Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1887 — Penalties of Kissing. [ARTICLE]

Penalties of Kissing.

In Iceland kissing has incurred penalties of great severity. For kissing another man’s wife, with or without her consent, the punishment of exclusion or its pecuniary equivalent was awarded. A man rendered himself liable for kissing an unmarried woman under legal guardianship without her consent; the law required that every kiss should be wiped out by a fine of three marks—equivalent to 140 ells of wadmal —sufficient to furnish a whole ship’s crew with pilot jackets. A clergymen’s meeting has been held in Helmsworth in favor of early interment in plain earth, in the simplest possible coffin, instead of falsely so-called burial in vaults and crowded graves, simplicity and economy in place of ostentatious display, Christian simplicity instead of pagan, and due reverence at the burial of the very poor.

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