DIVORCE LAW "REFORMERS."
A remarkable state of affairs will certainly prevail in Georgia (U.S.A.) if the measure which the Divorce-law Reformers of that State have placed before the Legislature is adopted. According to this Bill a marriage shall be declared null and void if it can be shown that the wife enhanced her charms by artificial aids to beauty, thereby enticing the husband to marriage under false pretences. If this becomes law there must either be a gjeat pressure of business in the Divorce Courts or an alarming outlook both for the vendors of feminine fripperies and for the belles of Georgia themselves. Nice legal points will also arise. The wearing of hair which did not originally grow on the head of the wearer is, for example, scheduled as an illegal instrument of fascination.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9180, 1 September 1908, Page 4
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134DIVORCE LAW "REFORMERS." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9180, 1 September 1908, Page 4
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