Clippings from the Comics

Manawatu Herald, 26 March 1892, Page 3

Clippings from the Comics

(From Moonshine.)

The Unintentional. — The Minister's wife (to industrial scholar) :

" Eliza Jane, I'm sorry to hear from your school-mistress you are not diligent at your needlework. You know who it is finds work for idle hands to do ?" Eliza Jane (intensly anxious to propitiate) : " Yes, 'm ; please, 'm, you do !"

It is said that the study of agriculture is now becoming part of an American girl's education. No doubt the knowlege of how to " husband " land is goocVbut (for young ladies) the way how to " land " husbands is better.

The Women's Suffrage people are promoting a great meeting of ladies in Hyde Park. Gentlemen are invited, one is pleased to learn. They will be handy should some enemy try to break up the gathering by letting loose a mouse among the assembled fair. (From Judy) What is the difference between a boy and a very pretty bonnet? — One becomes a man and the other becomes a woman. Cynical Celibate : Bah, man ! don't extol a woman to me; It was all through a woman that man was turned out of Paradise. If woman hadn't come in, man needn't have gone out. — Prospective Benedict : Ah ! but, my dear boy, it wouldn't have really been Paradise for him if he'd been left behind without her. A Strange Peck-uliary — Birds of all kinds are extremely voracious : they take several pecks at every meal. (From Fun.) He can cure her so— Di* Paine : What's the matter with that rich widow you attend? — Dr Cumfert: Nothing at all ; simply fancy. So I prescribe liqueurs, and always curacoa.

Nothing Like a Change. — She : since my return from the South of France I'm another woman." Sarcastic Friend : How delighted your, husband must be.

Amenities of Adiposity— Maud (fon,d wifey) : Yes, we had a jolly Christmas. We went down home. — Young Sparkson : Did they kill the fatted calf. — Maud : Pretty nearly, but he's getting over it now.