LATE CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 46, 23 February 1923, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

TO PLEASE WHOM? V WOMAN'S COSTLY DRESS. JUDGE EVINCES CURIOSITY, j ißy Cable.—rrees Association.—Copyright.) (Received 3 p.m.) LONDON, February 22. Justice McCardie, who is a bachelor, is hearing a case arising from Captain Nash's wife's alleged desire to be London's best dressed woman. The firm of Callot, of Paris and London, is suing Capt. Nash for £657 for dresses supplies to Mrs. Nasli within a period of six months. During the haaring Judge McCardie asked defendant's counsel whether he thought a woman dressed to please men or to please \vonv;n. Counsel replied: li l think to annoy other women. ,, Judge McCardie: What proportion of a husband's income ought to be devoted to decorating hie wife? Counsel: It depends on their station in life. For people like the Nashs, with a flat and a house in the West End, £400 a year ought to be enough. Counsel: This appears at present to be the husband's total income as an officer of the Army.

The Judge: What is he to do? Counsel: File a petition and retire from the scene.

The Judge: He can retire from matrimony, but not from his responsibilities as a husband. The law holds him to them.

Mr. Justice McCardied said in view of the social importance of the question involved, he reserved judgment. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)