Lawrenceburg Palladium, April 1827
From the Bloomington Gazette
Sparking -- At the March term of the Monroe circuit court at Bloomington (IN), a gentleman was fined $15 and a lady sentenced to 25 days imprisonment for BUNDLING three times.
It is to be hoped that this decision will put a stop to this indecent manner of sparking, so common amongst the youngsters of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Carolina.
Query, why should the male be fined $15 only and a female [the weaker vessel] thrust within the four walls of a loathsome jai, there to be imprisoned for 25 days?
Note: Bundling was an old-time technique used by pioneer families to keep small children warm on long winter nights. Children would be wrapped together in bed, the boys separated from the girls by a wooden plank. The practice was supposed to end around puberty. Evidently, some folks had other ideas on it. The Amish were fond of the bundling board.
As "contraception," it was an amazing concept.
Bloomington was not much of a place in 1827.
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