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“DEAR OLD FRUIT”
MODERN MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
Mr. A.E. Bell, a London solicitor, in a paper on “Is the Law an Ass?” at the Law Society’s conference at Eastbourne recently, declared that in these days marriage settlements were mere pamphlets.
“Betrothed beings nowadays,” he said, “court by telephone and ‘marriage settlement’ each other by letter.” He gave an example of a super up-to-date marriage contract which read:
“Dear Old Fruit,—Suppose we park ourselves at the altar together; you shall have the run of my rabbit warren and all its gadgets. You know that my jolly old life has had something done to it; I mean to say that when old daddy time throws a monkey wrench into my works some giddy insurance company will hand you a cool thousand and you can have my bank overdraft and everything
