MOTOR AND WIFE
"My husband puts his car before me," complained Mrs, Violet Lilian Jacquest, of Ducie Street, Clapham, at the South-Western Matrimonial Court recently. Mrs. Jacquest, who summoned her husband for desertion, was granted an order for 10s a week. She declared that the first year of her married life was happy. Then her husband bought a car, and the car and his friends took up all his time. "He goes out at night, even at midnight, in his car, and tells me he is working," she .said. "I never believe him. The car started all this trouble." The husband, Charles Frederick Jacquest, said:
"I will not give up my car for anybody, not even my wife. It is my hobby, and I am going to keep it. If my wife wants to come out with me on a Sunday afternoon there will always be room for her with my friends. But if she snubs my friends I shall snub her." Mr. Jacquest admitted than when he had an accident in his car recently two women were with him. "They were friends of mine," he A3 id
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 18
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188MOTOR AND WIFE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 13, 15 July 1937, Page 18
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