GIRL’S LIPSTICK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 5

GIRL’S LIPSTICK

A BROKEN ENGAGEMENT JURY AWARDS DAMAGES Damages amounting to £250 were awarded to Miss Gladys Hays, or Bristol, against Raymond Year. of Swindon, at Bristol recently for breach of promise of marriage. Formerly the parties worked together in the same department of a Bristol tobacco factory. Vear claimed that the engagement was rescinded during a quarrel over the use of lipstick and face colouring. Miss Hays slapped his face and took off the ring, which he threw into the fire grate.

Mr Justice Rigby Swift, addressing the jury, said ho supposed that a man engaged to a girl had the right to teH her she must not use powder or lipstick. After marriage he would not dare do so. If it was to be a ground for breaking off an engagement that a girl powdered her cheek or nose or used a lipstick there might be an end of marriage. If, added the judge, every time a girl held out a ring and slapped her young man’s face that meant the end of an engagement, there would be still fewer marriages than at presen:.