IMPRISONED FOR COURTING!

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

IMPRISONED FOR COURTING!

LOVE-MAEIXG MADE DIFFICULT. Courtships at the Gorman Court are extraordinarily ceremonious affairs. A Prussian Princess is never for a moment left alone with an admirer who may he paying his court to her. Lovemaking, indeed, as it is ordinarily understood, must well-nigh he impossible under tho conditions in which it must Ik) carried on at the Prussian Court. A Princv who came to pay his court to a Prussian Princess would have few interviews with her, and these would always he made in the presence of a lady or gentleman in waiting—sometimes in the presence of both. If a Prussian Princess were to go out alone riding, driving, or walking with a Prince who was either engaged to her or paying his court to her, she would certainly ho punished very severely by tlli Kaiser, and most probably the punishment would takt> the form of a week's imprisonment in her own home. A little girl, aged six, had been breathlessly watching the terrible villain of the film-play. When lie reached the railway bridge sho turned to h-T mother and asked : "Oh, muvvor, what's he going to do now!'" "He's going to hlow up tlvnt bridge." "Rut, muvver," came back tho small, iiiriniring voice, "how can ho get onoug'i hreff 5 " "Why so distracted this morning, dear?" "1 have n new gown in mv mind." "Well, nip, iso don't get it on your hack uniil after tho first of the month."