LEVANTING HUSBANDS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 146, 5 June 1913, Page 2

LEVANTING HUSBANDS.

IM 'R easing Tn numbers. SOME OF THE CAUSES. Cl:i isti null h, Jiilk 3. Fulli v. iny on some eumments in l lie Wellington Supreme Court «»n the spevily ilcsi rl i< hi of wives ny their hti-bands. a “Press” reporter has been sei king tile opinions of some wlm iiuij- he icgariled as having a good knowledge on the subject . Mr. 11. W. Bi -l.'op. S.M., said that c< rlainly desertions are i'irrensing in numbers, ami there is a weaken ing in appreciation of tlie responsibilities of marriage. A gentlfman who had watched the Courts ns a journalist and as a solicitor' for between twenty and thirty years, said that eases of desertion at the church door Imd come , t<: i.is km.wledgo. They were affairs in which a. despicable person bad inivi igled another into tlie marriage [slate with no intent to accept its <>l>- ! ligations. Usually, however, deser [lion (cr its equivalent) came after a ' number of y. .:rs, when the incrc.ns- > ing num I .)', r of children, rouibiri d j with the povcity of tbc home ami ; the incc-mpat-ibility of the part its, I made life qnboarable. There wm; ■ less of the old willingness to accept. things as they were. system <-f : cduca<■ io j• shordd hit.v«..■ 111 Ipi <i Io , make tin- pt I'i’lc moral, hut most <-ui--1 i.vrin tlend i it. bad not. Tiic sexes no

Uimi-T r. spectoti < rich ether as they ".I'tadd. and ic they rscl to. and hrc'wii nc: war; s Lilleu ed im the - 1 ;. ckofiii i. n! a' an d 11 1 1' ! r l l : ; ta-1n i n a. A poI i c e ail ic< ■ r i< ( exiwt.. c n c e sa i d :,b-D. G/S. G t.< SPUddy !'i 4< Ml ■•!■!’ lit it M'h : m quuiH . ’d oi i d I o £M e j'U ~<,i f t t" iii' V • ■ j« 1 i V gl> L ; ■VI I 'it • ;:: ; e \\' ■■ s ;- r r :oi,» -< 1 ’’i: ‘ >kr»nf;w, :-i.-s ■-1. .a lone n! < f iiiirrs. ciisstii.'emi'lit of affiiirM. lack < t knuv.ledge, orinmst ofi• e n) '' Ii i e mar ring e of cc;iv c t: - ier.ee. ” .Always there was sometiling peen liar ill.) mil it, either on the part of t!:e man or the woman. Of te n the par cn t s ha < I f< >re e d 111 e girl int o i Ik' marriage. Mis Ca rdll.lc ■ (seorcf;t ry of the (.’iw.l and Bb’nke; Fuml). whose dirties iiririg her kilo rlrw contact with iii.’iny such eases, siiys tiint. llicy fellow tlsmilly I'l’irr some years, ivh.n childr; n come, ami tlie pinch of things is mi./c keenly felt. Ami in visit ing I lies, homes 1 have told ihe nienfi Ik. time ami ng;.in. that it is m. wonder that their husbands drink <r <.(bitwise mishehim* if tint are t<.<> sl'nenly L> run the lii.asehcld propi Ay. I ha ve seen bed- umnade and the washing up iso dene nt 5.30 in tlie evening. I Tee sirriian ef the North Can[terhiny Hospital and ('hnritable i Aid to ard si id t hat the m.'il ler . bid: the l.i ,’im j h;i ( l mged up. n tln* itiiAiniinnil was that it. and not the rille ht rsc'f. who had seldom any w :in:m. wla. siu.uld >/<’ responsible ; w the bringing back of desert i _•« Lit ..Aust riii'i. I.Lv.inlly the cost was from £io in £25. which was much bey. ml the w< man's means. In his c xp. r:rnec Im In <1 come .•'emss many eases in which reeon-.-i I iat ion had fi Ibiwe.l su.'/i returns. [Tin re were ,ni prow, nt between [ t w< uly "ml twenty-five easi's of d<j reeled families wlm v. me recctviiig Ir Ip fn in 1 lie board.