Some Queer Laws

You must not reach Paris traveling
in a cart drawn by dogs or bullocks.
You would break the law. Neither
may you take there a caravan of ele-
phants or camels, according to a series
of decrees issued by the city council.

There are other decrees you are
much more likely to break. For in-
stance, you must not cross a road
junction diagonally. Your wife should
not board a bus wearing a hatpin un-
fess its point is well protected.

Should you decide to give Paris the
go-by and visit another part of the
world, Indiana, U.S.A., remember
that if you eat garlic there, you are
not permitted to ride in a public ve-
hicle within the next four hours!

If you fancy Kentucky, note that no
woman there may appear in a swim

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suit unless she is escorted or armed
with a club.

Queer laws? Perhaps they are! But
there are some equally strange ones
in England. The statute book is full
of them. They have never been re-
pealed; so legally speaking, you can
be fined or imprisoned for breaking
them.

According to a law of 1745, you
can be fined five shillings if you swear.
That is, if you are a gentleman! A
middle-class curse costs half-a-crown,
while a labourer’s is worth one-and-
six-pence. But if the police put you in
the wrong social class you can claim
compensation for the injustice.

Since 1778 it has been illegal to put
a coin in penny-in-the-slot machines.

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This applies to weighing machines.
You must not play cards on Sundays,
mend a puncture by the roadside, or
leave a vehicle on the road unat-
tended. :

You must not sell, buy, or even
read a newspaper on Sundays. For
the last 270 years this has been a crime
punishable by a prison sentence.

In some counties you may not walk
more than three miles on Sundays; in
others the limit is five miles, the aver.
age distance to the nearest church ip
olden days.

In Somerset you must wear differ-
ent clothes on the Sabbath Day. Dur-
ham demands wooden shoes, though
you may wear leather ones on week
days.

Anywhere in England, a comedian
with a moustache may recite on Sun-
days, but one with a false moustache
may not.

You must not pick nuts from a
Kentish hedge on Wednesdays, or dig
potatoes in Essex with anything but
a wooden fork.

Have you ever told a friend’s for-
tune with cards, or over the teacups?
Have you ever used a radio loud-
speaker or pushed a pram along the
pavement?

If so, you have broken the law.

And you could be given a two-
week’s prison sentence for cutting a
hedge that borders"a public highway.
Every time you overhear a conversa-
tion in a bus, or queue or in the street
you break the law according to the
Eavesdropping Act of 1364.

We talk of red tape—but if these
laws were strictly enforced . . . |—
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