“ DRY ” AWAKENING

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1928, Page 5

“ DRY ” AWAKENING

LOST HUSBAND COMEDY. Mrs M., who, with her husband, was doing the rounds of the Parisian entertainments, telephoned early one allternoon to the hall porter of the hotel in which they were staying to inquire whether he had seen her husband that day. The concierge had not, and said so. At 5 o’clock the lady telephoned again. “1 can’t think what has become of him,” she said. ‘‘Telephone to the cafes he usually frequents and ask if he has been seen there.” But neither at Fouquet’s nor at Charley’s, could any news be obtained of Mr M,

By 8 p.m. his wife became seriously uneasy. “You had better notify his disappearance to t-hte police,’ she said to her concierge, and, ordering some champagne to he sent up to her, she prepared to await events, further fortified by the presence of a few friends who bad rallied round her. But the hotel porter is accustomed to disappearing husbands, and refrained from disturbing the police. At 10 p.m. the telephone rang once more. It was Mrs M. again. “ I have found m.v husband,” she cried. “He is here He had, in fact, been found in the bath, where he had spent the day in a profound sleep. Fortunately, there was, as often happens, a slight leak in the apparatus, and, so, when discovered he was lying in a place as dry as Ids native land.