SLIM WAISTLINE OR COMFORT?

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 21

SLIM WAISTLINE OR COMFORT?

Is a wife's insistence on performing physical culture exorcises in her room every morning in the costume of Eve a ground for divorce?_ Tho Divorce Court of Paris has to decide this issue owing to a suit just brought by the husband (says the correspondent of the ‘ Daily Mail ’). The husband complains that, whereas his wife used to bring him a cup of coffee and the morning newspaper to read in bed, now, after fifteen years of happy married life, she lias suddenly acquired a mania for physical culture and slimming. _ She goes, he says, to courses of open-air beautifying at a nude colony on an island in the Seine, near Paris, The wife retorts that she has reached an age in life when she has begun to put on weight, and she is convinced that slimming and sunshine treatment are the secret of perpetual youth. “ 1 do not want to get stout and lose my waistline,” she says. “That is why I insist on doing physical culture drill every morning. You would keep fitter yourself if you did the same.”