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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, whon Ernest Henry Houghton, alving an address at Duke's Avenue, Church End, Finchley, Was summoned by his wife for persistent cruelty

Mr. Ricketts, for the wife, gold that before her marriage she wea a. schoolmistress. The husband; was a schoolmaster, and both were B.A.B...

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

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 wifo mado no complaint to her parents, but when suffering from a nerv ous breakdown the husband told; them, and the mother said that if he did really beat her daughter she would have to take hòr away. He replied that she would not leave him.

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

FRIDAY

CHIC LINEN SUIT

Worn with Blouse of Spotted Muslin

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

"For day wear there is some thing specially smare in the form of a suit of white crushable Unen, with blouse of white and black spotted muslin."

father thought he was suffering For Your Note-Book. from delusions, and got him to

AUGUST.

193

SOME COSTLY BLUNDERS

CIVIL SERVICE DEAL LOSS

How A Ministry of Labour "change of mind" cost the country over £23,000 fa revealed in the civil and revenue yotes expen- diture report issued by the Public Accounts Committee.

Aalto had been purchased in Bristol in 1925 for a new employ- ment exchange, but was abandoned four years later owing to violent local opposition, chiefly on tho ground that it wasa, main thoroughfare.

A proposal to erect an Inland Revenue building on the same sito ‘also. aroused local opposition on the ground that it was right off the beaten track,

The total expenditure of the Office of Works on accrugë renta and other autlays amounted to 29.188 by September 1983; whon an offer to buy the site for £5,750 was received and accepted. The not loss on the transaction had therefore exceeded £23,000

The Committee had ascertained. continues the report, that, while it wae not yet poksible to stato the Anal capital cost of the new Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, the total expenditure was expected to reach nearly £1,100,000, as com. pared with estimates of from £950,000 to $970,000.

That large outlay had provided

but living accommodation only

Greenwich had a complement be- for.860, whereas the school at tween 900 and 1,000.

promise that if he had smackedOORS of cupboards and built-the main buildings for 1,000 boys,

in fitments in new houses are his wife in the past he would ebase doing so in the future. The often found to stick at first. This

difficulty can be overcome by rub bing the edges and the frame with a prepared wax polish,

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They change so fast, there should be

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The wife felt that if she resisted the punishment would have been heavier than it was...

The capital cost per boy, there- fore, represented about £1,250 while the average annual cost por boy had risen from-270 to £97 per annum, and the Committee "can- not but think that these figures

PUB butter or some oil on to THREATENED TO THRASH HER. burns and scalds immediately Coming to the time the wife left they happen. More often than her husband, Mr. Ricketts sald not you can prevent a nasty burn represent a somewhat lavish scale that carly in the week he threa-by being prompt with the butter. of expenditure."

toned her that if she made three domestic mistakes that week ho

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would thrash her at the week-end. If you wring out lace and muslin frocks in milk-iristend of starch She made a mistake, and remem- it will stiffen them sufficiently. bering his threat to boat her at the week-end she left him and

one's

want to her parents, t NILK. stockings which have be

como stained from 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 since to collect lemon dipped in salt. them. Each one of the children bore signs t

ns of recent ghigno husband seemed to be a man who thought he had a right to inflict violenco on anyone, be it a child or his wife,

NOTHING SAFE

SEASIDE SUN-BATHING

PROTEST..

“Distasteful,” Says Westgate

Westgate-on-Sea is shocked by the conduct of hathers and sun- bathors, and a beach inspector has been warned to keep a watchful eye for the sufficiently elad

Many letters and verbal protesta

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

£600 a year.

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

asked if she resisted her husband's behaviour. She replied that she thought that if sho gave in sho "Everything that is not bolted would appease him. Fof the little down" has been atolen 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 who always nice to me by Mr. L. G. Schlehner, the superman, Mr. C. E. Whitlock, at the afterwards," she added. "He gave Intendent.

Council meeting.

"On the promenade et St. me a cup of tea,”

Mr. Schlehner blames souvenir Mildred's Bay, he continued, “a Mrs. Houghton, replying to Mr. Ricketts, said that her husband re-hunters, vandals, and mischievous man was seen completely nude and ceived a salary of from £400 totions, says Reuter. Some of them gate must act an

school children for these depreda- dressed himself leisurely, West- example to 'other The Bench, granting a separa-he says, even bring screwdrivers resorts and prevent a repetition tlan, ordered Houghton to pay his and wrenches to carry out their of such distasteful conduct." wife £2 a week and 10s, a week depredations.

Mr. Longrigg said that one Sun- in respect of each of the five chil

Among the articles stolen were day he saw ten young people of dren, the wife to have the custody a 400 years old Chinese oboe, a both sexes, lying sun-bathing on piece of - in with costumes drop ordered to pay two guineas costs. scribed with the Lord's Prayer, the ped below the waist.

microscope through which the A realdunt on the sea-front, he, printing was read, wireless valves, came in cars and, after undressing added, complained of visitors who sparking plugs, telegraph keys, lay about the ground in exaggerat- aeroplane parts, and a five-shilling

ed stages of undress, watch..

MRS. MAX BAER

WANTS TO REVERT TO MAIDEN NAME,

WILL BAN ON DEALING.

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17 Alfred, twice summoned, pro- daces nearly all the green Todder. 20 Lord of the mosque."

One enterprising visitor tied a length of heavy rope around a huge aeroplane engine on the Dorothy Dunbar Baer, former second floor and threw the other wife of Blax Baer, the world heavy end of the rope out of the window made by Mr. George Turner, a re-with the packing of a kit-bag- An unusual bequest in a will was 22 A pleasing expression connected weight boxing champion, wants to with the idea of pulling the tired draper, of Highstreet, Win-25 This animal's cont always looks

Let In become "Miss Wolls" again, says engine through,

alow (Bucks), who left £8,063. He too short for it Reuter from Los Angeles. She

stated

25 Ingenuousness. bas 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 Bergh, of daughter shall at any time use, the Lady Grouse. that the pubHelty attached to the Lyndhurst-road, Hampstead, Income they may recelye under my 28 Ra, man, had thino (anag). Hame Baer is distasteful to hon plonsor of the margarine industry will or any part thereof either Mrs. Baor was granted a "mail in this country, who died, aged 85, directly or indirectly in the bual-

Katika @Dawa); order divorce from Baer to Octo-loft £259,147 "so far da at present ness of buying, selling, breeding or ber. The boxer signed a document can be ascertained," with not per upkeep of any horses, ponies or enabling the decree to be granted sonalty £209,768, on which £69,890 greyhounds, they shall immediately by mutual consent on grounds of has been paid on account of estate lose and forfeit all interest there- incompatibility.

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