Show A COSTLY proceeding the penalty of Ai aikler klar for bigo in brit kb the police court reports in the london papers sometimes quote the price of a kiss which usually ranges from aalf a crown to half according to the temperament of the how ridiculously cheap this is says a writer in london truth will be seen from the following account of the cost of merely for a kiss which has been sent to me from india probably you will hardly credit the story but it is quite true and though the names are withheld lay the aldaha bad paper which gives the facts ahe parties are well known an officer of the madras medical service was holdin one of the most desirable civil surgeon cies in the province and there he received a visit from a civilian and his wife while driving with the lady in a dogcart dog cart the doctor asked her for a kiss it was very especially as there was a native servant sitting behind the couple and he met with the tern repulse which his impudence and imprudence invited this exemplary woman afterward wrote to the doctor that she had told her husband of his conduct the doctor then wrote an abject apology which the husband submitted to the madras government without being allowed to say a word on his own behalf the doctor was forthwith officially advised to resign the service to avoid dismissal since then the madras government has been induced to modify its decision the offender is graciously permitted to servo the further nine months necessary to qualify him for the lowest scale of pension but he has been transferred from his civil back to military service and packed off to a remote station in upper burmah |