CIGARETTE ROMANCE
SOLDIER BRIDEGROOM'S NIGHT IN A POLICE CELL. A packet of cigarettes sent to the front by a young woman living at Hildenborough, near Tunbridge We'ls, has led to her marriage to the soldier who received tho gift. The young woman wrote her name and address on the packet, which camo into tho possession of a..private of tlie West Kent !Regiment. Letters passed between them, and when the soldier came homo on leave he made tho personal acquaintance of the lady of the cigarette. He lost no time in> wooing her, and soon afterwards they were married m the villago church. ... Unluckily, however, the ™'. a o° policeman ■ inquired about the bridegroom's pass, and tho soldier had to adroit tliat he had overstayed his leave. Torn from the arms of his weeping bride, ho was obliged to spend the night in a police cell, and the next .morning he was charged with being an absentee. The magistrate was sympathetic, but, of course, handed him over to ail escort. Still, he penned on the chargesheet a request that in the special circumstances the erring, bridegroom might be dealt with leniently.
Vie havo received from tho fublisher a copy of the Christmas number of "The Zoo Standard." A supplement is issued with the "Standard ,n the form of a Zoo calendar, specially coinpiled by tlio Rev. J- C^owcb. "What was tho result, of the Flood. asked tho Sunday school teacher. "Mud," replied the bright youngster. Dick: "I hate to be iu debt. Harry: "Don't like to pay interest, eliP Dick. "No; it's tho principal of the thing that bothers mo. ■
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 76, 22 December 1917, Page 3
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268CIGARETTE ROMANCE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 76, 22 December 1917, Page 3
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