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Salisfacery

Ventilation

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Tiffing and Dinnera served from 10-30 a. m.

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Nice selection of French fancy boxes just arrived from France by the "Andre Lebon."

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

EASIER DIVORCE.

POSITION, A FEW YEARS BACK..

Could our grandfathers divorce their wives?

SATURDAY MARCH 13 1926.

QUEER DILEMMA.

TWO NAMES AND TWO

COATS OF ARMS.

Entitled, by two different wills, to the life interest in two settled setates, a olergyman has got to lose one of thom.

...MY

Certainly, but there were limits. They applied, however, to the law. They did not extend The reason is found in clauses to the costs. Visits to the Divorce in the wills, laying down what Courts were expensive. They

surname and coat-of-arms the life could be made only by those tenant shall assums. whose incomes escaped the ravages of super-tax because The decision was given in they lived when they did, They Chancery, on the application of could be repeated only by the the Rev. George Berena-Dowe privileged fow who could face swell.. oven that blemish on our modern civilisation with equanimity. Ob viously, the want of money was a drawback.

1916-Became entitled funder But this drawback was obvious- the will of William Dowoswell, ly due to the want of law, who died in 1887) to the Pull Modesty alone, apart from other Court estate, near Tewkesbury, considerations, would forbid most on condition that he assumed the people asking Parliament to pass aninamo and arms of the Dowde- a private Act to undo their matri-wells. monial indiscretions. In 1926 we [are able to còrrect our mistakes.

Here, in brief, is the history of the applicant:

1924.-Became entitled (under

But our grandfathers could only the will of Henry Berens, who ropont. They could do little else. died in 1883) to an estate in And they enjoyed the most ampla Bidoup, on condition that he bore leisure in which to do so. exclusively the name and armis, of Nothing, in fact, could disturb the the Berene family, pastoral quiet.

He had assumed the surname

Sometimos. exceptional mon of Berens-Dowdeswell; and taken did appear enthusiasts, blessed with perseverance, who did not the Dowdeswell arms by Patent. allow a slender bank balance to Mr. Justice Russoll, giving his determine their dostiny. One of decision, said that under the these was a Dublin tailor, whose Berens will the applicant must wife had left him for a gentleman assume the surname of Berons to engaged in some more romantic get the estate. The name Berens- calling. This incident may have Dowdeswell did not come within broken this tailor's heart. It cer- the clause of the will. tainly did not break his spirit. In- stead, for twelve long years he dedicated himself to his clientele, and at the end of that time ho had saved the £600 which enabled him to come to the House of

Lords and obtain a divorce by

Act of Parliament:

THE OPEN DOOR. To-day the doors of the Divorce Courts stand wide open. A cordial invitation is extended to

To take the estate he must as- sume exclusively the Berens arma by Royal License.

But if he did so, and thus be- catate, by ceasing to bear the came entitled to the Sidcup

arms of the Dowdeswells his life- estate in the property would coaso,

all to enter. Thousands do so. hundred pounds, and you do not What pioneer has wrought this seem to be worth as many pence. change! Whom should we thank But it is the boast of the law that for this hospitality? A witty but it is impartial and makes no satirical sentence passed by the difference between the rich and lato Mr. Justice Maule upon a the poor. The wealthiest man in man who came before him on the Kingdom would have to pay charge of bigamy is responsible. no less than that sum for the The following is a fairly truthful same luxury. So that you would account of what that brilliant have no reason to complain. "You Judge said on that occasion:- would of pourso, have to prove "Prisoner at the bar, you have your case over again, and at the been convicted before me of what end of a year or possibly two, the law regarde as a very grave you might obtain a decree which and serious offence, that of going would enable you logally to do through the marriage ceremony what you have thought proper to a second time while your wife do without.

"You have thus wilfully re- was still alivo. You plead in

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she was proved herself a curse to offered you, and it is my duty to your bousehold while she re-duty to pass upon you such sout- mained mistress of it, and that once as I think your offence de- she had latterly dosertod you; serves, and that sentence is that but I am not permitted to recog-you be imprisoned for one day; nise any such plea. You have and inasmuch as the as presont entered into a solemn engage-assize is three days old, the result ment to take her for better, for is that you will be immediately worse, and if you got infinitely discharged."

When our grandfathers mar- more of the latter, as you appear to have done, it is your duty riod they accomplished some- thing of real permanence. Their patiently to submit.

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"You say you took another grandchildren live under a hap person to be your wife because pier dispensation. It would be you were left with several young a pity if it became too easy a dis- children, who required the care pensation.

and protection of somoone

who had deserted them; but

the law makes no allowances

for bigamists with large families. Had you taken the other female to live with you as your mistress you would never have been inter- fered with by the law. But sour orime consists in having-to U30 your own words-proferred to made an honest woman of her.

"Another of your unreasonable excuses is, that your wife had committed adultory and so you thought you were relieved from. treating her with any further consideration; but you were mis- taken. The law, in its wisdom, points out a means by which you might rid yourself from further Association, with a woman who had dishonoured you; but you did not think proper to adopt it.

NOT THE FAULT. OF THE LAW."

"I will tell you what that prá-] cess is. You ought first to have brought an action against your: wife's seducer, if you could dis- cover him. That might oost you money, and you say you are a poor working man but that is not the fault of the law.) You would then be obliged to prove by evidence your wife's criminality in a court of justice, and thus obtain a verdict, with damages against the defendant, who was not unlikely to turn up to be a pauper. But so jealous is the law of the sanctity of tho marriage tie, that in accomplish- ing all this you would only have fulfilled tho lighter portion of your duty. You must thon have gone, with your verdict in your hand, and petitioned the House Lords for a divorce. It would cost you, perhaps, five or sixi

OLD BOTTLES.

HOW LONDON SENDS THEM HOME

or ginger beer, made by a hundred deal in marked bottles. A manu different firms from Aberdeen to facturer who used another's, Brighton, are all jostled together bottles would be liable to oriminal there in sacks and orates waiting prosecution, and we have an to be sorted out. One room has organization with depots all over 10,000 gross, of stoppers. They the country to sort them out. are: atomperate collection. London, Jan. 25.-It is almost Alcoholic bottles do not enter Railways are our best custom- impossible for a mineral water this home in great quantities, for ers Hundreds of bottles are bottle to be thoroughly lost. A brewers show loss solicitude for found under the seats of long- football supporter may throw his thoir bottles than the manu distance traius. Every month or empty bottle from his motor facturers of aerial waters. Even so we send to Euston or St. Pan- coach, a traveller leave it under the "Scotch" room has not a crae, and fetch the collections. the seat in a railway carriage, a single whisky bottle in it.

Dust heaps and Borough Council child may take milk in it to a

yards are searched by rag-bone picnio and throw it into a ditch, A council of twenty-six runs mon who save bottles that would but a thousand hands will guide this business, on behalf of the otherwise go to the refuse the erring "empty" back to the manufacturers, who pay a small destructor. These bottles come firm that owns it.

charge for every dozen returned to us through bottle dealers, who to them, and a similar payment is are not allowed to sell them, and A press representative yester-made to collectors. Ownership is so in time they reach the factories. day visited a large building which recognized by mouldings or sand- where they are cleaned, and used le the London home for waifs and blasting on the outside of the again. strays of the bottle family.

bottle. Thousands of soda

These markings are really radius of 100 miles round London All the stray bottles in a syphons and tons of thousands of trade marks," said the secretary, bottles that once held lemonade "and it is illegal for any one to come here.

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