WELL TRAINED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 480, 13 April 1909, Page 3

WELL TRAINED.

Men who aie martinets abroad are often docile and biddable enough creatures at home (writes "Marcia" in the . "Australasian"). \Vhilst: their clerks cringe and their officeboys, quail before them, their. wives find them easily tractable, and- can wind them round their little fingers. In their own homos, as Gouriet says in "Havana," "they will como and eat out of your hand." Remember the amusing picture by the "Daily Mirror": cartoonist of the man who made ail his minions tremble with fear at his frown in the,, office,- but, seated at the evening meal before his "better half," cowered mis■erably in his chair while she sternly shouted; "Am I'master in my own house or not?" ;An Adelaide, clerk, nervously approached his chief i at his private house in North Adelaide for, light en some question of .importance the other evening. Eeforo the dictatorial, masterful boss,"he stood quaking inwardly. Suddenly a child, all in white muslin and blue ribbons,, burst into the room. "Dad," she said, with'an impentivo air (possibly- inherited), "Ethel lias just rung up .-. to say she's at Glenelg, andiefuses to come home by train: You've got.to , go down a't'once for her-«■ .the. motor, she says.'!. . The'clerk gasedfrom tho-:chief's daughter-:-to. the chief, ; wondering what terrible explosion would follow this, curt communication . He wished himself well out of it. In mild, sweet tones, to the> clerk quite unrecognisable, "Please say I'm coming, darling," was all■ the boss said. ■■■-."