DOMESTIC LAW
" HUSBAND SHOULD RETREAT." Mr Justice Kimkel, of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), courts, thus lays down "the "domestic law": A man has full rights in his own homo against everybody but his wife, and when the wife starts a quarrel it is the husband's business to retreat. Other epigrammatic judgments passed by the Bench on the same occasion—a successful plea by a wife for a maintenance order against'her husband—-were: If a husband ie afraid of his wife he should run away. When a husband puts a wne m his home he cannot complain about her treatment. He had a big field to draw from, and he took her in preference to all the rest. Counsel for the husband pleaded that this was "a hard rule." "It's the only safe one," rejoined the Judge, "and it ought to teaoil men to be very careful in their selection of wives."
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Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 4
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149DOMESTIC LAW Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 4
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