MISCELLANEOUS.
—o — Ho wont out between the acta and returned vigorously chewing a clove. His wife asked him where he had been, ami ho said, * To see a friend.' She calmly replied that she thought hia friend must be dead, as she could smell hia bier. Homo Attractions.—Some one writes both gracefully and forcibly, ‘ I would be glad to see parents understand that when they spend money judiciously to improve and beautify the house, and the grounds about it, they are paying their children a premium to stay at homo as much as possible to enjoy it ; but when they spend money unnecessarily on fine clothing and jewellery for their children, they are paying them a premium to spend their time from home—that is in those places where they can attract the most attention and make the most display.’ A Philadelphia man says that when his wife gets up in the morning with a jerk, and neglecting to do up her hair, goes silently about her work, she is materialising a domestic row which before night will shake the house in its foundation.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 689, 2 July 1875, Page 4
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183MISCELLANEOUS. Dunstan Times, Issue 689, 2 July 1875, Page 4
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