Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Manawatu Herald, 9 April 1898, Page 4

THOSE DIAMONDS. ttva. JLatablua Didn't Const on Such Bad Luck. Young Mrs. Lambkin was delighted to see her dear Mario when sho called. Indeed sho a?-- -sural her of tho fact herself. "I was beginning to fear lest you were unablo to conio, as you expected," she remarked. "It was growing so late." "Oh, I was determined to come. You Fee, it; will be my last chanco boforo I go, and California is so far away that I may not bo back in Chicago for untold ages." " Yos, indeed, you poor exilo. But never mind. Your husband may mako enough money to enable you to live in Chicago somo day." "No doubt. But of course I should not be satisfied unless I had my own horno — though really your littlo flat sooms very nico, and no doubt you are quite contented inifc." "Oh, yesl One could bo contented anywhero with Alexius. You have no idea how happy we aro. " "Indeed I always quite liked him in the days when he spent most of his time at our house." " Yes, I remember. It was immediately across from my home. Ho could keep watch on all my movements from your windows." "Very likely. I remember that you were generally at one of the front windows. Do you find this a pleasant neighborhood?" "Quito so. I'm always afraid of burglars, and now I shall bo more so than ever." "I should bo awfully afraid myself. But, then, I received such handsome wedding presents" — "Speaking of presents," Interrupted Mrs. Lambkin as she drew out a case and opened it, "today is my birthday, and see what a lovely gift my husband brought me." ' ' Diamonds I gasped Marie. ' ' How lovely! But — bat aren't you afraid ho will ruin himself giving you such expensive things? I shouldn't think of allowing my husband to do it." "But, thon, dear Alexius is such a good . business man. He can quite afford it." "Who would havo thought it in the days when ho used to come to see" — "I was surprised when he gave it to me. I hadn't tho least idea — why, here comes Alexius himself. Whatever has brought him homo so early today? Just give me that case, will you, dear? Ho — he always hates display." "Oh, bother! What if ho does? I haven't half looked at it. Do you quite like tho setting? Why, Mr. Lambkin, how do you do? lam just admiring dear Endora's lovely diamonds." "Endora Lambkin, wherever did you get those things?" queried her husband, oblivious of the signs she was making to him. And just then the door opened once more, and the head of the hired girl appeared. "If yon please, Mrs. Lambkin," she remarked, "the young man from Stone & Silver's is here to ask about them there diamonds they sent on approval." In the slight pause which followed dear Marie arose, smiling, and said that she really must go._ ' " J ■■=■ "~" ** A Puzzling Question. "Yonder she comes," said a tall, lank man who was sitting on a trunk near the railroad station. * "Yonder who comes?" asked a fat, heavy man who sat near him. ' ' The train, ' ' replied tho lank man. * "Why do you say, ' Yonder she comes?' " asked the fat man. "Well, that's tho customary way of speaking of a train, isn't it? And custom is what fixes things. Everybody says, 'Yonder she comes,' in speaking of a train's approach." "Well, I' insist you should have said, 'Yonder ho comes.' " "Oh, pshaw I Nobody ever says 'he' in speaking of a train," returned the lean man. "Well, I'll agree to leave it to tho station agent and see if it wouldn't have been better for you to havo said, 'Yonder he comes, ' " added the fat man. Both agreed to it, and when they had found the agent the fat man asked: "What is the train just coming into the Btation?" "It's a mail train, " he answered. Then the lean man went out andjxnigbi a good oigar for the fat man. """* ~ An Incentive. "And I only married to reform 70a!" "Yesh, but of cursh a mandrinksb,more If he marries suoh a fool as that."* ~*~~ And There Are None Ther*£ In the large display window of one of the leading drug stores of Alexandria, Va,, is displayed a large sign covering one end of the window, with the inscription, "A few good substantial loafers wanted to fitand in front of this window." ~ ja * •»■•«—-» A Free Booter. She (haughtily) — Did I hear you call my father a pirate? He (rubbing his eoattall) — I merely gaid^thatho was a freebooter. ""* ""^— •* Tying Her Shoe* She stood by a door that was festooned with flowers, While the sound of the waits floated lastly through, And yonng bloods of fashion and maids with fat dowers Stood watching ns while I was tying her shoe. She wore a red stocking, soft, delicate silk; Her ankle just turned to perfection— yea, two, And the edge of her petticoat, whiter titan milk, I saw, and I trembled— when tying her shoe. Ah, me, for tbe days of yonng love and young life, For the days when my cares were both trifling and few I Just seven long years I've been calling her "wife," And now think It a bore— when I'm tying