WIFE-BEATERS ANONYMOUS
[By
WHIM WHAM]
Faced with Hephzibah Menuhin’s controversial claim that wife-beating was a ..lajor Australian sport, Auckland experts nodded their heads and said, “and it goes on here.” . . . Far less common, but also reported, are hus-band-beatings by wives. Court files quote these cases, too . . .—News item. All right, it may Be as you say—’ That Wives get beaten In this Way; That, sad but true, •Not a Few Husbands come in for Beatings too. A national Sport (So says Report): No Ref., no Rules Of any Sort: A dangerous Game, A Sin, a Shame, A Blot on our fair Country’s Name! Such wicked Strife Of Man and Wife Does not commend our Way of Lafe— Does not commend Our long Week-end If THAT is how we Choose to spend It. 13 it THUS We) Jokers jusTify what Beeby Teaches Us? Is THIS the Pleasure By which to measure The deadly Boredom Of our Leisure? Do we, really, Buy it so dearly, Or is it merely That Expert Eyes don’t See quite clearly?
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27664, 21 May 1955, Page 6
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