EXPENSIVE KISSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13193, 2 June 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXPENSIVE KISSES.

A PARIS TRADESMAN SHOWS HIS GRATITUDE THE WRONG WAY. Thkre is nothing like having a lot of pretty girls, with fine figures, about one wheir one keeps a dressmaking establishment. They brighten up the place, and set off the u.rvav of costumes so well. So, at least, argued a, certain Paris couturier, and he carried out his programme very successfully, and to his entire satisfaction, as beauty 'in the form of a score of comely damsels adorned his -furnished salons and his spacious workshop. Delighted with the brilliant effect thus produced he soon took to evincing his gratitude to the fair creatures by embracing each of them, not once, but several times, a day, and this, with the accompaniment- of divers endearing expressions and epithets. ' But the couturier's exuberant tributes of admiration were not accepted by the younrj women in the spirit in which, as is to be hoped, they were offered. On the contrary, the girls resented these affectionate demonstrations from their employer, and one fine day they lodged a formal complaint with the officials, the result being that, after an investigation into this queer matter by a labour inspector, the tradesman was summoned to appear at a police court. The twenty pretty creatures gave their evidence, and the Public Prosecutor delivered an address, in which he displayed anything but appreciation of the couturier's methods of showing goodwill to the girls employed by him. He took, indeed, a decidedly serious view of the case, and the couturier has been condemned to 1 lie payment of ten fines each of 15 francs for his enterprising experiments in. the kissing line.