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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9060, 8 April 1908, Page 3

WHAT IS BEAUTY? Afcer a trial replete with humorous incident, a jury sitting at Chicago under Judge Landis, who earned immortal fame by imposing the fine of £6,000,000 on the Standard Oil Company, has covicted of fraud Mrs Goodenough, a marriage broker, or, in the American vernacular, an "affinity col lector, "for making false representations regarding the beauty of one of. her clients, a buxom lady of Texas. Not since the classical daj's of the Judgment of Paris has such a subject been submitted to legal abjudication, and the trial was consequently watched throughout the country with breathless interest, broken by frequent outbursts of Homeric laughter. The action was brought by Mr Grable, a gentleman of Missouri, who recently married a widow of Texas on the strength of Mrs Goodenoughs written guarantee that she was wealthy and good-looking. Mr Grable was apparently contented with his wife's wealth, but declared that in styling her good-looking Mrs Goodenough perpetrated a fraud through the medium of the United States ma 1. Mm Goodenough, in dsfence, contended that her guaiantee merely meant that the Texas widow was handsome enough for Mr Grable. She argued through her counsel that beauty was a relative term—that a belte in Texas might be a "wallflower" in Missouri, and that in any cape, beauty was only skin deep. The jury asked to see Mrs Grable, and after deliberating for twentyfour hours delivered their verdict that Mrs Goodenough was ctuilty. Judge Landis imposed a fine of £IOO, with the alternative of eighteen j months' imprisonment. The defend-1 ant immediately gave notice of appeal, which was to bo heard on ' March 2nd. , ' , I

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