VALUE OF A HUSBAND.

Evening Post, Volume XLV, Issue 94, 22 April 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)

VALUE OF A HUSBAND.

Foreigners who have never visited England are impressed with the idea that one of the established institutions of the land is the sale of wives by their husbands for pots of beer, a special auction mart being regularly held for this purpose at " Schnieedfeelt." The case of Moore v. Moore and Harvey, heard in London last month, may enlargw their ideas on the subject. The respondent, who was the wife, offered (in reply to a jocular remark, " What price husbands to-day ?M)? M ) to sell hers for two-pence-halfpenny, and sho even ad mitted that when no bids were forthcoming at that Bgure she offered him to some unmarried ladies at the abnormally low figure of throe halfpence — which was realty tantamount to giving him away for nothing. Some husbands, it is true, might be dear at that sum, but in this cas Mrs. Moore proved horself to be «, fallacious appraiser of male value for while the jury have left her out in the cold, they have awarded her husband not only a decree nisi, but the sum of £250 from the geutleman who supplanted him in her affections. In other words, Mr. Moore is at this moment forty thousand times more valuable than his wife's last estimate made him out to be, without counting any other item in his estate. Plainly, Mrs. Moore will never make her fortune as an auctioneeress. Our friends the foreigners will, however, rejoice to hear of the opening among us of a husband mart, where wives offer " tho article " at rubbish prices.