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In the Dominions it is not done, but in England last week swank Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, M. P., did not seem to think he was hurting his standing with his constituents when he sued to obtain half the $400,000 yearly income of his wife, a sister of Lady Louis Mountbatten.

Any "decent" woman of wealth makes proper provision for the man who "lives with her" and does not make him feel he is accepting "charity," firmly asserted the Member of Parliament. His wife, who ceased having him live with her in 1936 and tried to cancel a previous financial settlement, sat with averted eyes. So packjammed was the courtroom with Mayfair socialites that some emerged with torn coats.

Then abruptly the action was settled out of court. Rumor had it that Captain Cunningham-Reid had secured a "handsome settlement," and his wife also paid the legal costs of $105,000..

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