Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1910 — Will Make Spooning Legal [ARTICLE]

Will Make Spooning Legal

Asbury Park Police to Show Much Toleration and Allow Flirting Within Reason. Asbury Park, N. J. —Oh, joy! “Spooning” is to be permitted at Asbury Park this summer, and flirting is to be tolerated within reasonable limits. This will be good news for the boys and girls who summer at that resort and who have heretofore found the restrictions irksome. Chief of Police Smith has said it. If a man flirts with a woman, the man will not be arrested if the woman reciprocates his advances. Of course the police will Interfere if they find any man forcing his attentions on a girl who does not desire his acquaintance. But the of the peace positively will not interfere if any fair maiden takes the ini. tiative and persists in flirting with a man. Smith figures that the men are able to take care of themselves in such emergencies, and be will take

no action unless called upon by the man who is thus offended, or would you say honored and complimented? The police chief’s statement is tempered with a warning. Girls who flirt are to take all the responsibility to themselves. "Spooning” will not be interfered with if done in dark places away from the public gaze. Smith says there are sufliclent number of corners along the beach to accommodate all the spooners summering at Asbury Park and that “spooners” wil! not be mrtested if they keep out of public gaze and off the board walk. . The police chief says also that he and his men will be more lenient in the matter of bathing suits.