Show Ducking Stool for Nagging Wives Wives' Still Exists Not Used Nowadays LONDON May 11 United Press PressA A A ducking stool completely equipped for tor Immersing scolds and 1 jagging wives In the River Stour Stout near Canterbury Is one o of the time many relics dies of the time past still slut to be teen seen teeny by y who wander from rom the beaten tourist t tracks hacks The Time stool which hangs by a lL block 1 and amid tackle from a heavy beam prO prO- OV over l' l tho time river at I Is s no longer longe used although h It can still bo ho worked Inside the tIme town townhall mil hall nearby is Js a dressing room wh xe soaking but reformed shrews could change beCo before going homo to tb meant prove pro rove how lion seriously they their heir promises Ducking stools ls were extensively us used d In England from Irom the fifteenth to the time eighteenth centuries and one case cue Is chronicled a as 1809 A t typical entry In an old Kentish Kent Kent- isis ish book of ot records reads Jan 7 7 Paid the time 1636 1636 porters por per tens tel's for ducking Campion 2 shillings 0 o pence But ducking was a mild punishment punishment punish punish- ment even In iii mid January compared com coin pared to ancient method meth meth- od of dealing with sith serious tors A criminal ordered to bo be ex executed executed ex- ex was wal bound and suspended h by the thc feet with his head under wat water r t until he ho ceased struggling Fordwich J Is mentioned In iii the time Doomsday Y book bool as and amid was once the time port of Canter Canterbury ury when time the river er was navigable that far |