His Time Had Come.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 5 February 1891, Page 3

His Time Had Come.

♦— "Is there a man in all this audience," fiercely exclaimed a female lecturer, " that has ever done anything to lighten the burden re^tr ing on his wife's shoulders ? W&L do you know of woman's work ? •' Is there a man here," she continued, folding her arms, and looking, over her audience with superb scorn, " that has ever got up in the moming, leaving his tired, worn-out wife to enjoy her slumbers, gone quietly . down stairs, made the fire, cooked - his own breakfast, sewed the missing buttons on his children's olothes, darned the family stockings, scoured the pota and kettles, cleaned and filled the. lamps, swept the kitchen, and done all this, - if necessary, day after day- uncomplainingly? If there is auch a man in- this- audience, let him rise up I I should like to see him! And in the rear of the hall a mildlooking man in spectacles, in obedience to the summons, timidly arose He was the husband of the eloquent^ speaker. It was the first iiljg he had ever had a chance to -^W himself. *£>.