THE LAW AND CUPID.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12482, 8 March 1909, Page 4

THE LAW AND CUPID.

Sometimes the law m a y he invoked (says an exchange) to tlnyart the puipose of the love lorn swam, but sometimes it 'merely^ assists to make the course of true love run the moie smoothly. A case very much m point is solemnly filed away among the iecent records of the Court at Cleveland US. A., and serves to bring the vagaiies of Cupid quite up-to-date. Au excited father had demanded the airest of his daughter. "She is 16, he said "I came downstairs at 11.30 one night and found her sitting on a «l aU '«id W K^o°bS S^^^sSnt^dSf bXe^eyes Iw"*^,^^ her. 1 demand an injunction. Ym ask," replied Judge Adams 'more than the' fcourt can give. To sit on ■a sweetheart's knee a pract.cj .sanctioned by : Uw, , anoie A nt , trad^Cirate modern usage." And so the irate parent was sent empty away.