JUDGE ON MOTHERS-IN-LAW.

Shannon News, 5 January 1926, Page 4

JUDGE ON MOTHERS-IN-LAW.

THE DUTY OF A WIFE. Mr. Justice Avory had a good word to say for mothers-in-law when he summed up a case in London recently An action was brought by Mr. Ainsley against his wife's parents, M* and Mrs. W. J. Timms, Northampton. Mr. Ainsley sought a declaration that his wife's parents had enticed away his wife, Marjorie Aline Ainsley, and had harboured her, but the jury found for Mr. and Mrs',' Timms, and judgment was entered accordingly. Mr. Justice Avory, on mothers-in-law, said; "It is quite true that mothers-in-law have been the subject of derision and animadversion, particularly in music-halls and in the theatre. But there are mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law. They are

not all bad. They are not to be abused as a class. After all it must be remembered that a mother-in-law is first of all a mother and only secondly a mother-in-law. It is as well to bear in mind the feelings of a mother toward her daughter when she is being abused because she is a mother-in-law." Mr. Justice Avory, continuing, said that Mr. Ainsley was a person apparently who had an exaggerated idea of his own importance and of his own attraction. "He apparently thinks," added the judge, "that it is the duty of his wife to gaze fondly upon Mm all day long,, like a faithful hound waiting for her lord and master."