The Inscrutable She

NZ Truth, Issue 569, 13 May 1916, Page 10

The Inscrutable She

A casual visit to tho Magistrate's Court any Monday morning will give any thinking man food for serious reflection for months on end. There he will And such unmistakable evidence of the good that's m the worst of us and the bad that's m tho best of us, as will make him more humble and considerably more charitable for the rest of his life. It Is m such places that the inexplicable m woman manifests itself. There she appears suing a neighbor or a whilom friend, as relentlessly as a panther seeking its prey. The matter In dispute may bo exceedingly trivial, but, for the time being, shp allows it to obsess hor. and sho does' not let up until- sho has her heel In the neck of her enemy,, or she herself is knocked out. That 1b tho "bad" that is In woman. I Then, there Is tho other side. Go Into such a court almost any day when some Sidelights on City Life are being flashed on the Domestic .Disturbance screen. There you will see enough to convince you that a woman will never fall to find an excuse for almost any torture her "man" may inflict upon her. provided she loves him, and his fallings do not run In. the direction of paying attention to other women. Time and again one nnds & woman, who has had her husband Arrested for assaulting her. ploadlnffnll sho knows how for the magistrate to let him off. "Truth" reps, witness many such sights. Home though extremely pathetic not altogether unmixed with humor Writer remembers ono such case where

a good Roman's lovis pJeadfed wllh the magistrate to save a bad man; She assured tho court that her husband never assaulted her unless he had been drinking. . , : . "At other times 1h he a considerate husband?" asked the magistrate), seeking to assure himself that the case was one In which leniency might well bo shown. "He always Is, your worship," replied the woman, with tears In her voice. "Even when Jack has been boostn* a lot, he never beats me where the marks will show!"