Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1936, Page 24

B2 NEW DIVORGE BLIL RADICAL TOBRITISH {Husband and Father Still Is Supreme Lord in His Own Home. BY DEWITT MACKENZIE, Associated Press Staff Writer. NEW YORK, December 10.—The re- form bill now before the British Par- liament, making desertion and insan- ity grounds for divorce, is a radical proposal for conservative Britain, and in effect is & further knock in the eye | for the Englishman as lord of cre- ation, with rights not accorded mere females. England always has frowned on di- vorce and it is only since the World ‘War that a new and freer-thinking generation has started turning to the courts in larger numbers for this sort of relief. The increase is due in con- siderable degree to the fact that in 1923 the law was altered to give wom- en equal rights with men. A good many of the ladies have taken advan- tage of this. Before then a husband could get a divorce simply on the grounds of mis- conduct. But not so his wife. She had to couple misconduct with some- | thing else, such as cruelty—and ‘he} austere judges never winked at subter- fuge. New Law Aided Mrs. Simpson. Were the old law still in effect, Mrs. Wallis Simpson could not have got a decree nisi so easily as she did re- cently on the mere plea of miscon- duct by her broker husband. Indeed, she might not have been able to get one at all, unless the affable-appear- ing Simpson had been obliging enough to provide grounds for cruelty and advertise the deed so that she could produce witnesses. Other cherished prerogatives are beginning gradually to slip away from the English husband and father, who always has been the big noise in his own home. The young generation is developing considerable self-assertion, though the idea that father can be anything but supreme is comparatively new. The independence of American ‘women is a constant source of amaze- ment in Britain. The general im- Sleep Wins Friend In Law Banning Early Milkmen By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex, December 10.—The milkman's sleep—to say nothing of his customer’s—was guaranteed today by law. City Council passed an ordi- nance making it unlawful for any one to deliver milk (or other bottled goods) by vehicle betweea the hours of midnight and 6 am. Leading dairymen sponsored the measure, they said, to give their employes “better working hours.” pression prevails that the wife is an absolute queen in her home, and leads her husband about by the nose. The American woman is popularly sup- posed to be coddled and pampered, while her husband slaves day and night to make more money to meet her demands. British Abhor Idea. Whether that situation exists or not, the Englishman has thumbs down on any such freedom. This at- titude was demonstrated well a few years ago by the young Earl of Nor- thesk, soon after he had taken unto himself as his first wife the beautiful Jessica Brown, whose face and figure once were among the decorative as- sets of the “Ziegfeld's Follies.” The couple separated after a little, and his lordship was quoted as ex- plaining that in England a man is boss of the house, while in America the woman rules. He therefore thought that marriages between Americans and | English were a mistake. Later there | was a divorce. The earl's statement that the Briton was head of his house was quite true. He was undisputed head—and he still is, more or less. One does not wish to give the idea that the Englishman practices cave- man tactics in handling his affairs. Far from it. After the manner of his |race he is quiet and unostentatious, {but when he speaks he speaks with finality. He is the all-important per- son in the home. He Decides Affairs of Moment. 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