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In OklahoTTUL, You May Not Sit Directly on a Man's Knee
When the Puritans ruled the city of Norman,
in
Okla.homa, they passed a
law forbidding a woman to sit on
a-
man's knee. Citizens overcame the
.
_
difficulty by sitting on a cushion.
THE
States. In_dividual
Stab~s
make others. Some they.-- passed
the State legislators have forgotten to change-them.
In
New
York You Mustn't Open
an
They've made
so
many new laws in New York ' that they've forgotten
to
, remove the old.
So
a cop could arrest you
if
you opened an um/Jrella infront of
.a hQrse. In pre-car days, to open an umbrella might startle the horse.
In Boston, Mass., Your Dog
Must
Measure
10
Inches
At
one time Boston did not allow big dogs to be kept in private houses.
If
yours was higher than
10
inches, you were breaking the law. If anyone took
the trouble
to
measure ·dogs, you might still
be
breaking the law to-day.
U.S.A.
In some countries the railway companies are
so
generous they let years of dust
sit
on the seats free. In Florida, they won't even let 'you brush your coat in
their trains. To be strictly within the law, you must hold it out of the window.
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