BLACK EYES OF LOVE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3450, 1 April 1920, Page 3

BLACK EYES OF LOVE.

“HOVV I TIGHTEN THE MARRIAGE

KN OT.”

That he has saved scores and scores [of marriages from wreckage is the lhappy record of Mr Freeman Wrigley, the police court missionary at the South-Western Police Court, who has just been publicly complimented by Mr Bankes, K.C., the magistrate. “How do I do it? he said, in reply to a. representative of The Weekly Dispatch. “Well, it just comes melChEL]liC3l after so many years of p1"»1(‘.‘tice. My favourite method is to see the parties together. This generally results in a huge row, as they both give contradictory statements of the primary cause of the quarrel, Then I sit back, let them go for it hammer-ancl-tongs, and when -“Fhey are quitel exhausted, I point out the error of their ways and leave them xveepingl upc-n each'othell’s necks. I “My first -case was a woman whocame to me with two black eyes. To’ the usual question, {Ts it just a show of affection, or is it cruelty?’ she replied, ‘Well, he isn’t such a bad chap, l perhaps a word from you will put him rightf He was put right. i

"It is lamentable, but true, that these open brawls are in many -‘i:.~?.',’.S the only visible signs of a deep .2.--::.':-t-"ad affection.

“But one has to adopt di-’.'t'erent methods to suit different tenlpc-.ra-ments. Whereas a bul‘-_«it2_.<: attr-rude will often succeed in reducing a violent husband to a state of rml.i:l’bility, in other cases a soft .flllSW!;‘.;‘ is necessary to sniooth over the rough plmcs. “Another plan which is vev.';v' Surcessful is to point out to the one what a fine person the other is. Often I say to a husband, ‘Well, ‘you are st fine sort of a chap to knock about :1 nice, gentle wife like yours. You don’t know what a treasure you have." “After turning this over in his niirgcl hewill grudgingly admit that he has not observed the charms of his lady before, and once in that state of mind he will very easily come round to the right way of thinking. “One alleged brute of a husb:=.l\d whom I dragged out of bed at 11 o’clock one night to lehastise mentally, arrived downstairs in a state of extreme clishabille and indignation, but I talked to him in such a fatherly way that he went upstairs to dress fully and sat listening to me for half the night. He is now one’ of nr;-J ?‘«.=s? friendsfl’ “ A