The Henson Journals
Tue 28 July 1925
Volume 39, Page 155
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Tuesday, July 28th, 1925.
It is a wise saying of Swift that there would be fewer unhappy marriages in the world if women thought less of making nets and more of making cages.
Lecky. Map of Life. p. 301.
I spent the morning strolling in the garden with Ella and reading the Times, which is full of the threatened crisis in the mine–fields. Sir Arthur Pease, whose opinion I hold to be sound, has issued a statement saying that Messrs Pease & Partners' mines are now losing 1/6 on every ton they raise.
In the afternoon Lady Thompson motored us to a Garden party at Flixton, an Inigo Jones mansion now owned & inhabited by Sir Shafto Adair.
His daughter told me that the marriage which I celebrated in S. John's, Westminster, some while back between Godfrey Phillimore and a divorcée is turning out well, and that old Lord Phillimore is reconciling himself to the fait accomplis with more success than might have been supposed in a man of his fanatical rigidity on all subjects which, like marriage, come within the categories of ecclesiastical law.