WON'T WORK HUSBAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1925, Page 1

WON'T WORK HUSBAND.

LONDON, November 15. Tlio sLuiy ill' ;i lazy husband was tulil at Alarylebone Police Court yesterday, when Patrick * Hums, 23, a labourer, of 35, AVoodlield-road, Paddington, was churned with using threats to bis wife and with neglecting 1 1 is two children, a<ted 21 and I. Mr h'relic Palmer, the solicitor prosecution, produced a letter written hv Burns to an employer whose advice he sought, hi it he said that he had been out of work for four years although he had answered 200 advertisements; that he possessed an amount of intelligence above the average; that he could ilo anything having seen it done once ; and that he. could converse on most sciences, including law, economics, psychology, etc. .Mrs Burns said that in the last four years her husband had done only I I days’ work. The family had been living on her earnings, parish relief and the dole, and help Irom her parents. lie usually lay in bed until she took- him his breakfast, sometimes a chop at f) a.m., and then he sat up reading the paper and searching advertisement columns for a job—lor her. Then he got up and went out, returning for his midday meal at 12 or 12.30 At 2 p.ni. he went to bed and slept until she took him his tea, alter which lie went out sometimes until 1 a.m. On Saturdays he usually got drunk on tlie 7s lie retained out of the dole. Burns denied his wile’s story and declared that she was mentally irresponsible. lie said it was untrue that he stayed in bed instead of looking for work. 110 had written to Canada. Australia, and America for employment and had interviewed the most inaccessible employers of labour with a view to obtaining any sort of work, onlv to he told in one instance that ho was too good for the job. He had been a British Legion chairman and had been on several benevolent societies. tl It is a psychological fact that no one can understand the sufferings I have hail,” lie said.

The Magistrate, Air Wilberforce. in passing sentence of two months’ hard labour, said: .Many people nowadays spent a considerable portion ol the unemployment benefit in getting drunk. He warned Burns that his sentence was only a foretaste of what would happen to him unless he mended Ins ways.

HANDSOMER MEN. LONDON, November 17. Changes which are taking place in the honv framework of the human lace were : lttributed by Sir Arthur Keith, conservator of the museum, of the Royal College of Surgeons, in a lecture last week-, to a diminished use ol the

jaws. . Mr Walter Stoneman. who compiles the photographic record for the National Portrait Gallery of the nation’s most famous men, told a reporter on Saturday that in general men’s faces are becoming narrower and more iefined. “Comparisons between photographs of eminent men of 50 years ago and those of to-day show that modem men are much better looking that then grandfathers.” lie said. “The strain a ini hurry of modern life are doing much to alter the shape of faces. H the jaws are not being given so much hard work in eating as they were, increased talking is giving them plentt of exercise.” Afr Stoneman described the “naval face” as the finest type to be found in this country .