CITY OF EASY DIVORCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19030, 2 June 1936, Page 11

CITY OF EASY DIVORCE

MANY GROUNDS EVEN SINGING INCLUDED VIENNA, April 17. In gay Vienna, city of dance and ;ojig, a man may get a divorce beI'.auso his unmusical wife bores him by singing. You can also get a divorce—unless you are a Roman Catholic on a hundred other grounds described as repented ill-treatment, unfaithfulness, desertion, or offence to your susceptibilities.

This last can include a husband’s refusal to buy his wife an evening dress.

Herr Fritz is now suing for a divorce because he cannot bear his wife singing. Soon a case is to be heat'd in which the wife is suing for a separation ardor because her husband insists on teaching her—conjuring' tricks. She says he does tricks' all evening, and it annoys her.

.Lately card-playing and horoscope•catling figured in a separation plea. She was said to play cards and read the horoscope- all day long. But the judge decided the wife’s moderate stakes of threepence were not a suliie.ient ground. One man based his petition on the ground that his wife never washed. But he could produce no witnesses to prove that he had over asked her to do so. They stayed wedded.

A Jew can sue his wife for unfaith'u I ness, but a Jewess cannot sue he r husband in the same wav.