TASKS SET BY BRIDES

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 163, 7 April 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

TASKS SET BY BRIDES

STIFF TESTS OF I)EY< TlOV| One of the most oifßcnlt ta-..s tl ever fell to the lot of a lover w ;s c< ploted sonic years ago ny M '. M it, of San Franscisco. His suit was repeatedly reacted the lady of his choice, un r 1 one <.i thinking to put an end *j Irs att< t ions thereby, she told liini tl .it if would go round ho wo-'d witnouti cent in his pocket she wouid r-iiii • y lii McQuarry courageously tool; her at 1 word and started out, actually aced lpidiing the feat in a certain per named, a task which received its jl reward. j A young Frenchman, named Pie, Barnard, accomplished the remarkai feat of walking from Paris to Berlin stilts at the behest of a Breton ma'di wiio had spurned his addresses 1 wished to test his devotion. He was not allowed to dismount ei at night, but compelled to rest agai walls or anything that would supp "his weight, an impartial judge hav accompanied him on a bicycle to that the conditions were properly f liUed. The feat accomplished, Barn: again renewed li s siut, this time w success. I

A young London solicitor, in order win the girl of his choice, carried on task which all but those of unus courage would have shirked. The lady rejected his attentions the ground that she would only ma the man who undertook to find 1 brother, who had left home some ye previously, and restore him to 1 mother. The runaway had been 1 heard of in a South American cop] mine.

Nevertheless, pocketing a pho graph. he gave up his business and . out, only to return to England in tl pair when two years were over, a 1,0 11a J' come to the end ot his resourj witliout success. •

But just as he was leaving a Land terminus a man pa-sed him in street who bore a small resemblance) the photograph, and he inquired , name. .Judge of his astonishment wlj the stranger replied that lie was 1 individual in question, and the reuni of the family was followed fihor afterward by' the admittance of t solic tor as a' fully qualified member