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Show KISSED WIFE ON STREET OF MADRID: ARRESTED MADBlD. Aug. 27 (Correspond ence.) A severe reprimand and u warning not to let the misdemeanor ' occur ngnn has 'nvt been administered! 1 1 0 visitor to Madrid who. when he assisted his wife into a cab at ihe door' of his hotel on the Puerto del Sol. kissed bet KOOd-by A policeman on duly close by w i' -nested tho offense and i eoionsti a i cl thceatening to take the man to the j. liie s.atlon, whiienpoil the visitor traveler In many lands smiled and s id. "Do your worst- Take me to the BUttlon house and we'll sr-e what tin punishment Is for kissing one's wife " The policeman led him iff to fac his captain, who. on hearing the na ture of the charge, was even moie si vers than the ordinary policeman He Informed the offender that Ignorance Of the law was no excuse, but that hi had committed a serious offense! 'igalnst the laws of .Madrid, which, for-, bid a man to kiss any woman while. In the streets of the city , with or with- : out her consent. He, however, let him off with a caution La LJbertad. commenting on ihe af-1 fall s,.vs the worst kind of proptl tution and llbertinage arc permitted j under the very noses of the police of j Madrid without any effort to atop j them, but a respectable mxn may be I dragged through the streets to a po-lce po-lce station for kissing his wife." |