THIRTY-SEVEN HATS A YEAR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 12

THIRTY-SEVEN HATS A YEAR.

"Incompatibility of humour" was the principal ground for divorce proceedings in. a case which came up in a judge's private room in Paris (says a correspondent of the Daily Mail), The husband's chief grievance seemed to be that his wife was jnordinately exof £48C for twenty-five dresses. Tho lady l 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' bills to the extent of £480 fo rtwenty-five dresses. 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 the time of her marriage a dowry of £10,000. Tho husband replied that in sb£ years of married life 'his wife had spent almost the equivalent of her dowry in dress. Finally an arrangement was come to whereby the wifa promised not to exceed an expenditure of £300 a year -on her toilette, and the parties went away reconciled.