Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 33 | Maltese Cross is Used in Courting

MALTESE CROSS IS ' USED IN COURTING Formed by the Manner in Which Couples Drape Arms About Each Otner. By FLOYD MAC GRIFF, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. LONDON, Aug. 17. One of the eights of London is the "Maltese cross on the Strand." It doesn't cost anything to see it, and It is a war innovation. The "Maltese coss" is formed by the soldier boy's arm being draped about his girl's waist- while the London girl reciprocates, re-ciprocates, her arm heinjj just as affectionately affec-tionately entwined about her escort. The cross fs the result. As many a.s a hundred hun-dred crosses can be counted in a. single block, especially in the evening-. Nobody has provided a place where Tommy, with time off, can Turn to during such fanciful moments, so he has taJcen the Strand a a trysting place. A street near one of the world-famous hotels leading from the Strand to the Th?.mes embankment has little traffic and it is especially favored as a meetinc place. Oowds pa?s by and none stops to stare. There appeared to he some mistake about one Maltese cros. looked like two cirls, with rather brief skirts, com-iner com-iner along in the twilight. But, no. One was a soldier wearing kilts.