61 AND 59.
SEPARATION SOUGHT AFTER 38 YEARS’ MARRIED LIFE. A woman applied to Mr. Hedderwick at North London Polio© -Court for a sumons against her husband. She wanted -a separation on the ground of alleged persistent cruelty. Mr. Hedderwick: How long have you been married? —Thirty-eight years. How old are you?— I’m fifty-nine, and lie’s sixty-one. Is it worth while you should separate from him now?* Is it not about time you were thinking about another oountm- altogether. ? The applicant px-essed for a summons, however. In the end the magistrate said he would ask the court missionary to interview the husband, adding that it seemed to him a very miserable state of affairs for people approaching seventy to fall out when apparently on the brink of eternity.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3345, 11 October 1911, Page 3
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12861 AND 59. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3345, 11 October 1911, Page 3
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