OLD MAN'S CUTE DARLING

NZ Truth, Issue 1035, 26 September 1925, Page 19

OLD MAN'S CUTE DARLING

"Pear 'father.-. -.F ix the Place m My Name"

(Prom "Truth's" .Hamilton Rep.)

He was much older than the widow when he married her. She left him later and then commenced lengthy correspondence , between them, she refusing to return until "the place was fixed m her name."

It was her second hazard when he married her, for. already she had had one husband who had departed and i left her with widow's weeds. On this occasion she married £i man considerably • her senior, and she did not fail to let him know of \the disparity m their ages. They V\ve're- : hitched up at the Hamil- ! ton Registry Office m November, 1919, and one day recently his. wife deserted him. hence the proceedings which Alfred Toone Shaw brought m the Hamilton Supreme Court for an order for restitution of conjugal rights. After his spouse left him to ,get his own meals and to make his own bed, he" appealed to her to return, with an adde<V threat that il' she didn't he would make her, by the power of the law, and he wrote her a letter. , To this his spouse replied: "Dear old man, — I am glad to hear you are well and that your ducks are laying so well, which must be helping you along- now' that you haven't a wife to ■■'keep.- You keep asking me when I am coming back. "Well, what a lark if I had come back last week^ while you had that 26-year-old woman m the house. She did not stay long. '.'isfow, the best thing you can do is what '"[".told', you; m. my last letter. I don't know where -you will §fet all your money' from* to get a divorce, bur 1 ■■ ■■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ f'

suppose you know your own business best. "I suppose it will be coming off before long. I wish you success. "I remain, Annie Shaw. "(I am. that for a week -or. two.)" Not crushed with this reply, the old man wrote again a month later: "Dear Annie,- — This is the last time I ask you to come back. As you knovy. Mrs. is the cause of the whoie trouble. I will give you till two o'clock on Thursday. This will ' bring up a lot of scandal, not only toyou but to everybody. For God's sake, dour, delay, and don't let this happen. —Your husband, Alfred Toone Shaw." In reply she wrote: "In answer to your letter, I might say that the conditions of my last letter still hold good. . "When you get your solicitors to fix the place m my name, so that there can be no more turning me out into the street at midnight, I am willing to come back and look after you as long as I live. v "I cannot leave here until you do, as I shall not be allowed here again, so you see I must have a safeguard against being homeless. If you do as I say 1 ", and give me £2 10s a "rtfeek, I will pay all there is to pay." The property i-jtill remains m the old man's name, and he. :is now armed with an order requiring his wife to return to him within 21 uaya.