AUTOMATIC DIVORCE.

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 16

AUTOMATIC DIVORCE.

In Hungary it is decreed under the revolution that husbands and wives who have lived apart will be permitted to enter into now marriages, and men and women who have lived together for a year will bo regarded as lawfully married: —

Most curious tho circumstance, But when tho revolutionist Upsets a throne and gets his chance, 'Tis found ho will at onco insist Upon revision of the laws Controlling- simple married men. Ho gets to work without a pause, And smashes all the rules, and then Decrees all folks unmarried when, With faith disturbed by transient woe, They casually wish it so!

In Hungary, it seems to me, 'Nea.th this too democratic bunch, A man comes home unwed if ho Is twenty minutes late for lunch, And if he takes a stroll at ove, And strays too far a mfle or so, Ho may bo told, howe'er he grieve, That he can. pack his bag- and go. His angry wife will let him know She has construed his small excursion Into an act of base desertion.

And should a good Hungarian spouse At some small function be detained, ■ Or miss a train, the law allows The husband's liberty's regained* Or if dad, coming home to tea. Finds cold tho hearth, and sees that mum Is gossiping at Jones's, he Can cut away, and wed with some Good dame who's more beneath his thumb, For ten yards, in thi3 norel nation, Is a judicial separation!

The little wife in Budapest, Who goes out shopping on a day, And leaves Bill waiting, must request • Immediate serving. 'She w2I say: "Two yards of calico, and please Do hurry up, or, on my life, When I go out I'll find that he's Gone hunting for another -wife." But think of that man's moral strife Whom timo's effluxion weds to eight Stout servant girls he's sacked too late. —The Leader,' Melbourne.