HOT STUFF !

NZ Truth, Issue 81, 5 January 1907, Page 6

HOT STUFF !

Lydies and Langwidge.

When women Rive tongue to . dirty (language • they can knock men into a cocked head ornament. They aren't afraid to use it either when, their ire is roused', and then people hear somedings. The profusion, of their atijec- ' stives on occasion would make renowned crimson talkers stare, and the .wonder is where they pick 1 them up: Quite a large number of indecent language cases m which women figured^ have been "heard at Chxistchurch ' lately, but luck usually attends their sex, who. will swear anything. And m any case they are never gabled as men are for this . DETESTABLE AND MOST LOATHSOME CRIME. Why, it is difficult t 0 know. It is far worse, or .it- gets on the nerves. .mpre, to hear a female' pour out a torrent of indecency than a man ■; and he's a damnable brute aft any time. „ However, a case was dismissed at Christchurch t'other day just "because the language complainted of wasn't vised m the -hearing of passers-by. There may be tons of awful language used and heard "by neighbors -yet -they . have to tolerate it unless someone happens to pass by and his or her attention is drawn to it. Mrs Amelia Cook, who lives m Richmondrrdad, must have been locked out by her old man on a recent night (because she was heard- to BANG AT THE BOOR AND : CURSE <so it is alleged) for a long time. vjStill she remained on step. At length Thomas Williams, a laborer, rose from his downy couch, opened his . front-door, and besought 'the woman to stop her infernal row. But there, ■was no stop, and it went on. for bouts. The woman couldn't get ad^ mittance, and was using language of rthis sort ;- "Open the door, you. b . , >You bastard, I will jump, on your' ibr— coffin," and other endearments presumably addressed <to her darling spouse who was snugly ensconsed be- ! neafch the bedclothes on tlie marital ] couch while she was doing a perish j outside. The magistrate wanted to , loiow if any passeirs-by had heard the . lady's

iFLOW OF MUDDY ELOQUENCE, and Sergt, Norwood answered m the negative ; but the neighbors had— ,very much so, indeed. Then Day pointed out that it that was so he couldn't ' convict •; passers-by must 'hear it, according to the wording of fthe section. Under that section noisy neighbors could let their tongues •loose. "And am I going to have these people alwaya waking me up at Inieht ?" queried the ■witness: The reT v from the bench was 'that there were other means of stopping the nuisance. He didn't encourage -the use of bad language, but: he must dismiss the presfiit Information. So. Amelia, a Rrey■haired woman, who evidently doesn't -co- -to .bed at seven o'clock, left the court grinning m two places at once.

Another indecent language case that was dismissed was that preferred against Martha Gray. Martha lives m [the unaristocratic part of the city known as Duke-street, where dukes dwell not, noc earls, nor other highclass lumber. It appears that one George Edward Lloyd, who is. somewhat swarthy of skin, called at the house of Gray with a parcel arid walked, up the street with an old codger named Patterson. Mrs G. "can't abide " Lloyd, and on his return is al-l.-nied to have/ called him a ""b lilack b and a b loafec," and .sundries. Lloyd

POLICE COURTED MARTHA" nml called old Patterson as a witness. Latter produced a slip of paper on which the 'language, was written. "Head it out." said Station Sergt. Norwood. "Can't— left my specs at home." "Well, leJl the court what it -was." But the old gee'-ser was fchle to revnt'inber only one ofc.iectionaWe word., and was a sorty witness for tbe police. When L!ovd hdmself vc&s m the box the defendant asked /iim some very .personal- que^fcious .toout a cov^le of eirls he was ac(fUftintod with) "but the tnpflt saifi,tbev

had nothing to do with the case. From the tenor of the queries, however, it is evident that there's something of the spice of life about Dukestreet. The defendant said she was m bed at the time the indecent language was used ; the charge had been trumped un against her. The woman's husband" corroborated, and the beak dismissed.