JOYS OF GERMAN LIFE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9466, 8 June 1909, Page 6

JOYS OF GERMAN LIFE.

HOW A CITIZEN BREAKS 19> LAWS IN a;day. Police fines to the r amount of' £500,000 ate annually inflicted $a Germany. ;To explain* Ww this large sum is accumulated,” the Munich humorous journal “Jugend’*’ enumerates the misdemeanours [committed in a single day by a respectable tradesman, costing him £6 7sand a week's imprisonment. , On rising in the piorning he opens-’ the window. The window is violently blown baok by thd* wind, breaking the glass, which "falls into the street. Two shillings fine. While at breakfast he fills in the necessary forms to report to the police that he had engaged u maid servant a week previously. For not having reported her within the specified time of three days (5s fine). On his way to business he runs after a tram way-car. For jumpingon to the oar while in motion (ss). His goods are so effectively displayed in his shop-windows that an obstruction is caused by the crowdin the street (10s fine). His window-dresser bad displayed some articles in such a manner that tbe merchant’s Ohristian name on the signboard was hidden (5a fine). At noon be returns home by railway and loses his season ticket (6a fine).

He is awakened from an afterdinner nap by the Government inspector of the Old Age Pension and Insurance Department, to whom he has to produce the insurance card of bis servant. He has afißxed all the adhesive stamps correctly, but has forgotten to cancel them (10s fine).

Then he receives a visit from a constable, who informs him that bis child was vaccinated two days after the regulation time (£1 fine). Cycling back to business he is stopped by a constable for having forgotten his cycle-card (Ss). He la stopped again for riding to so fast (3s).

A third constable stops him for riding through a street not open to cyclists (3b). A fourth stops him for not sounding his bell properly (3b).

A fifth, because he had no brake< (3s).

A sixth, for having removed hiß> feet from the pedals (3s). By constable he is stopped for not holding the handle-bars-(3s).

He returns home from business in. the twilight, and is reported for having no light (8s). After supper he plays piquet with his wife, using cards which do not bear the Imperial dnty stamp (80» fine).

Having omitted to appear at the drill of the fire brigade (10s), he retires to bed tired out. and forgets to draw the blind of his bedroom window (one week’s imprisonment).