THE COST OF A KISS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 106, 24 September 1901, Page 3

THE COST OF A KISS.

We have been told that there aro times and places for all things, and we therefore presume that a motor-csr is certainly not tne place for courtship, nor is it tho time for kisßing when the machine h pursuing its wild career in a cro.vded thoroughfare. We are led to these remarks by the motor-ear performances if one Geo. Hagerman, an engineer, of Old Couipton-Btrert, London. With a young lady by his side George spread a trailing odour of para fin behind him as he rattled thiougli tho district of Isleworth. He was all right till he left steering forsweolhefcrting, and abandoned caution for kisses. W.th one arm round the lady's waist he taatcd the sweetness of her lipa, forgetting as he did so alike the presence of onlookers and the neoeasty of keepiog a bright lookoutLove beiug blind, and the motorcar not having eyes of its own, the result was a collision with a baker's cart under which a young own nanv;d Cobbler wa3 driven with some force, the lady from tha motorcar lauding on the top of him. The lady recovered her presence of mind first, and th mghtful for her cavalier, urged him to escape, crying #i Oh j Georgia, go along ! Go along ! Don't stop ?" So " Georgie" went on wildly, despite the ciies of a policeman, and he miglu Have got away but that in his harry he burst a tyre and crippled his car. All these things were told to the Magistrate at Brentford the other day, the result oF those untimely kisses being a fine of 40s and costs, with two pounds oompensa ion for the young man on whom the young lady fell, maV. ing a total of £5 17s od\