“WHEN IN ITALY—”
THE KISS OF COURTESY COURT’S WISE DECISION Two years ago, in the iuspiringr month of July, says ‘‘The Observer,” a lady was embraced with sudden fervour by an official at the goods office of a station near Ravenna. The lady asked for her luggage; the too gallant Sicilian gave her a kiss. She complained to her husband, and he administered kicks and blows in plenty; but the lady was not appeased, and brought case up in the Courts of Rimini. There a verdict was given in favour of the defandant on the score that “a kiss given in public between two persons, even if they are of opposite sexes, represents the usual manner of salutation and does not constitute a crime against good behaviour.” Vexed, but still undaunted, the lady appealed to the High Court, and here again Giacomuzzi, her Sicilian admirer, has come off the victor. The verdict is causing much anxious thought among women equally attractive and virtuous with the plaintiff of Rimini.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 306, 17 March 1928, Page 12
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