DEADLY FRIVOLITY.
. Protest is .made by Mr., Andrewi Lang against.the' too.,prominent part the reVolver .'plays'. , in ; -sensational fiction. "ltea'Uy," he,, writes, ."tho:..weapon- is. not frequently"-used. by the middleand 'tipper classes in everyday life. It is not universally carried, as the sword used toi be : among, gentlenien. -It seems that girls, in. the V seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, had a simple and unfailing source 'of .pleasant excitement. It was to provoke one- man: sportively to seize a ribbon, glove, or even snuffbox of theirs, and ask another. man to restore it to them. Lord Herbert of Cherbury had two "affairs" thus induced by lovely nymphs. About 1753 a girl played the same game in. London, and provoked a duel in which one man was rnn through the heart,, while the other had to fly the country and take service with Frederick the Great in the Seven years , ' . War." ■■~'' ....'.. •. .-
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 799, 23 April 1910, Page 11
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147DEADLY FRIVOLITY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 799, 23 April 1910, Page 11
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