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TEMPER AND MARRIAGE.

JUDGE ON ANGELS" AND "FIENDS."

During the hearing of a breach of promise case in the King's Rench division on April 18th, Mr. Justice Swift remarked that if a bad temper rendered a woman unfit for matrimony half the population of the country would never have been born.

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Plaintiff W&S Miss Dorothy Lydia Betteridge, of 50, Woodland-terrace, Old and defendant was Mr. Cecil Aias Rhodes, ütter, of 75, ano, Plumstead. The breach was but defendant pleaded that temperament gave him just causa ing the engagement.

for

Mr.

Pawell, for plaintiff, said the engaged in March, 1921, and the wedding day as

parties because if

defendant

August 5th, 1920 because it was the anniversary of the day he joined the Army. 1922, she received a letter

In

Baid,

was

Ach the engagement. In effect assorted that he only became engaged because paintill compelled him.

Defendant, in evidence,

who pro mise of marriage

but savi it was a fact that plaintiff told his mother that she guilty of a dirty low-down trick" when she kept money so as to present the welding.

Mr. Justice Swift observed that the first instanco given an exhibition of plaintiff's temper was wh

Then defencent failed to take ber out sa he had promised to

doub whether there has ever been a woman since Eve," be

who has not been angry when her man failed tu

but who has to turn up not forgotten it soon afterwards. Is a woman to be said to is unfit to marly bo cause she is a bad temper in such circum- stances?" His lordship expressed the opinim that defendant had no case to go to the jury, but ulder that he would let the levile the matter; he would ask them hier alleged bad tem- by run for matrimony. per, the plaintiff WILS

Counsel addressed the jury Mr. Justice Swift, in the course of summing up, reminded the jury that they. had nothing to do with those caridus peo- ple who advocated the abolition of actions and that

bia

for breach of promise of me called, the there should be a "close engagement period, during which a couple could the better make each other's acq

acquaint ance-that there should be an actual trial," so to speak, with either party at liberty to retreat without penalty, That view was wrong. In the preseirs cise the contract, in the eye of the law, was like any commercial contract; it was binding in law, and the same principles must apply to its contruction as to, any other. It was not sufficient to show that to expecta did not come up the indy, vidly who was engaged to be tions, married," say his lordship,

come up to expectations (Laughter.) Love is proverbially blind. (Laughter.) Doubt less, members of the jary knew what it was to have courted an angel, and found, after marriage, that she was a mere human woman like the rest (Laughter.)

"Everybody's wife said is lordship later, is, of course, the most angelic- that exists, but everybody tempered person bag neighbours who have wives whose

of tempers are the tempers perfect Bends. (Laughter.) Yet you would not say that. these wives were anfit for matrimony. The nere fact that a woman has a temper does half matrimony, or not render her aufit for

this country would never the mothers

bave heen born. (Laughter) Half

of this country are women who at times can It is not. display a good deal of temper. sufficient that the plaintiff should have

a temper; there dust be evidence of Bach bad temper that you can honestly say she is shown to have a character aud tem- perament which render her unfit for matri mony Discussing what plainiff had lost. tiori.

as a result of the engagement's teatter

his lordship alluded to Mr. Eanessa that defendant was a well-bought up so

probably occurredi 20 you,” he added, "that he has gone through life with a good deal of (Laugh pron-string attached to his nucl"

The jury awarded platatiff £30 damages on the claim and found for defendant on the counterclaim for this return of certain goods or £1 their value. Jadgment was entered accordingly, but stay of execution was grant ed to enable the parties agree as to a reaction in the damages in lieu of the return of the goods.

THE DOWER OF UGLINESS.

Many optimists have done what they could to encourage matrimony, It is, how evor, olmarvel that they incline to avold witnessing the consequences The man who

assign a part of his fortune to provide dowrise for

net complete the derving spinstera does

but

in: his lifetime,

loaves it to his executors to see the thing through. Such sanguine yet wary friends of humanity have generally asked no other quication

tion from the damsels seeking en- thau virtus. It has been reserved

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fer M. Nicolas Ivannou Zakkas to discover a new title to subsidice. His will bequeathes the sum of forty Turkish pounds for the marriage of each of two poor orphan girls, the plainest to be found in the Orthodox Cominuaities of Stavrodromic and Neo- We are not acquainted with the andard of comeliness which obtains in those societies, but it is obvious that there might be some difficulty in selecting the candidates. Ruskin has taught us that ugliness is rare, and,

and, however difficult in this as in other matter we find it to make the noble doctrine of the master agree with coarse fact, we cannot suppose, wo cannot aven wish, that it will ever be easy to pro- care general agreement as to whom the now golden apple for the ugliest should be given. One man's tacat is another man's poison, and

compete. This may suggest interesting mca cannot agree aineng themselves which dimsel looks worst, far inore difficult they speculations as to whether it will be a meek consciousness of a plain face or an lind it to arrive at any worlding agreciantys to the main chance that bringe the

with wanien, A cheery

dip on the subject.

orthodox dameel of Slavrodromin to French epigram assures us that the only in the lacky-tog. But on a fall com

the approve cannot to look pretty.

But

of H. Zakkee

It is solution. In the popular plays it is against public policy to put a premiam comings to

a to find that the only difference be on the marriage of the ugly. An eighteenth tween beanty and ugliness

afrock and century wit laid it down that ugliness in a fashion of hairdrester,

The philosophy woman is a letter, of credit, but he seems to would not a have failed to persuade the world that it can metamorphosis. If beauty were be trusted.. Handsome is, no doubt, a may b gly sisters for Fugliness, bat free the best creatures

world, and Cin

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bridegroom or bride. ing the objects for his endowment. The when the man would not marry her unleas supremacy in ugliness, ho, proposed, should he were paid for it. The orthodox but ugly tp be determined by lot, some general level of damsels of the Bosphorus would be wise unicomalinéas being apparently assumed among the damsels who come forwanl to avoid the dower. After all, no woman wa

over to plain that everyone thought her so- (Continued af foot of nézt column.)

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