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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 July 1891, Page 4

A NARROW ESCAPE. Wipe (who has just returned from the dentist's) : " I shall be awfully stupid, nowi" • • Husband: "Why so, my dear?" ! Wife : "I have had all my wisdom teeth j pulled put." ...... Husband (with the best intentions in the world) : "Ot course)" my love, you know it's nothing but a superstition the idea that wisdom teeth have anything to do with; wisdom. If you were to have every tooth ; in your 'head drawn it couldn't make you any stupider,>you know." . He succeeded in smoothing the matter over] b»t ft was a narrow escape A WRINKLE. Shopman, in ready-made clothing shop to customer : " This overcoat is the best I can do for you. It may be. a trifle loose now, but it will be all right for next winter, and i save buying anew one. These boys grow so." Customer: " Grow ! I hope he wont ; he : 'is" jan; infant pianist, and keeps the whole family.' 1 . . " .' ■■"■ . .. . Shopman (whispering in the ear oleus-. tomer): "Well, I don't mind telling you : this is what we call our ' all-wool accommodation garment.' Send your little boy out in the rain, and it will fit him so that you will have to Use a shoehorn to get him out." AMERICAN JOURNALISM. The editorial business, as carried on in Ohio, seems to be just the kind of life to suit a man, who wants a little exercise and excitement mixed amongst his literary occupation. Two editorial gents in that locality, who have been getting at each other in their papers, indulging in the little ; pleasantries of slander and abuse which make American journalism so . fascinating, have had it out with revolvers in one of the main streets pi Columbus, Ohio. While strolling home from church, these literary gents met, and immediately got to business. One of the editors was severely wounded, the brotherof the other editor was struck by a sfraybullet, while a bystander was shot dea"d; The incident terminated with general explanation's, which appear to have given satisfaction to all parties^-except, perhaps, the bystander, but as this party had not raised any objection he is supposed to partake of the general content. '■.•'■ . THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD. : ■ A soft melancholia encircles her brow, A sort of Idealised Doleful ; '.'■.. Her manners are charming, I freely allow : ! That her lips are exceedingly soulful. Her infinite graces allure aud entice, There are those who consider, her witty, But she told me the poems of Shakspeare were." nice,", And the falls of Niagara " pretty." She dances, as angels in heaven might dance, Were dancing adapted to their case; : Her fortunate partner's delight to enhance / She consepts to sit out on the staircase. Her, beauty was causing my pulse to go quick, , Without any occasion whatever ; 13ut then she informed me that Browning was " chic," And .that - Handel's " Messiah" was "clever. 1 . 1 They say she is "cultured" — paints platters ■and cards,.: . . And there/ore she cannot be stupid ; 6he copies out verses from popular bards, ...About yepus^aud Psyche, aud Cupid. I dote upon culture; I'd fall at her feet, With a lover's infatuate folly; lint ah! she has told me that Wagner is "sweet," And thai Tennyson's "awfully jolly." St. James's Gazette. > THE FESTIVIi COCKROACH. " Everything is in knowing how, you laiow," remarked an observant frequenter ul the city hall. "If everybody knew as j n.uch about cockroa-hes as I do, the vermin [ vould soon becoma extinct. They were -lie pest of my life when I was in the ■jsfcamant business several years ago. There .us nothing that disturbed my peace of iiijd lilso the sijjht of a cockroach walking I jisnrely across the table in plain uew of ny customers. I bought insect powder by i 'l!)L> quart, and tried every means I could ;.itJvis9 or hear- oi to get them out of my , louse, _biU everything was a dismal failure ; ntil, iinally, an accident happened which .avenie the- iuiormation-'for which I bad •een squ uuldin^ money uselessly. "One ninlvt some one happened to leave & •"-ike box— j;ie of those japannad tin affairs : --standinj{ opwi, Nest morning about a pint : uf; coclcroaclses were found in the box. They had Wen able to • climb the outer surlace and get inside, but the interior '. surface was too smooth for them to scale, fnd they were coralled. Well, that put an idea in my head. I went to work next evening and steamed some cake so that the insects could smell it a long distance and ji'iit it in the box. Next morning I bad. about a half neck of. theverrain. I kept the thing going for a week, and captured every cockroach in the house. This is something that a cockroach-ridden people should know about .^.v.;,,.v ' . . ',*.*••■ ' ■ , •;) ; ; THE HARM HIGH HEELS DO. Since the high heel made* its appearance, . medical men have more than once borne , witness to its bad effects. Of late years ■ public opinion has done away with certain of the long-established extravagances fof dress, and has given rise to methods more , agreeable to the symmetrical development of the body. "We hope, that in the process - of reform, the feet, in which too often vanity ; i pays a price' which is dangerously expensive, ;. will •' not escape notice. The evils of the high-heeled boot or shoe are due to the fact that it is an essentially bad-fitting article. It is made in defiance 0$ the relation which it ought to bear to the anatomy of the foot, and to the direction in which the pressure of the body weight falls upon the latter. Hence the peculiarly cramped walk of the ladies of the present day. Anyone may observe the consequence of the " advanced position," nearly under the instep, and the increased height of heel, in the substitution of a forward inclination of the body, and a trip suggestive in a measure of the stumbling gait of the imbecile for the upright carriage and the free and graceful swinging move- : ment natural to the leg in walking, : The boot or shoe, in order that it may not shift on the foot, which has lost much c*f its usual purchase of direct downward '■' pressure, must hold it firmly and even 1 tightly, and in particular it is necessarily Constructed so as to hold with undue firmness ; just above the back of the heel. , . ' With some persons, perhaps, no incoa- , i venience results ; with others, who have • : fine skins, chafing is readily produced. l' This is in itself a trifle, and is presumably altogether too inconsiderable to affect the law of fashion, but it may nevertheless be the slight beginning of grayer troubles. Probably there is no practitioner fairly long acquainted, with town practice who cannot recall a case or cases in which extensive inflammation of the leg with abscess forma tion has followed even such a slight abrasion, and the exciting cause when looked for was discovered in the patient's shoe. There have even been instances, fortunately rate, but still occasional, where abscesses arising round some neglected trifle of this kind (have ended fatally. These are facts which (cannot be denied, and should sot bt everlcjpked. 4