THIRTY-SEVEN HATS A YEAR

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 81, 30 December 1907, Page 5

THIRTY-SEVEN HATS A YEAR

' "Incompatibility of humour'' was the principal - ground for divorce proceedings in a;case which came up recently before a judge ,in 'Paris...- ■ The husband's chief grievance seemed' to be that his wife was inordinately extravagant, in.the matter, of .dross. Tho lady had ordered thirty-seven new hats in a- single year, at an average cost, of £2 per hat'; and in' the same year she ran up dressmakers' hills to the extent of £480 for twenty-five drosses. - ■ : The wife.argued that, there was nothing very; extraordinary in this expenditure considering, that her husband was in a good way of business, and she herself had brought to him at thetime of'her marriage a dowry of £10,000. The. husband replied • that in the six-years of married life his wife had spent almost the equivalent, of her dowry in dress. - Finally an arrangement was 1 ' come to wherebjr the wife promised not to exceed an expenditure of £300 a year on her toilette, and the parties went, away reconciled.-