrs. Nash's dressing bits had been at the rate of between 12.000 and £3,000 a year. Her craving for self-embell's ment was insatiable. She sought to shine in the less intellectant section of society where a woman's worth was measured by the frequency with which she changed her dresses.

I would have been wel had she re membered the words of a famous 17th century judge. Sr. Matthew Hall, who wald: The vanity of loving fine clothes ang new fashions and valuing

The husband was correct when he said that his wife had five times more gar- ments than she needed. Mrs. Nash dress

d at the rate of more than $2.000 a year. She would have been more suitably clothed for her position if she had fixed far s than £200 a year as Eer standard.

MERELY A HUSBAND, Speaking of the plaintiffs, Collet Sœurs, Mr. Justin McCardle said no inquires, so far as appeared, were made from anyone as to Capt. Nash's means or standing. No thing was known of Capt. Nash except his address. He was merely one of a rapid

sien of husbands. He was nothing To them he was ouly an incidental tale was always kept in the name of Mrs. appartenance to Mrs. Nash. The account Nash No acount was ever sent to the hus hand. her as a woman of nouns with quickly He was ignored. They regarded changing husbands.

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The fact that a husband recompanied his wife when shoping or assisted her in the choice of garments was in itself a neutral thing. A husband's courtesy was not to be unreasonably checked by the subtle, doctrines of tradesmen seeking to fix the husband with inbility.

When 1 not ce the consequéners of Mrs Nash's slavery to fashion, added his lord. khin

1 might well apply the words of in hig "Notre Dame de

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ourselves by then is one of the most Victor Hug modes ont fait plus de mal |

childish pieces of folly that can be."

In Mr. Nigh's namerous wardrobes there were always 50 or 60 evening dresses for use night by night. Even the most expensive dress she would wear three times only. Her prodigality was on the same scale in other articles of attire. The price of her stockings was 200 francs per pair. She had many pairs,

She would buy shoes hot in pairs but in dozens of varions serta at a time Her accounts for shoes with two only of the firms amounted in less than a year to over 10,000 francs. Everything was 01

Paris Les

que le révolutions (Fashiong have wrought. more mischief than revolutions). It is deplorable to ulserve the unceasing egotism of Mrs. Nash and the recklessness with which she plunged into the tide of illicit profusion.

It was arranged that thero should be a stay of execution on the taxed costs being paid and Capt. Nash's solicitor giving an undertaking to return them in the event. of an append being successful.

the same scale, whether for hats, lingerie.| ANTI-FLIRT CLUB'S DONTS" or the like. She threw herself beneath the fatal curse of luxury.

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A passive resistance" offensive against the kerkstong lafer and flirtatious motorist will be launched in Washington by the Anti- Flirt Club (writes The Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent on March 10th The Anti-Flirt Club was organised a short time ago, according to Miss Helca Brown,

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She forgot that ostentation was the worst form of vulgarity. She ignored the sharp mence of future penury Dress and dress alone sened to have been her end in life. She sought felicity *11 the readless changes of trivial secretary by a group of young women and fashions Self decoration washer girls who have been embarrassed vision, her aim, and her creedelab plans to bring before every women's

in automobiles and on street corners."

The He observed no record of an act of und beneficence, no trace of unselEsh aid in regarding flirting us it has found them

Find girls' to

organisation in the city the facts others. She computed her enjoyment of and to life by the reckless indulgence of her to request these boxlies to devote a week to serious discussion and consideration of extravagance,

phases of the subject, Pertinent display cards and buttons are to be printed and distributed. The club has adopted a sato

of Don't," which is to be sent to other it be adopted. These admonitions are: women's organisations with the request that

Well was it did by Wm. Hazlit in one of his essays

Those who make their dress the principal part o deprives will in general become of no more value than their dress

all

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"Don't dirt! Those who firs in hasta repent in leisury."

Don't accept rides from motorists. They don't all invite you to sure you a walk."

Capt. Nash becamo suspicious of his wife's conduct in the late autumn of 1920. Te has presented a petition for divorce on the ground of his wife's alleged misconduct 'Don't go out with men you don't with two co-respondents, Just before he know-they may be married, and you seased to live with her she, apparently may be in for a bair-palling match." with a premonition of what was to happen,! Don't wink. A fatter of one eye aught to procure from various tradesmen may cause a tear in the other dresses and furs to a very large amount.

Don't anile at Birtatious strangers; save She got delivery if a fur stale priced at them for people you know." 15,000 francs.

Capt. Nash was not free from blame.

Don't fall for the slick dandy-sired take cater; the unpolished gold of a real man

Ho yielded too much in their earlier marlizarl

i+ worth more than the glass of a lounge

Don't let elderly men, with an eye to

ried life to the extrav gant intizots of his wife. "Economy was at that period of their married life aerifieed to indulgence. Yet take a fatherly interest in you. Those are a flirtation, pat you on the shoulder and it was only just to Capt. Nash to say that the kind that usually want to forget they there was no evidence of separate personalare father." extravagance.

"Don't ignore the man you are sure of "Marringe," said George Eliot in while you dirt with another. When you Middlemarch," is a taming thing." return to the first one you may find him In this case it was certainly an expensive gone.”

thing.

He was told that it was the ambition of Mrs. Nash to be the best droseed woman in London.. This his lordship presumed.. meant much she earne thing as a life of. idleness, vanity, and folly. She threw the nobility of feminine life into the dust of perpetual amusement.

In substance Mrs. Nash's Income ex- deeded the return on her husband's capital if invested. Did the fact that a wife had her separate income, however large of itself exonerate a husband from paying-her dress bills? The answer seemed to be "No."

Under the existing law a husband with 2000 a year might have to clothe his wife though she possessed £2,000 or more a Foar in her own right. Apparently the law still was that a very poor husband was legally bound to feed and dress a very rich wie It was for the husband alone to decide on the scale of domestic life. По was catitled to be his own carvez,

WIFE'S RIGHTS.

The law drew to distinction between a wife with a large income and a wife with no income at all. The wife might accu- mulate di bor income and throw, the whole burden of her keep on her husband. This rule of law was more conducive to dignity of husbands than to the self-respect of in. come posscasing rives

He need only say with the utmost clearness that a wife had no authority whatsoever by virtue of marriage alone to contract on behalf of her husband, Cohe bitadion might sometimes give hor n prima facie authority, but that authority could be rebutted (inter alia) by proof that the husband gave her an allowance or that he Frohibited her, from pledging his credit

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