MARRIAGE AS A PENSION
LONDON MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE Mr. J. A. R. Cairns, the magistrate at Thames Police Court, giving advice on matrimonial troubles to women who consulted him, said:—“Marriage is generally the impact of two entirely different personalities. The police court is not infrequently the threshold to domestic amity. "I have said scores of times that marriage is for wise men and wise women, and not for babies hardly out of their teens.
“Fourteen matrimonial cases in one morning! I was attacked quite recently by letter, by society people, because I made some sardonic observations on the perfect tragedy of marriage. It is simply appalling. It is a commonplace that my district is a joke. “Young women know young men for seven days or seven weeks, allow them into matrimony, and think that they have a permanent matrimonial pension.’’
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 23
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