SLIPPER-Y

NZ Truth, Issue 1198, 15 November 1928, Page 7

SLIPPER-Y

Herbert's Last Gift To Wife

(From "N.Z. Truth; s" Dunedin Hep.) Wives whose matrimonial misfits have ended m legal separation can hardly be expected to feel any twangs of sentiment over father's - "vacant chair." . . v . . ' \ BUT m the case of Jane of the Club House residential establishment m Moray Place, there. will be something more , than a turned-up chair to remind her of lost affections. Just one sad little token of a hearth of happiness blighted by the persistent cruelty and habitual inebriation of her spouse. To wit, father's slippers, and those, the only part of the Canning estate to which he claims ownership, Herbert Winser Canning had beqdeathed to .his wife m terms both doleful and satirical. "She can keep them!" Herbert declared m the Punedin Maintenance Court last week, when, after evidence had been called by Lawyer Moore, to convince Magistrate Bundle that Jane was entitlod to a separation order, he consented to the order. From Canning's demeanor during the brief proceedings he seemed hardly to realize what was going on. In -the morning he lined up to the bench and asked for an adjoui-nment for the purpose of calling witnesses. His worship assented, and when the parties reappeared m the afternoon, counsel for Mrs. Canning intimated that Herbert would" consent to a separation, but not , a formal order. Evidence, therefore, was * called to the witness-box to show how Herbert had jeopardized his chance of ever again sitting at the fireside and calling upon his Jane to trip along irf the loving gesture of, bringing hubby's slippers. ■