Rut. In Merced, Calif., Muriel Thames was charged with forging five checks so that she could raise money to pay off the $65.89 check she had forged last summer.

Professional Pride. In Miami, Mrs. Marian Smith Steeves, home economics instructor at the University of Miami, charged in a divorce suit that her husband complained about her cooking. In Miami, William Forster, onetime New York policeman, sued for divorce on the ground that his wife "intimidated" him.

Light Finger. In Lyndhurst, N.J., perplexed officials were industriously looking for the thief who made off with every one of the colored bulbs on the 18-ft. community Christmas tree standing near police headquarters.

Woman's Rights. In Edinburgh, after due consideration, the Lord Justice ruled that because Kathleen Love threw her engagement ring in her fiance's face, it did not follow that she intended to break off the engagement: ". . . To say that the return of a ring by a woman was, in all cases, an irrevocable step would be to deprive the female sex of one of its most cherished privileges, and literature and the stage of one of their most hackneyed situations."

Counterpoint. In Cleveland, Mrs. Agnes Graso, suing for divorce, charged that her husband caused her to become deaf by beating her, then broke her hearing aid when she refused to listen to his conversation.

Generous Spirit. In Honolulu, one $10 check, donated to the Advertiser's fund for the needy, bounced.

The Male Animal. In London, Ont., Police Constable Wallace Blanchard collided with a car, got out of his police car to press charges against the other driver, decided to drop the whole thing when he found that it was his wife.

Litterateurs. In Toledo, Ohio, Lawrence A. Ostman, his wife Helen and her daughter Virginia each won a $300 refrigerator for their entries in the same why-I-like essay contest.

Tourist. In Miami, an interested reader called up the Herald to ask just where the Welfare State was.

Short Change. In Baltimore, Prisoner William O. Gardner explained his long absence from his cell at Maryland Penitentiary: he had fallen off a truck while working as a trusty outside the prison walls, and had not telephoned during his 76 days of freedom because he didn't have a nickel.

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