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THE HONGKONG

CANED HIS WIFE

Schoolmaster Who Thought He Had Right

SEPARATION ORDER

An amazing story of a school- master who made his wife strip and then caned or smacked her was told at Highgate, London, when Ernest Henry Houghton, giving an address at Duko's Avenue, Church End, Finchley, was summoned by his wife for persistent cruelty,

Mr. Rickotta, for the wifo, sald that before her marriage she was a schoolmistress. The husband was a schoolmaster, and both were B.A...

Three or four years ago the husband got it into his head that If his wife displeased him ho should correct her.

TELEGRAPH

His method of correction was to cause her to strip and bend over a chair, when he smacked her with his hand or with a cane. Though the conduct was repeated the wife made no complaint to her parents, but when suffering from a nery- ous breakdown the husband told them, and the mother auid that if he did really beat her daughter! she would have to take her away.i He' replied that she would not leave him

In view of his nervous state, mal Mr. Ricketts, the mother and:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934.

CHIC LINEN SUIT

Worn with Blouse of

Spotted Muslin

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

"For day scar there is some- thing specially smart in the form of a suit of white un- crushablo linen, with blower of white

black and

spotiad

niuslin."

SOME COSTLY BLUNDERS

CIVIL SERVICE DEAL LOSS

How a Ministry of Labour "change of mind" coat the country over £23,000 is revealed in the civil and revenue votes expon- diture report lasued by the Public Accounts Committee.

A site had been purchased in Bristol in 1925 for a new employ- ment exchange, but was abandoned four years later owing to violent locat

opposition, chiefly thorough at it was ground

on the A main

A proposal to erect an Inland Revenue building on the same alte. also aroused local opposition on the ground that it was right off the beaton track.

"The total expenditure of the Office of Works on accrued rents. and other outlays amounted to £29,438 by September 1938, when an offer to buy the alte for £5,750 was received and accepted. The not loss on the transaction had therefore execeled £23,000.

The Committee had ascertained, continues the report, that, while It was not yet possible to state the final capital cost of the new Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, the total expenditure was expected to reach nearly £1,100,000, na comi pared with estimates of from | £950,000 to £970,000.

That large outlay had provided Tather thought he was suffering For Your Note-Book from delusions, and got him to

but living accommodation only promise that if he had smacked DOORS of cupboards and built-the main buildings for 1,000 boys,

in itments in, new houses are his wife in the past he would often found to stick at first: Thin for 860, wherons the school at cense doing so in the future. The difficulty can be overcome by rub. Greenwich had a complement be-i bing the edges and the frame with a prepared wax polish..

LTD.smacking, however, continued,

The wife falt that if she resisted the punishment would have been heavier than (t was.

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They change so fast, there should be a new picture at least, once a year, for photographs of the children nover grow up.

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UB butter or some oll on to THREATENED TO THRASH HER. burns and scalds immediately Coming to the time the wife loft they happen.. More often than her husband, Mr. Ricketta sald not you can prevent a nasty burn that early in the week he threa-by being prompt with the butter. toned her, that if she made three domestic mistakes that week her would thrash her at the week-end. She made a mistake, and remem:it bering his threat to boat her at. the week-end she loft him and went to her parents.

you wring out lace and mualin frocks in milk instead of starch will atiffen them suficiently.

SILK stockings which have be

come stained from one's

When she left her husband she was unable to take the five chil- shoes can be successfully cleaned dren of the marriage with her, but by rubbing the stains with a cut she had managed sinea to collect lemon dipped in salt. them. Each one of the children bore signs of recent cauing.........

Mr. Ricketts added that the husband seemed to be a man whe thought he had a right to inflict violence on anyone, be it a child or his wife.

NOTHING SAFE

tween 900 and 1,000,

The

capital cost per boy, there fore, represented about £1,250

while the average annual cost per boy had risen from £70 to £97 per annum, and the Committee "can- not but think that these figures represent a somewhat lavish scale of expenditure."

SEASIDE SUN-BATHING. PROTEST

**Distasteful,” Says Westgate

Westgate-on-Sea is shocked by the conduct of bathers and sun- bathers, and a-beach Inspector has been warned to keep a watchful eye for the insufficiently clad.

Many letters and verbal protests

The wife, giving evidence, was SOUVENIR HUNTERS STRIP have been made to the Parish

asked if she resisted her husband's

MUSEUM "Everything that is not bolted

Council.

"Objection has been taken to bathers who slip down the top portions of costumes and sprawl about the promenades, greens and

behaviour. She replied that she thought that if she gave in she would appease him. For the Httle down" has been stolen from the punishment she received she did Franklin Institute Museum, ac not wish to wreck their marriage. cording to an announcement made sands sun-bathing," said the chair- "He was always nice to me by Mr. L. G. Schlehner, tha super-man, Mr. G. E. Whitlock, at the

Council meeting, afterwards," she added. "He gave intendent...

On the promenade-at--St. me a cup of tea."

Mr. Schlehner blames souvenir Mildred's Bay," he continued, "a Mrs. Houghton, replying to Mr.hunters, vandals, and mischievous man was seen completely nude and Rickette, said that her husband re-school children for these depreda-dressed himself leisurely. West- ceived a salary of from 2400 to tions, says Router. Some of them, gate must set an example to other £600 a year.

he says, even bring screwdrivers resorts and prevent a repetition The Bench, granting 4 separa- and wrenches. to carry out their of such distasteful conduct." tion, ordered Houghton to pay his

Mr. Longrigg said that one Sun- depredations, wife £2 a week and 10s, a week! In respect of each of the five chil- Among the articles stolen were day he saw ten young people of hoth sexes lying sunbathing on dren, the wife to have the custody a 400 years old Chinese oboe, the sea-front with costumes drop- of the children. He was also tiny, plece of printing type In- ordered to pay two guineas costs scribed with the Lord's Prayer, the ped below the waist.

MRS. MAX BAER

WANTS TO REVERT TO MAIDEN NAME.

which the

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11 What the plough Or sail, or Iand or life, it freedom fail?” (Emerson, "Boston").

Descendant of an ancient house

A resident on the sea-front, hu 12 microscope through printing was read, wireless valves, added, complained of visitors she aparking plugs, telegraph keya, came in cars and, after undressing 13 aeroplane parts, and a five-shilling lay about the ground in exaggerat-16

ad stages of undress.

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An unusual bequest in a will was made by Mr. George Tarner, a reas at th tired draper, of Highstreet, Win- 26 This animal's coat always looks slow (Bucks), who left £8,063. He too short for it. stated

26 Ingenuousness.

One enterprising visitor tied 'n length of heavy rope around a the huge aeroplane engine on Dorothy Dunbar Baer, former second floor and threw the other wife of Max Baer, the world honvy end of the rope out of the window weight boxing champion, wants to with the idea of pulling the become "Miss Wells" again, says engine through, Router from Los Angeles. She has petitioned to be allowed to

"If either my daughter or grand-27 Not Lady Disdain, say, rather, revert to her maiden name, saying Mr. Jacob Van den Borgh, of daughter shall at any time use the Lady Crouse. that the publicity attached to the Lyndhurst-road, Hampstead, aincoine they may receive under my 28 Re, man, had thino (anag.). namo Baer is distasteful to her. pioneer of the margarine industry will ór any part thereof either Mrs. Baer was granted a "mail in this country, who died, aged 85, directly or indirectly in the busi- order" divorce from Baer to Octo- left £250,147 "so far as a presentness of buying, selling, breeding or ber The boxer signed a document can be ascertained," with net per- upkeep of any horses, ponies or enabling the decree to be granted sonalty £209,758, on which £69,396 greyhounds, they shall immediately by mutual consent on grounds of has been paid on account of estate lose and forfelt all interest there Incompatibility.

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