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BONN DIVORCE SUITS.

NO ROMANTIC VILLAINS?

COSTS PROBLEM,

WIFE'S MONEY.

LONDON, July 28th- The payment of · the "costa- estimated to be

in the neighbour hood of £30,000 in the first part of the Boan matrimonial proceedings was discussed by counsel.

After-fourteen days" trial, ending last Friday. the jury found that Lady Boun's charges against her husband, Sir Max Julius Philip Bonn, of adultery in London with Cecile Benoist and in Paris with &

woman unknown had not been made out. The petition was, therefore, dismissed, and the question of costs reserved for discussion.

MODERN YOUNG MEN LIKE VICTORIAN WOMEN.

[BY PAMELA FRANKAU.]

Once upon a time, about 1870, there were Villains-bold, bad, men with black moustaches and pepper. and-aait trousers, who drank, wore, and gambled, and frightened women to swooning point:

When they entered the ballroom, chaperones gathered their flattering brood into safety and dowagers ew in their skirts with visible apprehension.

WOMAN AND MONEY- LENDER.

STORY OF HIS REQUEST FOR A KISS

EXTRAORDINARY OFFICE SCENES

Miss Maud Blandford, a secre tary Kensington Gardens Aquaro, moneylender, of Gloucester road, W sued Mr. A. Applestone,

Finsbury Park, at Westminster County Court for £1 55 paid in connection with negotiations for a loan which was not made.

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woman, said that she

Mia Blandford, a grey-haired

·wanted money to pursue some studies, and The Taming Influence Of Marriage, saying that she would be grate advertised in a morning paper, Where are they now, those brave ful to a philanthropist for the lady-killers of the past! In their loan of £50. She received a re- stead are pale, slender young men Ply from Mr. Applestone, and call-

ed upon him on October 11th at TJIMANOEK Sirho are rather frightened of wo his office in Piccadilly. She did

TJISAROKA then in general, and of hostesses not know he was a moneylender.

After talking of the lost, he in particular, and whose one am-said, "What do I got out of it TISALAR bition it is to be left quietly alone. She told him she thought she had Not even the film is reffecting them come to s philanthropist, and had

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scientific and clean-shaven stageed the blinds down. He put his any more, and Mr. Edgar Wallace's no security to offer.

After talking some tima hè pull-

On behalf of Lady Bonn, Ellis Hume-Williams, K.C., applied

for her costs.

Sir Walter Schwabe, for Sir Max. said he proposed at some time or other to ask for the husband's costs to be paid by Lady Bonn.

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squeese her, and said, "Not one kiss even. She said JK I think you have made a big mistake.” She did not scream

Sir Ellis Hume-Williams said the fezooks are a different type alto-arms round her waist, tried to principle which he asked the court to adopt was that the wife was entitled to her costs that being, of course, for the benefit of her solicitors unless it was clear to the court that the solicitors either did know or ought to have known, that the case could not succeed.

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As for the original "bucks," they have many of them ended their sinful lives, either by death or Judge Tobin Why not I did f marriage. One elderly bachelor of not see why I should I saw he TJITAROEM my acquaintance is unmistakably a war & bit ashamed of himself. one feels that he ought to have thropist, a man who loves all men, living relic of that dashing period: Judge Tobin: What is a philan TJISONDARE.

TILEBOET been called "Beau So-and-So.counting "all" si both sexes? But the ballrooms of Mayfair know Miss Blandford added that she them re more.........

called again and he told her he TJIKEMBANG must have £1 ta for inquiries Ho JIKINI got the money; Eater he wrote asking for security. She said she had no security to offer and asked

He admitted that he could not:

A Welcome For Lady-killers. justify the methods of the head of

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Hr. Applestone: It is a fabrica-

come to Londor to give evidence: spade-shaped beards from their stock-in-trarle. A young woman But what more could the solicitors can go where she likes nowadays do the circumstances than they without a tremor. And in that

Judge Tobin: Why did you did! It was no use sending Eng-there is no excitement, and very write to her at all, sa abs advertis

ittle pleasure.

ed för, a philanthropist ↑ Or why fish inquiry agents to France be Men, not tremulous and flatter not write: I am not a philan cause they could not speak the ing little maids from school, are thrapist, but a moneyleader who language..

the prey in modern Mayfair. They will advance you on reasonable are a minority, and a poor minority terms-It is quite a commen at that, with very litle fight left thing for moneylenders to do, to in them. They are tracked down write to people.

Lord Merrivale said it was stated that Leoni was warned that under

Judge Tobin gave judgment for English law if any inducements were to their lair by many-daughtered

dowagers, whose invitations pursue Miss Blandford for 25 and allow Held out to a witness to give evi- them remorselessly wherever theyed her £1 1 and her solicitor £ dence it would invalidate such evi-go. Mothers no longer:

disap dence. Yet Leani, it was said, held prove of certain men who have our the most powerful inducement

"dangerous reputations." Men,

he could to a woman of Cecile Benoist's clase, -

Detective's Coats. What occurred to him (Lord Merrivale) was whether it would be proper for the machinery of the court to be used for the payment of "Leoni's costs Leoni's persua sions were very subtle and power

Sir Ellis Hume-Williams: I ad- mit he went too far, but as soon as the solicitors discovered it they put the matter right.

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Miss Hardcastle said to a re porter: "Once: I have done my duty to my mother I am ready to face the responsibilities of a wife. I kau the dangers of marrying a life a really minister figure, I would mother has a chance of happineer If I were asked to portray from man I don't know, but as long as take a woman with smooth black I don't care what Happens to my- hair knotted low, on her neck and

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Lord Merrivale said if the woman Benoist had been a woman leading a different life and had said she knew Sir Max as a customer, this everywhere on Society high dear, engineer was killed in the war and question would never have arisen. not only in Mayfair but in the

As to Lady Bonn's estate, said Sir Ellis, all she had of her own was £120 a year.

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Sir Walter Schwabe said she had A marriage settlement of £200,000

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casinos of Nice and Monte Carlo, she now Had a pension of only those historic baunts of boldness is Hardcastle has already re- and badness where the gigolo makeceived an offer by telegram from the poorest sort of apology for the

a man giving a London address. bucks of the past

She replied to the message, but refused to divulge the man's name.

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Feminine Flutters was insured for £17,000. There Admittedly some of the glamour. were other securities valued in Sep-east round the "dangerous tember last at £5,000. Lady Bonn by Victorian young ladies was false also had an interest in a dress They were brought up in fear of-j, making business in the West End of mice and men alike, and the appear London and certain other assets. ance of either species in their midst Sir Walter nakedi that the costs of was a signal for flutters. No won the triali should be paid by Lady der they were drawn towards tall:|| Bonn.

men, with bad reputations 'ne motha., Suffer The Consequences. to candle, and possibly the bad- Sir Walter submitted that the ess of the reputations was en court could condeman en unsuccessful hanced by the vast resources of petitioner in costs if she has feminine imagination

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via a ladder at dead of night, open-air Temperature, 2nd 1 78

route for the forbidden paradise

Lord Merrivale said it must be bome in mind that the major part of the wife's assets were held sub-

ject to anticipation and that would have to be considered.

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B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy: D- No one elopes nowadays. One is Drizzle: F-Fog: L-Lightning; married at a fashionable church K-Mat: 0-Overcast; P=Fassing Sir Walter: That is £19,000 out amid the applauding smiles of showers; Q-Squalls; E-Bain; T- of over £240,000. The remainder one's relations, to an immaculate arendur: under the settlement is in my client and very tame young man with no

past and a respectable future: as there are no children.

He added that the case as it stood An Inexplicable Bush To Glasgow. when the petition was filed was not I know of only one modern elopes. fit to come into Court. It showed, ment: It was achieved by a young The thought, a reckless disregard for man I know who suddenly, for no Sir Max's interest when the wife's apparent reason, rushed off to solicitors rushed into Court with the Glasgow with his prospective "cock and bull story of the bride, thereby depriving himself of Parisian paid watchers,

the many and expensive wedding When a man of the character of presepta which would normally Sir Max ran off the rails, as was have fallen to his lot. After this 'suggested, it should have been suf-exploit the runaway" couple te ficient to have put Lady Honn's turned very sheepishly to the fold, solicitors on inquiry instead of their where they were received, possibly Thar 28 m 1 34 65m 9 23 34 appearing in court with the evi- to their intense chagrin, without dence of these paid French watchers censure, because that young man plus the three-year-old story of a was certainly not wicked enough deported French woman. to have is marriage frowned upon

The President said the matter had by the parents of his bride. better be postponed for further No young mar A girl in afidavits and cross-examination of search of adventure is merely taker Mom 22 witnesses if necessary, until next out to a sedatë, lázchton and told Tuesday morning. I cannot fix of the ailments of her charmer's Ties, 28" m. it for Wednesday, for reasons which mother or sister: - Modern' young Frou- diów, Fondindek The Impe/men- faculture becoming notes

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