Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1913 — GIRL MAY SIT ON HIS LAP. [ARTICLE]

GIRL MAY SIT ON HIS LAP.

Also She Can Kiss Her Sweetheart Good Night Oesplte Papa. Cleveland, Ohio. —A girl may sit on her sweetheart’s lap in perfect security from interference from the law, according to Judge Addams, of the Juvenile Court He refused the plea of an ira x e parent, the father leaving the court room too speedily for the Court to learn the names of the principals in the comedy. The girl’s father came into court demanding the arrest of his daughter, that the Court might reform her courting by awing her. “She is sixteen,*’ he said. *T came down stairs at half-past eleven at night and found her sitting on a young man’s knees, her arms around his neck. I told her to go to bed at once and ordered the young man away. ' She kissed him good night right before my eyes. I want you to awe her.” “There is no law by which I can interfere,” said the judge. “No court sitting on her sweetheart's knees.”