PRICE OF A HUSBAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 17

PRICE OF A HUSBAND.

I An action for damages for the alienation i of a husband's aiT-, L i,,,i is something quite 1 novel in prance, though Transatlantic precedent is lint wanting. Such a ease has just 1 ioiup up for judgment before the I'ariss . courts, in which n Madame Hebert claims ' LoVO from a Madam:' !'..-nuchamp. a wealthy divorcee, as damages for a hearth abandoned and a heart grown coot. Her case is llial Madame Ueuuchump, by ' the charms of purse, if not of person. * i attracted from 10-r side an :i!Tectionate hus- ' band of sixteen years' standing. Madame - Beuuchnmp retaliates riiat ll is not her f fault if M. Hebert has transferred his affection t,, her. but ihut of his wife, who, 1 with her jealousy and bad temper, made his • home life impossible. The Court has rc . - served its ,ind:riiiei:t. The hope is ex s pressed that Injured wives may adopt s Madame Hcbert's new system of retalia- ! >:•.■, in preference to the rousrh-and-ready I i method of -lie revolver, which has become I alarmingly fashionable of late.