The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-09-19
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Permits Wife to Rob Husband, Mother-in-Laws
Tabooed in New jersey and Nebraska
Can't Have Mikmaids

handed down by Judge Charles l..
Long of Springfield. Mass. come
these golden precepts concerning
man, woman and marriage:
''The husband is absolute lord and
master of the exchequer.
Under the law he is entitled to
his meals at any hour he wants them.
He may select such food as he
chooses. If he wants one food and
his wife another, the husbands de-
cision goes.
"A servant girl to whom the hus-
band objects must be discharged.
MAN, who pays the bills, and not
woman, is boss"
Bad but True.
1t was the celebrated case of
Marsh VS.. Marsh. Mrs. Henry D.
Marsh brought suit for separate
maintenance. Her husband was as
sistant treasurer of the Five-Cent
Savings Bank. Never was case
more bitterly fought on both sides,
and the husband won. strange to
say.
1t is too bad that such conditions
should exist, "said the learned court.
But there is no doubt that Mrs.
Marsh has displayed a persistency
in attempting to act as the head of
the family, and she should know that
the laws of Massachusetts, say that
the husband shall assume this duty"
A Chance for Solomon.
And there you are! 1t is the latest
decision of whole lot of others, and
so diversified are they that when
the last one is read you are as far
away as ever from knowing who is
bosssor what husband can do with
in his rights-or what hescan't.
Had Solomon lived in these days
of iaw-tangled matrimony he would
have had glorious opportunity for
the exercise of his supernatural wis
dom. Our latter day judges have
tackled the problem in all it's aspects
with success-that is, according as
you are husband or wife.
Put 1T Up To Wife.
Just read what one astute judge
at West Hammond, Ind. did. 1t
was the case of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Lickey, and Judge Frank
Green was on the bench. Witness
after witness came and went, in
the Lickeys, man and wife.
Poor Judge Green was up in the air.
Then came a bright light: Nov
Mrs. Lickey." he said, Il want you
to be the judge. You may impose
any sentence on your husband in
conformity with the law!"
Here's where / go to Jail for siA
chartered Lickey, blaneh-
ng. for he had been accused of hurl-
ng dishes at his wife.
Woman-like. Mrs. Lickey wept |
'oftly, just when her opportunity |
.ame.
tom" she said, II sentence you
o ten days separation from mel"
Judge Green gasped.
Trouble Over Expenses.
At Brule, Neb.. there came to
curt John A. Draper and his wife.
Aary. Judge Otto, a family man
himself, found it puzzling case. 1t
vas case of cutting expenses in the
amily, and husband and wife
ought so over the way of doing it
hat they got to court. Draper pro-
'osed that he discharge two of his
hree hired men, and his wife her
tired girl. He and one man would
hen do all the work on the farm
While the wife would do the house
old work, milk fourteen cows,
make the butter, care for the chick
MS and keep the garden. Mrs.
Draper baked at doing any work
Inside the house. but agreed to
i've up her hired girl.
No Out Door Work For Women.
Oh, Nebraska Solomon up-to-date
Judge Otto decided thus:
1T is a mans duty to do all out
de work on a farm. Milking cows
no part OF woman'ssduty, and if
,e does it voluntarily she must
ave the proceeds therefrom. On
10 0thnr hand mon y,ouct not h. !