DECIDEDLY EMBARRASSING.
A man and his wife went to a din - neP dance. They arrived so late that the dressing rooms were empty. The wife noticed a rip in the husband’s nether garment. She therefore led him into the ladies’ dressing* room, saying she could fix the tear with a pin. On examination, however, she found she could not mend the rent unless he took off the garment. The husband peeled. Just then footsteps were heard, and women’s voices. The husband, in a flight, looked around for an avenue of escape, but saw only one other door besides the one by which they had entered. The wife was still more terror stricken, and, seizing her husband, she precipitately shoved him through the second doorway, and turned the lock on him. At the same instant two women came into the dressing room and discovered the wife standing there with a man’s double-bartelled garment in her hands. She attempted to explain, but her words were drowned by a series of ferocious poundings on the door through which her husband had disappeared. “ Open the door ! Open the door !” he shouted. “ I can’t !” shrieked the poor, distracted wife. “ There are two women in here !” “ Hang the women !” shouted the poor wretch again. “I’m out heie in the ballroom !”
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 193, 26 June 1903, Page 4
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214DECIDEDLY EMBARRASSING. Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 193, 26 June 1903, Page 4
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