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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 417, 12 May 1871, Page 2

ToYotog Wmß.-Do not imagine a. t because you hare obtained ft hulK £*5 your attention to personal neatne ßß and 5S portment may be relaxed: Now, in re£ity ?" the time for you to exhibit superior t3» excellence in the cultivation of your addrtL and the becoming elegance of your appeit £ If it required some little care to foster tt admiration of a lover, how much more is « quißite to keep yourself lovely in the ey" B 5 him to whom there is no privacy or disguis-^ your hourly companion ? And if it 4H^ to your lover that you should a W. plenJ to him, who proposed to wed and cX? a neat and ladylike aspect j how mS more' is he entitled to a similar o??™** fi^-f haß £?•' his Promiw »ith honoufabi; fidelity, and linked all his hopes of future han! piness with yours ? If y ou can manage thm makers without appearing to study them !J much the better. Some husband*, arH" patient of the routine of the toilette, and not unreasonably so-they possess active and energefcio spirits, sorely disturbed by any waste of time. Some wives have discovered an admirable facility in dealing with this difficulty and it is a secret well worth the finding out. An American paper publishes the following " obituary gem:"— „ ■ Grim death has taken darling little Jerry. The son of Joseph and Syrena Howels, Seven days he wrestled with the dysentery And then he perished with his little bowels. Most likely it was weaning injured little Jerrr His bottle seemed to injure his stomach's toneBut with the angels he'll get plump and merry '< - For there's no nursing-bottles where he's gone. Punch has a song about the birth of the Hippopotamus, with a wonderful Cradle Chorus:— ~ / „. "-,,.' A pooty ittle tiddy ittle funny little-lotamus ';'.'■■ Such a little ducky ob a darling hippopotamus- ' ■' ' 'Dis mamma an' babj, wot a lubly little lot am us! Hip hxp hip hooray! for4e litt'e hippopotamus.' . ' ■~; The death of the young hopeful is given in a P.S., under date February 25 :— De nigger which hab wrote out de above amazin' lyrio Hab suddenly been took and throw*d in wiolent hrw teric: .•■ De picanniny 'potamus hab since absquatulated— Dis note (not like Sir Bobinson) must darefore be posU dated. ■ ■ .. Why is a solar eclipse like a mother thrashing Tier own child ?—Because it's a,hiding of ' the sun. When does a besieged city most resemble a pea?— When it is being shelled, A boy who undertook to ride- a horse-radish is now practising on a saddle of mutton. '