Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-09-13

That homely and pathological old
saying which, being rendered very pee
litely<is to thef effect that what isAa eul-
mary emolliment for the anserine female
is equally available for the gustatory en-
richment of the male of the species
does not appear to command in all Brit
ish courts of law the exact observance
merited by. It's sobyioaslY ipna rtial wis
dom and::great antiquity. The tradition
al chivalry of the Briton in the jurors
box is in eternal peril 70 any. interest of
the sterner sex that may be so unfortu-
nate as to conflict legally with feminine
allegations or claimsi and it issaboYe all
things difficult for the Englishman
arraigned upon charge. of any form of
social bad faith towards a woman to es-
cape exemplary damages. Many an i'll
lustlatiEe suit has been d uetetIs froa1s
foreign papers in these columns to show
how inevitably the masculine defendant.
i'm a British breach-of-promise case is
condemnedt to pay. heaviiy for his un-
gallant offence, Scarcely can such
defendant offer any defensive testimony
that his jurors will consider in extenua-
ton of such offense. If there are wit
lresses and letters to slfoW that he ever
treated or wrote to the accusing lady in
such a manner as to make her and other
credit a specific matrimonial intention
OH his part he must answer in adequate
pecuniary compensation for his ultimate
detection in. the. matter. - Take, for i'll
stance, suit of the kind lateiyA tried at
the Lancaster Asslzes: IA spruce-look-
ing young lady, milliner, from Ulver-
ston," bearing the partly UNPLEASANT
name of Miss U Annfbefia & zRedheatf,
brought. an action against Mr.. Thomas
Huddleston, the son of local magistrate
of great respectability and wealth, upon
the strength of the following circufn-
stances: Seven years ago ktile plAin.iffs
while dressmaking for some youfg ladies'
at their home in INVERSION, met Mr.,
Huddleston There as. a visitor, and attract
ed bis almifatienftp suetn an extent that,
from thencefofth, lie was dilligent
caller at her own house. He was fifty
yeai old. or nearly. twice her own age,
she did not lt first allow herself to con-
strue his attentions as more than friend
lys hut presently sWlaens<hiss manner
became more particular, her comprehen-
sion changed to possibilities more seri-
Gus. The elderly bachelor was an
assidious visitor for some time, however,
before ayowing his matriu7on ial Pla
| ton; owing, as he duly explained, to
the exacting disposition of his venerable
| father, who ywouid seutshim OF with a
shilling if he committed any connubial
| indiscretion. At last,s though, upon
assuring himself that his fastidious
parent did not object to the object of his
mature affections, tlleA fascinated old
fellow made formal offer of his hand to
| Miss Redhead, and was not rejected.
March, 1871, witnessed this comfortable
result, and the interviews and letters
| thereafter for a year. and half were in
keeping With its sproprieties. But an
| old lover is more uncertain than a
younger one in long engagement and
| involving financial inequality, and, not
long ago, the mature HuddlestOn allowe ed
his fancy to wander to Miss Dodgson,
who,. with 100lbs. a year, eclipsed the
trusting milliner in his affections. From
all human experience there does not
seem to be any such thing as tact posi-
lble in the management OF such an affair.
Recreant knights, old or young, are
| always awkward in it; :neyer dexterous
tand thus very often supply the most
effective evidence against themselves
for any future prosecution. Mr.. Hud-
| dlestOn tried the very common, clumsy
device, of pretending to construe a
letter. Of natural remenstrailee against
his fnSnstancy into an implied release,
and answering as though the lady had
4 revoked their er1ga cement herself.S As
Miss Redhead had done Dothing of the
kind, however, she responded to the i'm
pl;cation with the assurance that she
should hold the gentleman to his prom
Use, and thence her actions in. law as
above noticed. > Plaintiffs counsel hav-
ing reclted this story to the Court, the
counsel for defence made, the best argu-
ment lie could for HIS client, maintain
ling that the engagement between the
parties was made subject to the consent
of defendants father, which, at the last
| moment had been refused But bench
and jurors refused to. take any serious
view of the fflal subsection of a lover
fifty years old, and a verdict for 91 ,75O
was promptly awarded to the aggrieved
lady, s'That was sauce for the goose, -
as the old saying goes, and its dispensa-
ton typified the British juryman's
average alertness to vindicate the fair
sex; but in another reach-of-promise
suit, prosecuted before the Lincoln As
sizes, the sssaaee for the ganfler9 was
not so obviously conceded. In the lat
ter action young farmer named Smith, ,
of Deeping st. James, was the plaintiff,
and the defendant certain lively Miss
Fanny Jenkinson, who, after engaging
herself to Smith, had heartlessly written
10 him, s.Dear Friend: l write a. few
| lines to yeusto say that IthilIld shall
not be married at all, SO you must make
the best of it. ! feel very sorry for it,
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