A PATH OF ROSES.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 109, 21 January 1880, Page 2

A PATH OF ROSES.

"Our America ti Couuius " can afford to give us lo!}^ odds m the matter of inventions, aud wiiilo fully entitled to the oriKiuating o f those enticing enjoyuieuls, " Kins iv the liiu.g;." and " Corn Shuckiu^s " their ltest institution puts the other two completely iv the shade. According to a rocetit corregpondent a JNe\v England State has gone m for an agreeable amusement called '' f^ugging Sociables," \\iiicU. are to be held throughout the district fo.r Church and other purposes. Jt is proposed to charge ten cents to hug any young lady between fifteen and twenty ; five cents for young Vvuio»v* ; one hundred cents to hug another man's wife; old maids, two for a aent., while female lecturers are free, with a vhrouio throwu m. When it is remembered that New Englai;il is the very cradle aud hot hou,se of Puritanism, where vvery man is — or at all events, pretends to bo — religious-, if taking pru>iiiineat parts m *' hugging «ouiablos " b.> iv keeping with the fhqracter, all I can say is, religion, lik_e virtue, brings owu reward, — a reward not at all to be sneezed at. I oaly hope .thai oti r religious brethren m the oolouy will acclimatise the invention, and they may rest assured of having secured one convert. Tr.uly if the way of the transgressor h,e Uai'ct j tl^t of the righteous mau m heoo^uing particularly roqy.