A wife’s right to one night out >n » week for a friendly game ot bridge him been upheld by Judge Vivian hrnnk Gable in the Domestic Relations v.ojul, at Philadelphia. Mrs Mary Ciampilti, aged 44, the mother of nine children. >me of them grown daughters, who, with her. are members of a bridge club, sought support from her estranged husband. " I'.' erj - thing went well at home until mv wile joined this women’s club,” the del end,tut said. “ She sometimes didn't: got home until 3 a.m.” “ A married woman has a right to some recreation, provided it is of the proper sort,” Judge Gable said. “ I see nothing wrong with a bridge club one night a week.” No order was imposed, the judge saying that he wouldtry to persuade the couple to patch up their differences.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22022, 3 August 1933, Page 16
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