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Show abolished since the roigo of Cbarlen II ns a means of correcting wives. I am not avers to 1L practice In certain cer-tain cajteji," a well-known novelist tel l to Dally Mirror. "I am thlaklnc of that laxy. elflb. vain" type of wife who prefers her own comfort to looking after her children. child-ren. 8h should be caneri Just a If she were a caughty child. "Such a punishment would bring an Idle woman to her tenses where words and entreaties would be In rain. "I seriously mggeat that husbands should have the right to beat their wives under exceptional cJrcumstaa-cca." cJrcumstaa-cca." London Dally Mirror. oo RIGHTS OF HUSBANDS IN ENGLAND. ENG-LAND. What are tho rights of a husband? Has he the right tl) to supervise his wife's wardrobe and 20 to beat his wife's wardrobe and (2) to beat his provocation? Thone (picstions arise from two interesting in-teresting law eases, one In Switzerland Switzer-land and one in AmMica, on the question ques-tion of a husband'8 legal rights at home In the Swiss case Slgnor Sanguin-etti, Sanguin-etti, a well t..-do Turin tradesman, is. tays the Daily Mirror correspondent, about to sue his wife for a divorce' on the ground that bhe insists upon wearing tight corsets, a form of dross be disapproves of. if the ease reaches the courts tho question of a husband's rights in allowing al-lowing or disallowing his wife to wear certain .Iresse.- or costumes will ho legally threshed out. In the American cuso Justice Crane I ot the Suprcn e Court of Now York refused to grant a reparation to Mrs. Edith Robinson, who alleged that her husband was guilty of cruelty ;,nd In-hutuuu In-hutuuu treatment. According to the Judgment, "a wife who teases her husband Into a temper onrin.d ju.nlty :m application for Sep. aration on M.e ground that he, in the temper t-he h rself provoked, used violent vio-lent language nnj strucL. n,.r nvo an outburst is not necessarily cruel or inhuman " Opinions on those questions were obtained tecently from well-known so-Kcitors so-Kcitors nowilMx and others. "A husband under English law has "o right to strike or assault his wife In my whv said a solicitor. "If he does so he can be summoned by his wife and fined or imprisoned in the ordinary way. Ho is Just iu the name Dint ion as any one else in the matter mat-ter "if a wife has shown great provocation, provoca-tion, that fact would have a mitigating mitigat-ing . effect on her husband's punishment. punish-ment. "As regards a husband having the right to chonso his wife's costumes he has no leeal right whatever. "He can merely criticise. His wife Jiiav go out In the streets wearing a ballet skirt, but he musn t lav hands on her and force her back Into tho bouse." "Although wife-heaUug has been |
