YOUNG LADIES AT A PREMIUM.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2308, 29 September 1870, Page 2

YOUNG LADIES AT A PREMIUM.

“.Eglcs,” who has gone over to the Aits* (ralaAan, has the following humorous re« marks on a recent event, in a late issue of that paper Arojm oi the distribution of those 4,000 cards for the hall amongst some 50,000 willing recipients, there is a story current on ’Change. A merchant of Flinders lane, of uuirnpc-aclnhle reputation (lie lias been known to carry round the plate in church, drives h;i carriage, and bears about him other indisputable marks of respectability), received invitations for himself and his wife. Mrs was ill, and could not accept, and as a young lady from Hobart Town was on a vi-it to them, it was proposed that there should be a transfer of the entree to the fair 'Tasmanian. (Parenthetically I may say that the presence of pretty and agreeable Tasina* Ilians, in a certain circle in Melbourne, is its normal and agreeable condition.) To accomplish the required changes in the invitation, Mr called at the oliice of Mr Fitzgibbon, the town clerk, who was, of course, safely bestowed inside a locked door, and invisible beyond a mountain of pasteboard. Whilst patiently waiting an audience, thg Mayor emerged from the to\yp clerk’s room, and Mp , not being familiar with Mr A mess’s personal appearance, inquired if Mr F. would soon be disengaged. The Mayor : Very busy, indeed, sir ; hasn’t a moment tq spare. What is it you want ? Mr I The fact is, I want him to introduce me to the Mayor. I have received an invitation to the ball for myself and my wife. My Avife is ill, and I Avant to take a young lady instead, Avho— The Mayor (interrupting) ; Why, your’c the thirty-second married man Avho has made a similar application during the last twenty-four hours ! You all Avant your wives’ tickets changed for tickets for young ladies. Take your wives, gentlemen, take your Avivc-s ! Need I sny that Mr , who Avas unprepared for this awful impliestion, beat a precipitate retreat, hastily fob lowed by an honorable and gallant member of the b pper House, an ho had been Availing to prefer a similar request.