" Gapers."

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 208, 6 January 1894, Page 2

" Gapers."

+~ ( Communicated.) " Wanted, forty young men of all sorts and sizes to form a 'Gaping. Corps,' to stand at the various corners and under the store verandahs." Gaping, especially at ladies, has recently become deservedly popular, and the proposed corps is to enable persons of weak minds to gapp, stare, and smirk in the latest and most approved styles. The duties to be allotted to members of the corps will be to take poet at corners and under the shelter of doorways or verandahs every evening, and especially on Sunday evenings, to gape at passing members of the fair sex. Those who have undergone the prescribed examination at the local branch of the School of Impudence will be appointed to make rude and personal remarks on the appearance of the passers by. The officers will be selected from those whom nature has gifted with the largest and most capacious mouths, with ears of a porcine character. It is understood that no one will be acaccepted as a candidate for membership who has more brains than a monkey, or who is suspected of being the possessor of the smallest taint of latent manliness. Jntending candidates are requested to meet next Sunday night on the Makino Bridge, Manchester street, or, if the weather is threatening, under the most convenient adjacent place of shelter. — By Order.