A NEW SPARKING SCHEME.

Kumara Times, Issue 1477, 22 June 1881, Page 2

A NEW SPARKING SCHEME.

A number of fathers who have daughters, have formed a society, the object of which is to charge young men who visit the girls, for meals, gas, weatr and tear of furniture, &c. There has been so much sparking goidg on which did not mean business, that the organization has seemed necessary. The charges are made every Monday morning, and if not paid, the young men are bounced next time they call In sdtiie instances it is C;O.D. ? the payments being made at once. Young men who mean business do not complain, because it is understood that if they marry the girls, the money is returned to thfirtl, of used to set them up housekeeping. Iri this way quite a stint is realized. If the sparking does not result in marriage, the money goes to pay running expenses of the house, or to clothe the girls, A couple Were married on the West Side a few weeks ago, who had been keeping company for two years, and the father of the bride presented tothem 270 dollars and twenty cents. The most of it was for gas and coal, though about sixteen dollars was for a front gate that was broken* Theyoun<* man kicked on paying for repairing the gate, at the time, alleging that some one else bad been there; but the old man told him he could quit if he didn't like it. As he had already paid over two hundred dollars, he stayed in. It seems to us as though this new idea would revolutionize the noble art of sparking.—American paper