24 MARCH 1923, Page 27

Another of last week's cases, Callot Soeurs v. Nash, proved

at least that Mr. Justice McCardie deserves th.e customary appellation of "learned." Many famous -writers were called to . his aid in condemning sartorial extravagance in wives. But it is doubtful whether such erudition is an adequate weapon with which to combat the feminine instinct for self-adornment. Those husbands who have to do the paying must gain solace from the reflection that throughout Nature the male is the more decorative creature, and that it is possibly a consciousness of this fact which cements the unholy alliance between wives and milliners.