Show T I The Decline of Dueling g w HIS is a hard world and every day someI something some- some I 1 thing happens to destroy another of our cherished beliefs The latest catastrophe of this this kind is in respect to the glamorous old custom of dueling The other day two Hungarian noblemen had a disagreement went out to fight T a a duel with swords They hated one another mother 1 bitterly and they were fine representatives of the old order They should have furnished a magnificent nt example of the duel at its most roman romantic tic But what happened They fought for two hours with swords without hurting one another Then they dropped their swords and went to it with their fists Their seconds managed managed man man- aged aged to separate them and they resumed the I with swords sword until swords at last doctor fight until a examined the pulse of one of the tile duelists anno annoUnced an an- no noun ed that his heart was thumping too rapidly rap rap- idly and called the whole thing off This obviously is all wrong No character character character char- char acter out of Dumas ever fought that kind of rf a duel el Another illusion seems to be gone Lr- Lr ever |