AN EXCHANGE OF WIVES.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 8

AN EXCHANGE OF WIVES.

BOTH HUSBANDS SENT TO GAOL. (By a Correspondent.) BERLIN, November 5. Two great friends, an architect and a school teacher, who live at Gera, in Reuss, discovered that each felt it was very monotonous to see the same face every day at breakfast, luncheon and dinner, and for the sake of a little variety they resolved to change wives for a time.

Both felt that the difficulty of the plan was that the wives, who, as they said, simply adored their husbands, would never consent. But when the diffident husbands broached the subject both affectionate wives caught at it and declared that a change of busbands would be a delightful break, and that after the holiday each would return to her lawful spouse with renewed affection. And so the shuffle took place.

The four had forgotten that there is such a thing as public opinion and that Longucs wag. The respectable citizens of Gcra, and still more their wives, were horrified to find that the frau architect had suddenly become (he frau schoolmaster and vice versa. They put an inexorable German law into force, and this morning the architect was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for acting as a gobetween for his wife and the schoolmaster, and the schoolmaster was given the same sentence for acting as go-between for his wife and the architect.

' As for the wives, they were acquitted on the ground that they were under the guardianship of their husbands.