1937-07-29 — Page 8

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THE GHINI

THE FIRST KISS

ne to

am bean

ion to tell catch to either

bout my investiga

men

first have probably akes her they are ble gistrar's office first memory

tions on the subject of mating. COMES 5 MONTHS

on gre expecting a

lot of

about Cupid, Wedding AFTER-

moons and Love's Old

Song, you are going to be un

I have been making some

sober rese es, and if some ten years has to elapse.

of the results en to be grim rather than glamorous, I would say. "you"Madam, sex is no laughing

matter.

*

normous number of women questionnaire I sent

type they ranged from a

-tonishing numb me the exact event in thei

Naturally enough the majority of were crackers. first kisses took place in the even-

I think the girls were cheating

church, a period of nearly ing and I was able to deduce that when they answered my question as the greater part of these were of to how many proposals they receiv- theGood Night variety. The ed. One cheerful hussy announced that she had been proposed to "Good Night" variety, of course

A long, long time

To my question,Ho

ok

THE FIRST HELLO!

at about half past nine while the gart

the little brag-

ok you when you were first kissed?" takes place outside the girl's home twenty-nin our-year-old spinster who has the average answer worked out to

old man sits glowering inside nur- The boys must have been kid- never been kissed and signs herself fifteen years and three months-

sing a shot-gun across his knees, ding. I am prepared to admit that "Still Hopeful" to a saucy young five months after their first date.

and demanding to know what young there is a type of girl who does get Slow work, you say? wench who confesses that she was.

duction scale, but I do and the Well, have a heart, we are only girls are coming to, staying out at offers of marriage on a mass pro first kissed at three in the early

dealing with kids youngsters ex- this hour of night

the morning on Brighton beach.

I was surprised that no fewer three serious suitors to one wench Love first comes Softly stealing periencing for the first time

Maybe I'm wrong. to a young girl (this is the average terrific stuff that makes the world than eight out of every hundred a little difficult to believe.

Although I didn't ask whère-pro- case) when she is fourteen years go round. I didn't trouble to ask girls received their first kiss be-

posals occur, I received a lot of -and ten months old--that is the age how long an interval occurred between midnight and 6 am. at which she goes out with her first tween the first kiss and the second. Since their average age was fif- D

kiss because I am almost certain teen years and three months, one miscellaneous information on the boy.

wonders what the devil the little subject. I analysed a hundred Now consider the fact that the the answer is about two seconds.

that most invitations to be married The first kiss is a thing that wo hussies were done out at that time places of proposal and discovered average girl who gets married does

night!

take place m the open air-the

THE

WORLD GOES BY By “ULYSSES ”

I wouldn't have believed that majority of them in the country or people went courting before break- at the seaside. Tfound that people fast, but I have documentary evid go into woods a lot to make and re- ceive marriage offers. For your in- ence that it is done.

One in every hundred girls re- formation, one girl was proposed to ceives her first kiss between 6 am while she was on a bicycle, and an- and midday.

Concerning these other while she was in a swimming lively young sparks, I received bath. twelve letters from females who. No, there's no doubt about it, first received a smack on the lips love is a mighty powerful thing. BEFORE BREAKFAST.

And there you have me!

Of the married women who took part in this international love con-

THE other day at Home, some all the people are on the dole, man- who aged, by selling food and furniture ficers and ex-soldiers were present at the relief of Ma- they could ill spare, to raise enough

I cannot conceive of the circum test, seven out of every ten were feking, celebrated the anniversary of money for Coronation celebrations: it at B dinner

"By these unselfish actions, these stances that lead young ladies to married before they were twenty- have set an in-go flirting at six in the morning. five, and the most common age for I write this standing. I have poor fishfolk

I only present to you the facts getting spliced was twenty-four. not forgotten, though it was before spiring example of patriotism,"

rally enough, the "Daily Those older and wiser than myself The chances of getting married if Only one in every I was born (if you see what I says

in the ways of passion may supply you are over twenty-five are dis

appointing. Mai

you with an explanation. mean, because I don't) how 37 years

hundred girls gets married when ago Democracy trembled in the bal ance against the onslaughts of Boer willitarism.

Kruger-cruel, despotic, and with the a terrible set of whiskers,~ - Wa

his

They were not alone in their un-

By sell

dreaming of world power. It was enough said he even wanted to govern

Civilisation own country. threatened.

Desperately, the gallant litt British army stood at bay an army near one-fift Came the siege of Mafeking. concentrated all his, forces o last blow that should break for ever the power of Christendom, wath which was incorporated Messrs. Eckstein, Beit, Schumacher, Alba and Barney Barnato. "I will darken he the sky with my aeroplanes," said.

From midday to six p.m. love is Clothes their rather becalmed. Only seventh she is twenty-eight Bat it is a all afford of first kisses are registered du slightly consoling fact that two years later their chances of being a Fellows in this office, ing this flat period...

red-6-per

raised But from six p.m. to midnight the bride are rather money to buy flags and thing begins in earnest. The osca cent. of women are wedded when

latory business is in full production they are thirty-

up the

pro

Stalling for settle and 16 per cent direct hits are verune accounts, were with emotion at their in- spiring examples, and bursting into patriotic tears, extended their tick.

corn

And once more the sun rose on a

ted Empire.

Two headings in a Home paper

Blomberg Sees Eden," said endine on Monday.

"Blomberg Sees Army Food," said

En Wednesday.

But aeroplanes weren't invented the same pa then.

Ah, but he didn't know that, he was a very uneducat

Anyway, with the relief

ing the power

broken, and his place

tum by the

Stalin

fours

that 974

per cent. of women have been kiss-t ed by their nineteenth birthday. Those who delay their first amor- ous embrace until after this age are in mortal danger of unkissed until a tombston

paid to their loveless From the point of cords, you may

***Und now I haf seen der army food eden,” said the Field Marshal, the reader who summing up.

(No? All right. Tear it up)

Shopkeeper, Disappears,

nglish paper. This

tric

is very useful,

then the shroff

the veters

UNABLE TO MOVE A LIMB

Kruschen Gave Her Flex Lease of F

long that she was

ment

to buy aken

And this letter

Jong,

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