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Show THE HEAD UP THEJHOUSU, Woman llarUrait la na la a, UarUlon I a riltral (autt. The ancient and vinerablo question first raised In Aiiis'a day, and dls cussed with more or less jlgor by that gentlemen's descendants sver since, as to who Is the hnd of the house, tho man or tho omsn, tie been settled, it may bo hoped finally, by Judge Pur-nell Pur-nell of the United Butts circuit court 1 be point rame up la a case In Virginia, Vir-ginia, whore a nounn, a storekeeper, endeaiored to tike idianUgo of tho bankruptcy law, but had her petition denied by a lower coat on tho ground that aho was married and living wltn her husband, she wu not the head of tho house Judj, Purnell reversed this decision, snd rendered' an opinion to the effect that a murlod woman llv Ing with or apart from her huaband la the head of the houn.old In tho legal sonso of the term, Al this doclslon Is rendered In a federal court, It applies, of course, to the holo country, and all American wosM fr0ra Pus't Sound to Calais nuyrtjolco that thdr status has been lui beyond furth.r dispute. Husbands .id other moscu-lino moscu-lino usurpirs miy now aiep down nnd out, i v |