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Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 17 January 1921, Page 1

Some extraordinary bets wore made in the Presidential election in America. To crawl on one’s hands and knees across a bridge and back, to swim across a river regardless of the weather, to promenade in one's wife’s clothes, to stand in a shop window and sing a popular music-hall song a hundred times, to blow a feather half-a mile, to walk through the principal streets, carrying a large placard with the inscription “I am an ass who predicted" a Democratic majority,” to submit to a mock funeral, to sell patent midicines at street corners —such, says a Manchester Guardian correspondent, are some of the “stunts” into which even respectable business men have entrapped " themselves through an unlucky wager on the elec- 1 tiou.