Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1916 — Park Love Fashions in New York Quite Unchanged [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Park Love Fashions in New York Quite Unchanged

jIjEW YORK—There’s absolutely no change in love fashions, says the vetiN eran policeman on the Central Park beat, near the entrance at One Hundredth street. “I’m patrolling a section of park where I played as a boy,

he says. “I’ve watched the spooners from before I spooned myself up to now and I’ve never seen any change in love-making styles. The language of the day may change and the fashions in clothes may change, but not the antics of the smitten. “They sit the same as they did 40 years ago and they hold their arms all cramped tip for hours—same as they used. They look at each other’s eyes like the monkeys you see in the Zoo —just looking, sometimes half an

hour at a time, with not a word. “Do I bother them? Not on your life. 11l go out of my way not to bother them. I think there’s something wrong when a chap doosn’t want to spoonnow andthen. Onlyonce • wtrs I roiled—but even that passed away quickly. I came on my own boy spooning with a pretty little girl. What made me sore was that I coughed anti'blew my nose so as.to tip them. They were slow, so I roared out: ‘Kelly, come over here!’ “The'boy recognized inv voice and jumped with the girl, they tried to beat it but I told them to wait. They did and I told him I’d thrash him when I got home, and I told the girl I’d a good notion to spank her then and there “’‘No you won’t,’ said my boy. And then he walked off with his girl just as if he were my father and I was the son.” ,