MAD GIRLS WOOING.
The .evils of sensational literature, which are not confined to England, have led to an unexampled tragedy on the Sea of Azov. Irina Samurin, pestered by her rival lovers, had been reading a popular romance in. which a girl in her situation disembarrassed herself of undesired attentions by flinging an importunate "uitor out of a balloon. To solve her problem the distraught Irina devised a still more original method. Inviting her lovers, who were ignorant of the locality, to take a walk on the sands of the Limari, she proposed that they sh»uld run a race arouricl a rock about a mile distant, promising that whichever returned first should have her favour. The youths started. One stumbled and fell, and the other gained a long lead. When the former rose he saw \m competitor up to the knees, and struggling in what was apparently a quicksand. The unfortunate man sank lower and lower while his rival, whether from cowardice or jealousy, watched him slowly sucked underneath by the remorseless sand. When he returned he found Irina clapping her hands and laughing hysterically. She admitted that she had set a trap for both her suitors, "loving them equally." The girl is now in an asylum.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12663, 17 September 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)
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