“HORRORS OF MARRIAGE”
SALESMAN’S ADVICE EMPLOYER NEARLY RUINED According to the “Daily Mail,” a Berlin misanthrope, claiming a month’s wages in lieu of notice, told the judge in the Labour Court that he was an “arch enemy of marriage,” because he had been too long in the office of a divorce barrister and had dissuaded numbers of young couples from marrying. So convinced was he of the righteousness of his mission, that he left the barrister, he told the judge, and became a furniture salesman. He insisted on depicting the horrors of matrimony to furniture buying fiances. “I advice you not to get a large wardrobe,” he would say. “It is far better to get two small ones. Then there will be no difficulty when divorce compels you to share up the furniture. There will be quarrels enough as it is.” The shop owner declared that several panic-stricken couples fled. He would have been ruined if he had retained the anti-matrimonialist.
The judge granted the claimant’s plea on the ground that stupidity did not justify the withholding of wager
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 353, 14 May 1928, Page 14
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