“A REVOLTING DAUGHTER"

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11493, 21 November 1931, Page 11

“A REVOLTING DAUGHTER"

FATHER TREATS HER ‘'ROUGH” BUT GETS HIMSELF INTO TROUBLE. LONDON- October I‘2._ There may be a moral concealed in this story. If so it is hard to .discover. It. is a tale of a daughter who .revolted against paternal }>qw. t3, \, with unforeseen results tor hitper and daughter. ; . A rich peasant in Serbia had betrothed his daughter/to a than. whom lie had chosen, as - was, the custom of tlie euuntr.V. A fine collection pt household goods atid garment, most of them the work of her own hands, had been prepared by the daughter as part of her. dowry, But a low days . before the marriage ' was to have taken place she disappbarec and secretly married an old lover, joining him in liis parents-’ honse. On learning this, the irate,lather summoned a. large gipsy hand, loaded tip all the gifts oii a cart, and led tlie. procession off 1 tlirough' ’ the village. with the. band still playing at full blast. The crowd came to a standstill outside the girl’s rimy home,, and there, to the sound of g a y music and the Special ' songs sung only at weddings', the father soaked all tho gifts in .petrol and piled them into a, huge-bonfire. The girl’s efforts,.to rescue ..her treasures from the flames were ’ unavailing.; .and stio had onlv .the TlpUbtful shtisUTctioiv of seeing her father arrested for creating,a disturbance.