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Show If'" "... . 1 I Some features of the I ' n f lit r "Pty "wave" now on in ( fy What S the Harm of this city reach the ludi- I Little Kiss? crous, as witness the surest t ByJclfCTonEmern.BaItiaore.Mi of an eighteen-yer-old girl j and a sixteen-year-old boy T ' ' in Gwynns Falls park for j -spooning. Witness, also, the good sense of a Baltimore magistrate in j, dismissing the youthful couple with the pronouncement that spooning I is not indecent. .. The serious feature, however, in this incident is the J arrest, the ride in a patrol -wagon and the hearing in a police court of i this youthful couple for what? For that which is- ages old and which j will continue for age& simply spooning, which is. the slang name for ; xurting. N ' Courting that which the gods smile upon, wliMi is as natural to i a boy and a, girl as is the -budding of the trees, which is as natural as J the cooing of. the birds, and which is predestined by nature to be prelimi-I prelimi-I nary' to the popping of the eternal question which makes happiness hold 1 sway over this broad land. This age is prosaic and commercialized enough ' without miaions of the law stepping in and laying hands on those who ' recall to us all our youthful lovers' spoon. As the magistrate has wisely decided, there is nothing indecent in holding hands and even in. a . stolen kiss. . ' ' |