Pretty Young Spanked Wife
This 1936 newspaper clipping records a pretty young spanked wife who got minor sympathy from the judge, but not the actual judicial relief she sought when she went to the law:
The newspaper reports:
WHAT MAGISTRATE TOLD THE MAN WHO SPANKED HIS PRETTY YOUNG WIFE
A pretty young Clapham wife complained to the magistrate at London South-Western Matrimonial Court yesterday that her husband “spanked” her. And the husband admitted it.
“You shouldn’t do that,” said Mr. Mullins from the Bench. “Wives don’t like it, you know.”
But he refused the separation order sought by Doris Calvert, who claimed that her husband, Charles Calvert, a tea merchant, of Orlando-road, Clapham, S.W., was not maintaining her and was being persistently cruel.
Wives don’t like it? I know a lot of people who disagree!
Thanks to Richard Windsor for the clipping.
