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‘TpESDAY, nil 16. 1
tailing.
Al’ew and Extraordinary Rules, Just Laid Down by Hié’rh
armr-
British Justice, Seem. Likely to Revolutionize the Status
of Every iWifemAstoundiug Situation Brought About. _
Just Because Pretty Countess Cathcurt Rah Away y»
With the Young Earl
\\ If H \T is perhaps the most amazing
, ,’ hv-t oi'rulcs ever laid down for
' V the rwuulation of the status he-
.. nuaimul and wife has just been
into iln- English law by the grave
x»..-|' l.
uni i uni-ll High Justice Ml‘Cardle of the
i .-»-l .1 High ('nurls‘. Already Justice Mc-
l'u, ii . m'. haw been to med "the hus-
h... Hiu'mr" :mel undnuhtodly will go
.umry as the outline of new
. r! ‘: '\'b'i‘}' husband may demand 02'
:ml i" ilwir mulmll society.
i , . Mr-I‘erlw's (l‘cl‘lfil’lii is a part of
, 5;: ii the interesting case of the
i . i ll'hnlt'i, who l't‘l'i‘lllly refused to
'- -~'iii 'rv for :1
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'mi '- within
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-.i :[u l i:ll“'i‘l".'liii‘\\llll
4». ll idling your: i'iurl
-.i l‘mzvrl.
ll s»-~H:~ that just he-
lm: six» io'i‘t hvr hus-
lnuil'a homo. for the
mom romantic vivid
His-4 {it the it; Houdini;
l‘i'rl'll'l, (‘Ulllitt‘rb (‘uih‘
curt orilcrml lwr driv-
malmrs to main for her
eight of the most homi-
tiiul and oxpcnqivo
gowns London cmll'l
supply lxcr.
“(‘lmrtts tlwm to
husband." said the
Counter: when iiw
gowns were drlivorcd.
(ll’ I'ollrse any dross-
mgzlmr in .London Would
most gladly charge any-
thing to the “15.12th
nnrl (listingnlshwl llarl
of f‘cthcart. especially
ii mlcrcll to do so by
l.i« vhrlrmintz wife.
'iimn the Countess
lt'l :mny, with his
.~ um; lordship the Earl
THY
l; ("uvm taping her
4.; to- ‘,v sum: 'oi the
’31! (12.4.: it» «14.1)
,hrx" very gowns wero
Wind. It was not the
dignified and b e n t
hi: .uidorud E :1 rl of
Cd'ucart who expori‘
unwed (no joy of seeing
hi: beautiful (‘ountcss
u", ~in aha first wore the most splendid of
in ., new gowns. Instead, it was the
y’wUlLZ 12ml of Craven who applauded with
“is lmmls and eyes the magnificence of
lwr liqmmnce in those marvelous crea-
"l. m «.i (in drsrsmaker's art. Certainly
’3.» no! of Miicart might be excused for
.;.-:rtmxi‘ry; that under an circumstances
a - would at understand fir,- K3, should be
in fdi not Mun, WM pay the
lll‘--~%mlllakcr3- bills.
Of course, he was quite willing, and
thus had been, to pay for other gowns
that in: wife had purchased, and it is of
1": .rd that be expended nlmoat one-quarter
or 2.;5 generous income in supplying her
mm ins: such dresses. But for those eight
W113 ——nc: a single pound, said the Earl.
Wroupon tho drossmakers. pleading uttor
ignorance of and irresponsibility for the
disappearance of tho Countess and young
CNVOIL cntorod suit against the older Earl
Ind mind the courts to collect from him
t9. amount that bar lady-hip had ordmd
i mu to charge to Cnthcart.
Justine Mean-die heard all the ovidcnce
nrzi investigated thoroughly into tho loans
Chi arrangements which had eflsted be-
h'eon the Countess and her husband prior
to the episode of Deauvilio.
The dreomakers pleaded their case most
Mfluently and with many convincing an
gum. They accepted madam's com-
v
hands to charge her purchases to M hus-_
band's account in the utmost good filth.
I‘ll"? said. She was at that time “amt-
MIY her husband's wifq‘thu umindod
the court.
said. and m. M ”M
Mover dissatishotlm ml“ exist
van the am and tho Counta- cer-
could not met no prion!!! of
lava. allowed her lotto not
. mug tbom will: is.
t fl om the ono who loan! ’m If?
commenced to lay down 11th a:
blank. First. the Justice ma tho: it
“a My evident that tho counte— up
ltmamrtmsborumy.
fully determined when she purchased the
dresses to elope with young Craven.
"it certainly cannot be lawful to compel
a husband-to provideahis wife with a trous-
scau for a honeymoon with another man.
Therefore I do not see how the Earl"of
Cathcart can‘he expected to pay for these
gowns. which were purchased, not to add to
his rightful enjoyment of his wife's beauty.
but for the pleasure of another man to
whom he certainly owed no consideration."
“But." said the piaintli‘i dressmakers. “we
had not been warned. We supposed that
as the Countess oi (‘athcart madam had
ample authority to pledge her lins‘otmd‘s
are?“
A PhOiograph taken at Deauville of the young
Countess of Cathcart and her friend, the also
young Earl of Craven.
credit, and such has been the understand.
ing under English law for many genera-
tions.”
“It is time that tradesmen realize," re-
plied the Judge, "that a wife has no right
to pledge her husband’s credit beyond the
amount that he may stipulate as her allow-
ance or as being suillcient for her needs.
A tradesmen runs a chance, which be ac-
cepts upon his own responsibility, when-
ever he acts upon any other assumption.
It is for the husband, and not tho wife, to
fix the scale or standard of their social
and domestic life. It is for the husband
to say how much his wife shall spend and
how much she shall save: and a tradesman
is protected only when he is assured by
the husband himself that such bills as his
wife may contract are within not only his
stated allowance to her, out within his
desim"
It was then argued before Justice Mc-
Cardlo that the Countess had lived some-
what extravagantly and that she had been. 3
allmd so generously that the tradespeoplo
could not be expected to question any new
extravagance—especially since her husband
always had promptly paid her bills.
"I understand that the Countess has been
purchasing from fifty to sixty dresses a.
," said tho Judge, “all of which have
paid for by her husband. I fail to see
any circumstances in our socinl life which
I“!!! Justify fifty or sixty expensive
drum for any wife within the course of
a M your. .Snch extravagance would
indicate upon the face of it that the wife
guilty of it certainly must be “stretching
u? husband's generosity to the limit. Such
«Muslims in itself should be a warning
to truism“ .
us than Justice moon-die volition to”?
max moth! other torso. pungent remarks.
Mas they-wore: port of'bis decision
um: tho Earl or cesium-rs right to
deny ligament: for » his wife’s” purchases.
| v , .
’.
J ‘ 2'
of C raven
must become a.
part of *English
law, establishing
as they do a firm
precedent , for all
other Judges for
all time.
Among his find-
ings were .such
3 e u t e n c e s a 9
these:
“Even if an al-
lowance be not
agreed upon be-
t w e e n husband
and wife, yet if the wife he
told that she must be econom-
ical. it deprives her of any
agency to pledge her hus-
band's credit. ,
"Any one who trades with
a. married woman on credit.
so far as it goes against her
husband's wishes, does so at
his own risk. V
“Prodigality is a feminine
fault and not - a feminine
necessity. and tradesmen
, everywhere must always look
oskanco upon any extra?
agant’ trading by a married woman.
,"An Earl can, if he so wishes. absolutely
limit the standard for his Countess oven to
the extent of’ono dress a year. if he so
desires, and this some privilege becomes
that of the commoner as well.
"There is no rule by which a husband
may be made to pay for purchases made by
his wife when they are in the nature of
luxuries, such as elopement gowns or even
gowns for his own delight, if they be not.
expensive than he mills!“ they should be.”
In view “this doc ion half the trades-
men in Great Britain must at once revise
the methods of their dealing with the wives
of their wealthy customers.
As ‘one of them said in commenting upon
the decision: ; :
"Certainly. hereafter we will have to
make sure that when a married woman
makes a purchase from us she is, not about
to claps with some man other than hot
husband. And having “nailed ourselves of
this. we then will have to makosnr‘othlt
her husband’s love for her is so stroll: that ,
he will delight iii payingghor‘leo rather
than in questioning if " ' p c ,
The decision will hire undonbtsdl‘y wido.
spread oftoct. ' Hal-stators few 1: -i .1
five escaped payment of their wine'- mu,-
uo matter
formally hold that o. homily" w
big for even his wife's W
Husbands ha
w mill:
At top—T a young Burl of Craven.
who desert
Below—Tl: reldorly Earl of Cothcort,
'vertlsement in the London papers.
'v'romnce with the am no the talk at
younglicblsmn mum
’ .n
how exorbitant.” it has been lay
'o oven 1"?” rm“ ,
o
his pretty commoner wife.
whose refusal to pay for his
sloping wife's gowns, brought into
existence the remarkable
“charter for husbands."
would
too
bouncing to tradcspeople that they
refuse to pay bills for wives who were
extravagant or who had left their homes.
Even the Earl of Craven felt it necessary
after his return from his olopcment with
the Countess ofCathcart to protect him-
self from further financial obligations to
the young and beautiful ’wifo whom he had
left behind by inserting Just such an, ad-
own~Countess had refused to return to him
after Dunning bad he seemed to fear that
she would continue. however. to purchase
necessities and luxuries in his name. .1.
Under the new ruling, and in simlisrclr-
cumstances—ov_ on if it were 3110 and not}.
who had run away—ho will not have 30
resort to tho newspam. He will be prom
teeter! under the right-4 of the new bus-
bando' charter. . ,_ .
And so it is soon that behind “it“! ‘
opinions‘thero is: double that]!
only has the Earl of WW“
anally. but tho Countess oi ‘ .
English society. seven1 years in ,
' W
ton—has lost her hnobo‘mh
Hit
Above—The beautiful young
Countess of Craven,
who was a commoner-'5 daughter.
It was she whom the Earl
left behind when he doped to
Deauville. Below—Father of the
Present Earl of Craven. His
wife was Miss Cornelia
Bradley Martin of New York.
of Cathcart when he published similar ad-
vertisements a while ago. The Countess of
Craven had not run away with another
man as had the Countess .of Cathcart.
Lady Craven had been loyal. The situa-
tion was a straight reversal of the much
simpler circumstances which resulted from
Lady Cathcart's elopement. Together con-
sidered, they become complicated. The
Earl of Craven eioped with the Countess
of Cathcart. He was named as corespond-
ent in the undefended suit for divorce
brought by the Earl of Cathcart, who, in-
cidentally, is 60 years of age, as contrasted
to the 25 years of Lord Craven.
The present Lady Craven was before her
marriage the youthful and beautiful daugh-
ter of the town clerk of a Scotch village.
Then Lord Craven, as Viscount Ulilngton.
fell in love with her and married her. He
was 19 at that time. His romantic mor-
rlago to the daughter of the clerk of a
little Scotch town was responsible for
much talk. Her maiden name was Mary
George. '
Ho met her when he was training for
military service at a. camp near Invergor-
, den. the native town of Lady Craven. The
‘date of the marshy was October 4. 1916.
Although the union is said.” have been
frowned upon by the parents of. Viscount
Umngton, thoy were at last influenced by
the war to permit it, and his mother, tho
Dowager Countess of Craven (who still
lives and who was then, the Countess.
.fibeforo'ber marriage lilac cor-nem_ Martin.
”dong _ ' " of findlcy Horatio! flew York)
took; ‘ son's- bride to livyw’iihaher at
them home oi the finally. Combo
m vol-unite, while the young hus-
band _ I soldier in rm ea. In 1817 a
spin- borntolady Ufllnst'on and m
aha :Willinm Italian Bradley Craven;
my bond-ad other and sol-
Abbey and was quite happy so far as its
world knew, to resume his married life.
But he evidently grew restless, for be»
cause of escapades his wife twice brought
suit for divorce against him in 1920. When
the old Earl of Craven was mysteriously
drowned in August of that year and tho
young Viscount inherited the earldom tho
divorce suits were dropped.
Now it seems he is most eager for he:
to divorce him so that he might marry
the Countess of Cathcart, but she is taking
no such steps, on the advice, it is thought.
of the Dowager Countess, whose disap-
pointment over the conduct of her son is
a matter of general knowledge. and who
has apparently changed her attitude of
opposition to the marriage for a beat!“
of sympathy for her daughterrin-law. Tho
Earl of Craven is quite open in what di-
vorce courts describe as “misconduct."
The oliiciai record of the divorce trial
of the Cathcart case show: that a steward-
ess on a Channel steamship by which Lord
Craven and Lady Cothcart crowd to
France testified that witch she went to
their cabin in the morning she found “this
gentleman's artificial log on the settoe and
the lady and gentleman were in tho berth
in the some cabin." _
When the Earl of Conical-t out on kl!
wife’s allowance last August sh. and the
Earl of Craven wero in Doonviile tom
With her last 125 francs she won 175.“.
francs in tWo hours at the gaming table.
One fact that brought out much comment
at Dea'uvlile was that the youthful M
while daunting the disruption of his own
marital scheme, wore a mourning bond to:
his father.
As has been shown. the stair is no»;
ticulariy complicated since it is sold on
the Countess of Craven has no intention
of divorcing tho Earl. It is_belicved that
he and Lady Cathcart would marry inn.-
diatcly if he could incl“; his wife to dim
him. He has no ground to bring sol:
against her. it is believed. ‘
The Countess-of Calhoun h-rocordod .
one of the most beautiful women of be
loud. She issoyursofmgo. Shot-tho
daughter or tho into John l‘ruer'of Clio
Town, South Africa. Before her mom
botheEnrlotCothcu-tnhomthom
widow of Capt. do Grey Womr. She nit
tied the Earl of “that! 111919. ,
Her iaithiescness to as: husband fight
to explained in tho he: means so ,—
so years old. Sam ofborMiQ
British society point 81511.1,
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