The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-04
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
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police are doubtful if any will be
made.
May Spank Husbands.
According to the latest dictum OF
the lower courts, husbands who abuse
their wives may be spanked ad libitum
by their grown up sons, without in
curing judicial censure.
THE next time your father gets
abusive to your mother" declared
Justice Barlow to two sturdy cham
pions of their mother. the other day
in his court. don't beat him up so
that he will have to sc TO the hospital,
but just give him sound spanking"
The young men said they would.
The father who had them arrested for
doing just what the court said they
had a right to Go, was nonplussed by
the findings of the court. His face
was covered with bruises and he
looked as if steam roller had passed
over him. While III an irTitated frame
of mind he had started in to give his
wife tongue flashing when the sons
told him TO stop. Proclaiming himself
master in his own house he ordered
them out and renewed his verbal at
tack on their mother. The sons un-
dertook to suppress him and in the
process, mussed him up so that his
best friend wouldn't recognize him.
The domestic relations court is con-
gested daily with squabbles over
trivial things between couples, which
the magistrates have trouble in ad-
justing. If put into widespread prac-
tice, Justice Barlow's remedy is ex-
pected to have a more wholesome eff
feet than tones of sentimental moral
izing and advice handed out from the
bench.
Statistics of the Happy.
m IN
happy married couples in the United
States, compiled recently by a Phila-
delphia society woman, Justice Chas.
L. Guy, of the supreme court, who has
presided over several thousand divorce
suits in the six or seven years he has
been on the bench, this week declared
that the startling number of divorces
among American men and women was
due in large measure to the incom-
patibiIity Of newly eds" After a
couple had lived together for ten years
he thought the prospect of divorce was
comparatively small.
'Since there is no such thing as
marriage insurance" the Justice OBJ
served with a smile, "it is impossible
to predict the period of risk with sta
tistical accuracy. You know in Italy
parents take out insurance for their
daughters on the day of their birth
that they will marry.
From the hit-or- miss state into
which the prevalence of divorce has
brought married people in our country
sometimes wonder why there is no
such thing as marriage insurance, to
be taken out on the wedding day, to
indemnify the contracting parties for
not staying married! Then we would
have a fine row of statistics on the
average age of divorce
Seriously, though, in my experience
H. II
vorceS occur during the first five
years of welded life If two people
| live together ten years the chances
are that they have decided that then
| union is happy"
But why do the divorces come 81
| early?"
Because at first the newly welded
| couples care too much and afterwarC
not enongh," Justice Guy responded
wisely. Between the two stools o
alteration and Indifference they fall.
Perhaps the husband is inclined tt
become boss instead Of lover. Per
haps the wife would like TO continue
a worshipped queen instead of becom
ing a real 'helpmate.' In either cas-
outraged vanity is at the bottom o
the trouble.
The American mother-in-law ha!
been very much maligned," Justic
Guy added. In the case OF a MARTA
dispute the more offending party like
to shelter himself-or herself-behin'
the convenient fiction of the mother
| in-law. But l have generally fount
that person to be on the side of RICH
and justice, even if she had to take
stand against her own flesh and blood
| The mother law is q sensible Amer
lean woman you must remember"
Learned to Ride Astride.
On her way back to London from
Lady Moons ranch in the foothills o
the Colorado Rockies, near Fort Col
Inns, where she learned to ride astrid
and hunt like a native, Lady Con
! stance Duggan; of Duggan Manor
Ayrshire, Scotland, made some caus
tic observations of the present da,
foibles of some of her sex. She hat
spent the winter with friends in Cali
fornia and left her brother, Lord Dug
gan, to go to British Columbia Of
some mining business in which h
is interested. The growing predilec
ton of we'll bred women for cigarett
smoking she said was due to tn
same spirit of unrest that cause Ger
tain members of her sex to interes
themselves in the suffragette move
ment.
Cigarette smoking, like bridge i
fast becoming a vice in London, an
one sees young women of good socia
position smoking publicly at the Ritz
the Carlton, Claridge's and other no
tells. Many American women VIII
would not dare be seen smoking a
home smoke in European hotels an
restaurants. But there are still /
England a very large percentage c
society women who frown upon thi
custom and who will not tolerate il
their houses.
Il lunched in a New York hotel
day or two ago with friends and sa'
half a dozen women sitting smoking /
the palm room with their coffee. BIZ
they all looked half scared to deaf
and none of them smoked with tn
ease of habit
Asked what she thought Of wome
drinking in public places, Lady dug