WOOING A SPIRIT.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1926, Page 4

WOOING A SPIRIT.

NEW YORK, April 3. The right of a woman to woo the spirit of her first husband without being unfaithful to the second was upheld in the Milwaukee Court by Judge Briedenbacb, who declined to give Joseph Czarchorowski a divorce in a suit in which the petitioner had named the spirit of his wife’s first husband as co-respondent. i The triangle was brought about by Mrs Czarehorowski’s belief in spiritualism and her attendance at seances where, her husband said, she had hugged and kissed the “materialised spirit” of her first husband who died in 1911. The wife admitted that she had seen and talked with her first husband, but she denied that she had exchanged kisses with his spirit. MEN BANNED. MONTREAL, April 3. To eliminate men from superintending women’s athletics and to prevent their exploitation .by male managers and coaches, a Women’s Athletic Federation has been formed P.t Quebec at a meeting attended by representatives of a score of women’s athletic clubs, “This will mean that women will j, ave charge of all women’s athletics. They are better able to judge than men of what women are capable. Women coaches will replace men.”' declared

Miss E. M. Cartwright,' who is the president. SHOP-GAZING HORSE. GENEVA, April 3. Tile unusual behaviour of a carthorse led to an amusing scene in the Geneva court recently, when a carman was summoned for cruelty to the animal. " Asked why ho beat the horse; thecarman replied: “1 didn’t beat him. I only punished him because he played me .a trick.” Tho Judge: What sort of trick?— Well, the horse is not like other horses. When ho gets hold of an idea nothing can change it. Now he’s taken it into his head never to turn to the left. Politics perhaps?—l don’t know. Hut tho day I punished him there was a steam roller in the road, and instead of passing it on the left he jumped on to the pavement and nearly killed a man. ■Since you chastised him has his conduct improved?—A little, but he still plays me tricks, especially on Mondays, The cunn.an’s employer entered the box and testified to the animal’s strange mentality. “He’s more like a naughty schoolboy than an ordinary horse,” he said. “One day he got loose and went for a stroll in town., He stopped in front of a tea-shop, bad a good look at the window, then went inside and had his fill of pastry. Rut nothing on eartn will make that horse •till’ll to the left.” In acquitting the carman the judge said the beating was justified in the circumstances.

and dashed away in the direction of the Belgian frontier. A moment later the smuggler legained consciousness, shouting .‘‘Murder!” Then he took to flight. One of the robbers and the woman are believed to have taken refuge in Belgium, but the smuggler and tuc other men are being*sought by., the French gendarmerie.