MATRIMONIAL WRECKS. "In the absence of statistics." comments the " Yorkshire Post,” "we would hazard a guess that in the majority of divorce cases only childism would have prevented the wreckage upon which the Judge has had to pronounce judgment. Without attempting to call in aid any statistics, or even claiming to state any immutable principle. we would hold—and we think the common experience would he in agreement—that thousands of parents have been saved from self-centred and narrowly selfish lives by the arrival of the one child. Who does not know of such eases? We refuse to he frightened by the bogey of one-chiklism. If the evils of excessive drinking could he eliminated wo should face those of one childism with something like high hope.”
LONDON, April 10. In the billiards tournament. Keeee 2667 and Carpenter 1910.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1928, Page 3
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