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EVERY SATURDAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1948.

WOMANSENSE

DESERTED

WIVES

EW

among

the general

public realise the hard lot of the deserted wife.

It is true that the low gives her certain rights. Thus a magistrates' domestic court can award her weekly muns, to be paid by the husband, up to £2 and on additional ten shil- ling for each child.

Of

Such an order can be made in cases of desertion, persistent cruelty, wilful refund to minintain the home tul adultery. lf course, these parts are too the recent report of the Den- #inst

ing Committee has recommended a substantial increase. Such an in- crense has long been overdue; the 22 WOR fixest in 1805 and the 10s.

1920. The

}:

then

cost of living has soared siner and the fact that despite re- pented appeals from the Magistrates' Association, these arms have not been raised is no eredit in successive Home Secretaries.

Fresh Trouble Bu

The making of voluntary deed of separation by the parties without resorbing to a ccorf. For there is no certainty, and there can be noue, that the money

will be regularly patri

by CLAUD MULLINS

former Metropolitan magistrate

GA SEAMAN KA BA (GattuĽ STIGTENETA KIOSSASCHUNG

end of the almost inevitable hard- chips to the children.

Sometimes wife and husband inve asked for time to think things over. When this happens the probation officers (or court friends, as I pre- fer to call them for matrimonial wark)ften with great

do all they can to help

the success.

But many wives or husbands per- sisted ant possibly passed into the sorry ranks of those who find bitter! trouble when orders of the court are not enrried out. Some wives: seem to think that an arder of their · husbands is like one on the Bank of England.

The bedrock fact, is that no wage- carter who has children by hila.

I suggested to the Committee that marringe is in n position to maintain In these cases

magistrates' courts two liomes; and nowadays there is should be allowed to enforce pay scarcely a man in the kingdom who ment, but the Committee proposed in able to indulge in this folly and the county court, whirre delays oc- at the same time do justice to all -eur nudi fees have to be pald. This is those who have a right to be main-

very regrettable.

tained by him.

Lone Husbands

E unhappy, fot of separated husbands must not be limored. Some of them fully deserve all that comes to them. So do some of the wives.

told

men,

Our wage system, like so much in this world, is based on monogamy. the union for life of a husband and

a wife.

A

Still Hope

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PARTY PIECE

AST-MINUTE

In-

ny

vitations to parties put a strain on the wardrobe.

Quick and success-

ful last-minute eut- fit (1) is a print sum- mer (rock worn over

any evening

dyeing--and gathered, front or back, in a bustle offret over the hips,

But many of these husbands are

written LL that I have

here qulte decent

Whatever their points to the pressing need that sherits, they encnot enjoy being social help should be available for DUT the making of an order by

bought to court from time to time all husbonds and wives whose mar- in order that their means nisy be riges threaten to break up, whether court is only too frequently the beginning of fresh trouble. So la vesligated.

the grin prospect is divorce in the i have often seen a worn-out look High Court or separation in a magis- un their faces, in expression that teate's court.

that

Life Is for hard for them. The report of the Denning Con- But I have far more often seen this matter contains these words:

"The k in the faces of wives.

prospects of reconciliation are much chris of these husbands mure favourable the early there who seem to prefer any kind later stages. At

everity ta treessary, expretafly with or carital disharmony than in the a black evening skirt

that stage both ur (And there are more of these inry Parties are likely to be willing to dreys old enough for

co-operate In an effort to save the marriage."

This is perfectly trite.

But even Just before the breaking point there is still hope and hishands and wives any idea for the free from WHEN denting with these cases of would be wise to seek help from

thom. I doubt if ny cases

arrears, I have often wondered a probation officer or from a mar- magistrates have to deal with are Whether when these marriages were riage guidance organisation. more pathetic

ere breaking, the parties ever thought of Life after separation or

the awful troubles that can follow can be so sordid and diflcult. after an order of a court.

should never he faced I have frequently the

warned the has been obtained and proved un- parties of the hardships of life apart, able to bring about a healing.

This aspect of matckmontal trouble ims received too little attention. I luve often seen wives leave a do- mestic court with a look of triumph on their faces; they have got their orders, But I have. equally often wondered whether they really have

these orders will bring to

than

that

cases where

wives come to court seeking the payment of arrears on those orders.

Nu t

action can be taken by wife

until the arrears have amount

be

ed to two weeks' money. Then there' has to be delay while the summons is being served upon the husband.

All this time the wife may without money from the husband. This fact alone causes avute distress in many cases, have seen wonen

in tears when they learn that there is still no money for them.

The summons may not have been served; perhaps the husband has moved, or even changed his name. Or he may be genuinely unable in 13.

Or he may be living with another woman and love children by her. Or he may hist be deflant ↑ in bis refusal to pay.

Whatever the reason, the wife's

lot is then a hard one.

If, when the busbaur is in court,

It is found that he is guilty of well-

fully refusing to pay or that

bis

he

failure to pay was “culpable," mny be sent to prison, flut though that may sometimes give temporary satisfaction to the wife, it produces no money for her.

Account Bare

Opour

\FTEN a wife in this situation la on Law relief and is being pressed to get some nuney from her husband. In such vases · one can understand if she feels that she is between the devil and the deep blue sen.

Week by week many wives whose orders are not being paid spend their pennies on bus or tram rides to the court, only to be told by the ever-courteous clerks in whal called the Periodical Payments De- partment that her account is bore.

is

Many wives who have livorced their husbands are in an even worse; plight. For no court other than the High

of life to hard and honest work.

thun the politicians care to about).

Hardships

think

...I WISH MEN WOULDN'T be tou clever about not being overcharged sa

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This is one of the evils that Denning Committee propose to right. Unfortunately the solution that they have proposed must prove abortive.

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THAT is this crisis? Fud? In England, through the aban- children will become little pagans Power? Finance donment of God and religion, or good Christians, and if good Weather? No. These morality has declined. I need only Christians, then good citizens fil- are serious and annoying, but ber of divorces, murders, num- ed with ideals of service for

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THE good THE

mother at home per- We are shocked by the wave

forms more valuable and more of important service than the states- juvenile Why do I say this? There is shocked by murders committed by Her work is unspectacular so

We delinquency.

man or the miner or the bricklayer. little U no religion among those in their teens. If such crimes all too often it passes without notice. that thousands of the people of this continue and fucrease, England But to large extent the mothers of country. By this I do not then is doomed. If England falls, England have it in their power 10 mean that there is no religious Europe falls with her.

build up Christian family life. to Government have just is published a

close the divorce court and stem White Paper on the juvenile delinquency. sense. The heart of man

shortage. Yet white sance. Season with salt, many years our clever people are

dessertspoon

The Poles, who for months chopped have been saying that it does been wasting their time in parsley, and add it to a plain not matter what we believe: it in this cou amelette mixture as it sets in the does not matter whether we

country I notice particularly the call to pain. Fold over or roll the mix-

worship God: religious beliefs, women to ture, and serve as pinin orelette.

re-enter Industry. I they say.

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Is Impossible to have a moral code. Motherhood is not only

During Lent we think of the suf- natural vocation, it spcon chopped parsley. Prepare a plain omelette, and place the

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SAVORY OMELETTE

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we

want to restore Christian

world life to our country we must begin which had rejected God for Mum with the home. Men may butle mon. During Lent we should devote houses, but women build the homes. ourselves to revising our relations The women, the mothers in the with God. It is a time to bring God home, hold the key to England's Add 1 teaspoon finely powdered back into every detail of our daily greatness. In

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egfts, or sprinkle the herbs over the

home of England, the familly life of England.

surface of the beaten egg mixture Now, if we abandon God and re- crisis and in all future crises is the

while I in cooking.

A mother's contribution in this

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