Curious Ground for a Divorce.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 2 June 1906, Page 42

Curious Ground for a Divorce.

' Mrs Marks, of Chicago, has asked for a divorce from her husband on the ground of infidelity, in striking her in the face with a fresh fish, that was not so very fresh either, though her husband was fresh enough. There is no brand of infidelity that is much worse than striyhig a wife in the face with a iish. No good woman can have confidence in a husband who will caress her with a fish. Try however hard she may to love him, the smell of the fish will hang around her. and it cannot l>e driven away. The love that should lie warm and genial becomes cold and clammy when she is clubbed with a fish. Women must be punished at times, but how much nobler it is to bit them with a stick of cordwood or an axe. than to whack them across the mouth with a cold, slimy, uncomfortable dead fish. No husband who lias ally respect for a wife will hit her with a fish,’and no woman who has any style about her will stand idly by and see herself assaulted in that manner. The lady should have left the marks.of the fish on her face and showed them to the judge, and he shoujd have granted the divorce at once. Think of kissing a woman who has lieen recently cuffed with a dead fish. Such a husband should tie a Mormon.