Show Uses Sea Water Faces Fine Boulogne A woman who took two buckets of water from tho sea to bathe her child in accordance wjth tho doctors orders was astonished to receive an official warning from the customs officers threatening to fine hor for breach of tho law There has been discovered an unrepealed law of Louis XIV forbidding the taking of sea water lest those taking it extract the salt and thus defraud the government govern-ment of the salt tax The woman has written a declaration of the purpose for which the water was obtained In order to secure an official permit to use sea water |