out of her collar so „3 to look still ' s "*d tho short, -tout lady; find stoutness aro "-sgarded by ■be fashion i^+o mahevs rs defr-u-itics, you havo to po and /jet some Bpecial to v.-* rle-it ii; to ci c.sign your clothes vronld r-o to a specialist if had a rhib foot -.nd get him to make boot i.-iv you." ; ; a, do y OU Buppose?" Ethel ted, v.'':l -r^-c'it, wonder.' ng eyes. Vl do ]!oi; ]:i-o\v.*' said tho short, stoiit a- 3 t!i - v -A.nnv; ber foat back and Jil-:o a baby in *. high chair. "There Hgfj-wr.ly enough of U3, and somo of us ■Requite refined. You know it is not B believed that stout women are ■^tsied, -^ man m *y net so stout that tho j. residential chair isn't big fov h. ? - ai » an<: * y e * c "will not any m^%" gQ ' bnt lefc a lad * y about SOta 4." be SV n . to wei S' h well HKhun the slot iv lcl ! mes ' ant } thGn crowd lo.* u P° n heras on a man who n . des ° n , one and carries ah_" ye of bu^ HBPHTa bim in the same seat, „ or^ P utß Hiehivo there, at least, and lets tn-^ bees Belect their own seats. ■ "Yes, that is co." said Ethel, "but Bjhcso who know j*ou love you if you ■Re stout. That's moro than some can Bay whom I Iniow of." B?"I hope so," said tho short, Btou* lady, Hpth a tear in her eye as 6ho tzied'.to get B overshoo on by lricldng i_,agamst Bbc other foot, but only succeeded, in hiring a whalebone or two ancl4tipBpg her hat down over her nose. Bjj'Thero ought to ho some recompeniie. H^"e aro ashamed to ask for clothing o£ 6J50, and nobody ever attempted to WL^m anything for us especially, for . ildn't wear it anyway, no matter jcoming it was, if it had got to be ,yif orm of the fat women of tho ttni1 and so there you are." . ?n they both had to get off the train jf, and Ethel had to borrow a tray--82. man's samplo case for the short, lady to step ou as sho got oil the ive not been richly endowed by na--vith the fatal gift of beauty, but it WmJ -i hftv® heen worse than it is, though j Pjien I pass through a car and afterward BjOok back and see the passengers exam- , ■ ming their watches to see if they aro j ■Btill running I can think of the short, lady and say, What if I, too, had B&f en thus? B Written in a childish hand comes a Bequest from little Alonzo Belcher of Hsast Rawlse's Center asking this paper Bow he can cure soreness of the toijgue. BUonzo. it seems, during the cold weather Eras acting as understudy for the property Bpan at East Rawlse's Center, and ono of Bhe other stage hands, a bright young farmer, got Alonzo to accept that he (Alonzo) could not erase his tongue the name of Pistache the rising young Swedish nightand child wonder, which she (Miss had written in bluo chalk on the pipe of her dressing room while at Grand Opera House of East Rawlse's accepted tho wager and now to ask about what he shall do. |^B>o has a large, copious tongue, 1 almost encircled the gas pipe, and \ea of it may still be seen there. me night he and the opera house the same apartments. The nest jogged along together till about the other stage hands told and stops were taken to it so that the opi-ra hous9 and Belcher could be used separately. see, you dare not cut out a piece that way for fear of asphyrriathey could not cut it oft at the seems, as the company had ayit so that gas would be "con*****^"v'y evening, whether the" houso or not, and they did not see Id change 3ioni, hov.-evcr, was ap--rfhgue, and soon the little removed frpn} the real esm M. *^nd again became his own personal : went home, he exclaims in the letlike a man that has a redhot bone in his mouth and cannot get Ever since then he has comv/ith the outside world wholcans of the pen. No one can nk of his great sorrow without and somewhat brackish tear. v puny are our efforts when we Arselves in the act of violating a law! We must not get on turntable of creation or try the side tracks of solar systems we are employees. Belcher will do well to bathe the place with witch hazel as often as occurs to him, and keep a piece between the tongue and roof mouth, so that the two shall not and become one grand whole, to injury of the grand hole that he haa in the habit of swallowing through. YOUNG BELCHER'S MISTAKE. Some put the tongue in the sling— « ■■in, -sling, perhaps — under those circum■lances, but the gin does not assist the ■' {ealing process, and it induces the ■ jjngue to wag too freely. One of tho I -patest wags I ever knew was a gin . I jing wag. But why introduce pauper I iftde, imported jokes at such a time? [ / _tfr. Belcher (which, by the way, is Bim- [ (Tg be concluded).
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Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1896, Page 4
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880Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1896, Page 4
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