Woman's world

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 6

Woman's world

BRIDEGROOM S TEARS. j SEPARATED FROM MOTHER. MELBOURNE DIVORCE CASE. In {.lie Divorce Court in Melbourne hist week, before Air. Justice llood, Margaret Shdlon, 28 years of ago, Cripps i street, East .Melbourne, petitioned for a j dissolution of her marriage to .Tames ! Siielton, :i7 years of age, music-teacher, . of A vend. I Mr. Woolf, who appeared for .Mrs. I Siielton, said he proposed to rely on the | ground of constructive desertion. The J parties were married on August If), , 1!>()S. There were no children. When Siielton was courting the petitioner he told her that he was earning or i'o a week. After the marriage the parties went to the petitioner's sister for the wedding breakfast, and immediately afterwards Siielton talked of going back to Avenel and leaving his young bride in Melbourne- His sister remonstrated with him for suggesting such a thing, whereupon lie said he had been under a lot of expense in getting married. At any rate, on the night of the wedding the parties put up at the Commonwealth Hotel, in Melbourne. Siielton wept during the night because of being separated from his mother. The petitioner was also distressed, so that the pair of them were in the same boat. A man who would weep on the night of his marriage would certainly not make a successful husband. (Laughter).

Mr. Justice Hood: What about de lunatieo inquirendo? (More laughter),

EXIT BY THE WINDOW. •Mr. Woolf: Oil the day following the respondent went to his sister's house, and the young bride was left in the street. She walked past the church where on the previous day she had been married, and saw all the confetti strewn about the footpath. It was easy to imagino her feelings. She waited about for the return of her husband, and spent a large portion of the day at the Public Library. The parties went to Avenel to the husband's -mother's place, and four days later he suggested that the petitioner should return to Melbourne to get the wedding presents. She came to iuiljuitrne, and the respondent did not seem particularly anxious that she should r, turn. Finally she returned to Avenel. but by this time the husband had become a very cold, watery sort of individual, lie ,nscd to come home late at night, and get through the window at 4 o'clock in the morning, and when petitioner went to look for him she would find him at his mother's place eating porridge! (Laughter). Eventually when she spoke to liiin about his treatment, lii.s mother told her not to go there making rows. The petitioner, in her evidence, said that on several occasions she asked respondent to go into his own home on the opposite side of the street at Avenel. Respondent said that he really con(d not a/lord it. His brother gave him a sovereign and told him to go into his own house.

■Mr. Justice Hood: Did lie give him the pound in order to start housekeeping? (Laughter). The Petitioner: The. furniture was always in the house. Mr. Woolf: I understand that the respondent kept his clothes at his mother's house? —Yes. WIFE NOT WANTED. M. Justice Hood: Where did he have his meals? —He had his breakfast and nearly all his meals at his mother's place. And he left you all alone?— Yes. He used to say it was t hen per to do that! I used to see him very seldom during the day. iMr. Woolf: Wh-'t amount of moneydid you get from him?— About ,£lO in | ton months. Mr Justice H od: What does that prove ? j Mr. Woolf: That respondent was a j miser. Mr. Justice Hood: Who paid the baker? Petitioner: My sister. The butcher stopped coming. (Laughter). Generally : my 'husband went to his mother's place to tea, and returned at 10 or 11 o'clock |at night. 1 asked him finally for more ' of iiis company, as my health was be- | ginning to sud'er owing to loneliness and neglect, lie told lie did not want me and that I could go. My sister, in April. 1009, came to Avenel and took me away. tMr. Justice Hood: How long were you engaged. Petitioner: I was engaged twice. .My husband led me to believe that he had a beautiful home at Avenel.

How arc you earning' your living now? —I a.m nursing.

Mr Woolf submitted that tiie evidence was conclusive. Mr Justice Hood said hhati either Iho respondent was insane or was a miser. It was a curious ease, and he would give his decision later.

SCHOOL FOR BRIDES. EXPERIMENT FOR AULR'ICA. The Cincinnati Educational Department (U.S.A.) proposes to start a school 'for brides, where future 'housewife's !»:!;. learn the elements of their craft, mul 1." that extent make happy husbands. It i» the 'belief of Mr. London, superintendent or' schools at Cincinnati, that untold matrimonial misery, paving the way tu j separation and divorce, arises from the ignorance of the young wife, and that a six nionlhs' course under qualified inIstruelors would wonderfully improve a j woman's natural talent for keeping 'kousc and making a comfortable limn:'. | After taking a course the bride-to-be ■ will be qualified to cater for a family, locate a leak in a water-pipe, mcud a broken door-knob, put up a shelf, scrub, 'wash, iron, market, give first aid to an injured member of the family, darn stockings, lay a table in the most appropriate fa.-hion, and, best of all, aid her husband by preventing the frightful waste which Mr. London describes as characteristic of the American house- | hold.

It is proposed by Cincinnati to take advantage of the parcels post recently established in the United States to provide a service for bringing butter, eggs, and other market produce direct from the farmer to the customer. Postmasters in the United States have been directed to receive the names of persons willing to supply farm produce in retail I quantities by pared post, and lists will Ibe supplied to the public. Cincinnati in- | tends to develop this service and popularise it, so that everyone may. receive fresh market produce at reasonable rates.

On tJie other hand, there lias lately developed in New York and other big American cities a definite and organised movement to relieve housewives of much

domestic slavery and drudgery, which is always in greater evidence in America than in Europe, because of the lack of efficient domestic servants. It is pro-

posed by co-operation to institute ''neighborhood" kitchens and reftaur-

ants, where the business of supplying meals will be as systematised and as successful as any other domestic business, such, for instance, aB the public laundry, wihicli washes and irons clothes better, quicker, and more cheaply than can be done by private enterprise. ■ So far as one can see, there i? a growing rebellion in the United States against the bondage of the kitelfen and co-operation, it is believed, by the experimentalists, coupled with tlie capacity of the average American to adapt himself to ncsv conditions quicker than any other people on earth; will finally open a new vision of-happiness to American households. .