KISSES AFTER A DUEL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 11 July 1910, Page 7

KISSES AFTER A DUEL.

ITALIAN DEFENDS ABSENT FRIEND'S HONOR. Paris, May 13. ■A French journalist, M. Gungl, and an Italian fencing master named Carletti, fought a duel this morning in Paris at the St. Paul riding school. The fencing master was rather badly wounded by the journalist, whose sword ran through his forearm. M. Gungl's quarrel was originally not with M. Carletti, but with a man for whom Carletti acted as second. They had quarrelled in a restaurant, but M. (iungl's adversary left for Italy, and when M. Gungl's expressed his opinion for this sudden departure, M. Carletti promptly offered to ftght in his friend's place. M. Gungl, who had fought twenty j duels, accepted the challenge, and, after twenty-five seconds, ran M. Carletti through the arm. M. Carletti embraced M. Gungl, ana said in Italian: "I wish I knew French enough to express my admiration for you." 31. Gungl also expressed his admiration and kissed M. Carletti, and honor was satisfied. FAMINE OF SERVANTS. SHORT SUPPLY RAISES WAGES IN AMERICA.

New York, May 9. The scarcity of servant girls in America has become so acute that a special report on the subject has been sent to Mayor Gavnor, of 'New York, by Commissioner Robinson, head of the Bureau of Licenses. The commissioner declares that the demand for servants so far exceeds the supply that wages have risen about ekiht shillings a month since last, year, without having any appreciable effect on the supply of domestics. "Immigration is not increasing the number of servants as it formerly did ill proportion to the market demand." said Commissioner Robinson. "Only the immigrant girls lowest in the social scale will enter domestic service. It lias been said that the growing tendency toward hotel life and the improvements in labor-saving devices of the household may solve the domestic servant problem by making the servants less necessary to comfortable living. But these appear to be rather a result to the situation than an approach to the solution of the problem.''