RULES FOR HUSBAND

Evening Star, Issue 21750, 19 June 1934, Page 13

RULES FOR HUSBAND

MUST NOT SMOKE IN HOUSE A wife’s rules for'her husband’s conduct in the home were referred to at Kingston, Surrey, recently, when Mrs Mabel Adams applied for a maintenance order. Mrs Adams agreed that she had made a rule that her husband, William Edwin Adams, must not smoke,in the house. Counsel asked her ,if she had also made rules that her husband was not to spend his time reading newspapers, not to use too much soap in the bathroom, and not to use her tooth paste. Mrs Adams: I did not make the rules. Counsel; But there are rules, and if your husband breaks them you row him and make his life unendurable. Mrs Adams: That is what life says. Replying to further questions, complainant agreed that she ended a letter to her husband with “ Love from the girls and your true loving wife.” In reply to counsel, who asked. “ Was that only formal?” she said, ” It was only a matter of writing.” ; After Mrs Adams had stated that she wanted her husband hoirio only at week-ends, the Bench said the case would be dismissed, remarking: “ Von put all sorts of 'restrictions on your husband, and it appears to the court that there is no ease of desertion at all.”