Nearly all the police court cases turn on the question of the wife’s housekeeping allowance. It is an endless source of dispute, and if it could be regulated, irrespective of caprice, most of the miseries of married poverty would cease. The poor are simple, and in this truth about them we see the truth about ourselves. We all want a regular income, and very few of us gain from being dependent on the affection of our family. Divorce, then, is sordid with regard to sentiment and with regard to money, and in these ways is greatly in need of change.
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THE GREEN HOUSES OF JAPAN
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THE GREEN HOUSES OF JAPAN
This chapter deals with the subject of prostitution from the point of view of public health, so that the nervous reader had better skip it.