Alimony Club.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 October 1913, Page 4

Alimony Club.

CHEE iry DINNER I N ( J AOL

Ludyow Gaol, New York, where thirty thousand husbands are imprisoned for refusing to pay alimony to their wives, was en fete one night recently, on the occasion of a dinner given to the alimony fraternity by Edward Pasey, who for years has proved a refractory husband. Special privileges are enjoyed by the alimony club, as it is called, and Sheriff Ilarburger, in evening dress, was amongst'the guests who graced the festive board. ''Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a (•age," was one inscription upon the walls of the dining-room, and facing that was another, "Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute or alimonv."

Mr Pasey, who has a pretty gift of humour, presided, and congratulated the grass widowers on the fact that for a time at least they were far from the madding throng of household cares and 'expenses. After dinner there was music and turkey-trotting. 31 rs Pasey, interviewed subsequently, expressed the opinion that the time had arirved when the Alimony Club should be disbanded. "We have had enough of this tomfoolery," she said. ''These men should be treated as common felons, and not segregated in such a way that they can enjoy themselves whenever I hey like, iand have everything they care to pay for."

A leal uiv ol I lie li;i ii(|ucl I !i;ii exasperalcd Mrs I'asey \v:is llial, while lire husltand could nol see his way lo paying her I'M a week, which (lie Courls awarded her while her suit ('or divorce was awaifinp - fri:ll, he could carelosslv squander several weeks' alimony on a symposium lor his alimony el ill) cronies. She also Itelaliourod ShorifV Tlarlmryvr, who was amongst (he blithest of flie lditlie ai I lie birthday dinner, forpneoura,i>'ini>' such extravagance.