The Germans are a practical people. They know how to make the punishment fit the crime. When a man assults his wife in England he is sent to prison and his family deprived of his support. If the term of imprisonment is a long one, his wife and children probably spend it in the workhouse awaiting his release. The German improve on this system. Instead of keeping the husband in confinement to the possible starvation of those dependent on him, he is arrested every Saturday on leaving work, and kept in custody until Monday morning, when he goes to work as usual. The process is repeated until his sentence is worked out. There arc 250,000 words in the English language, and most of them were used on Sunday by a woman who discovered after coming out of church that her brand-new hat was adorned with a tag, on which was written, “ Reduced to 6s. Bd. ’
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 50, 10 March 1894, Page 4
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155Untitled Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 50, 10 March 1894, Page 4
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