Bites Wife's Cheek as Finish of Kiss

1920

Pulling Cave Man Stuff Lands Hubby in Workhouse

NEW YORK, N. Y. -- Cave man methods of kissing one's wife is no way for a modern husband to show conjugal affection, according to Magistrate Douras of the Essex Market Court. Saderio Anselino, 45, wa arrested on a warrant issued on the complaint of his wife, Nellie, who charged that Saderio had bitten a piece out of her cheek.

"What do you mean by biting your wife's cheek?" demanded Magistrate Douras of the defendant. "Do you think you are a cave man?"

"I love my wife," the defendant said, "and was only trying to kiss her."

"Thirty days in the workhouse," answered the magistrate.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 9.