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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5094, 21 July 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

JAMES SMITH, IE ARO HOUSE, HAS DETERMINED TO OFFER FOR THE NEXT TWENTY-ONE DAYS - -sn t J . ' -===^ 'V-R; tNss- 7 == > V-uN rltSl ■Sa AMES SMITH, ■ ARO HOUSE, HAS DETER.VIISKD TO OFFER FOR THE NEXT TWENTY-ONE DAYS THE FOLLOWING STARTLING BARGAINS: FANCY DRESSES 5256 EANOY DRESSES, ALL IN LENGTHS OF 12 YARDS EACH, CONSISTING OF EANOY CHECKS, EANCY STRIFES, SATIN TRAILS, SILK SCROLLS, SILK CHECKS, AT 2s. lid. 5s lid 7s lid JAPANESE SILKS. 14 YARDS FOR 9s Gd, 14s 6d, 18s 6d, 21s 6d, 27s 6d. STRIPED AND BROCHE SILK DRESSES. FOR 19s 9d, 44s Gd, 47s 6d, 50s 6d, 65s Gd. These prices are fully one-half less than the ordinary prices. BLACK SILKS, IS FULL DEBSS LENGTHS, At less than manufacturer’s prices—--39s 9d, 52s Gd, 59s Gd. MILLINERY BONNETS: ENGLISH FRENCH MOURNING ss. 6d. 10s. 6d. 10s. 6d. JAMES SMITH, TE ARO HOUSE, A BUTTON OFF. It is bad enough to see a bachelor sew on a button, but lie is the embodiment of grace alongside of a married man. Necessity lias compelled experience in the case of the former, but the latter has always depended upon some one else for this service, and fortunately, for the sake of society, it is rarely he is obliged to resort to the needle himself. Sometimes the patient wife scalds her right hand, or runs a sliver under the nail of the index finger of that hand, and it is then the man clutches the needle around the neck, and forgetting to tie a knot in the thread commences to put on the button. It is always in the morning, and from five to twenty minutes after he is expected to be down street. He lays the button exactly on the site of its predecessor, and pushes the needle through one eye, and carefully draws the thread after, leaving about three inches of it sticking for leeway. He says to himself Well, if women don’t have the easiest time I ever see.” Then he comes back the other way, and gets the needle through the cloth well enough, and lays himself out to find the eye, but in spite of a great deal of patient jabbing, the needle point persists in bucking against the solid parts of that button, and finally, when he loses patience, his fingers catches the thread, and that three inches lie had left to hold the button slips through the eye in a twinkling, and the button rolls leisurely across the flooi. He picks it up without a single remark, out of respect to Ills children, and makes another attempt to fasten it. This time when coming back to the needle he keeps both the thread and button from slipping by covering them with his thumb, and it is out of regard for that part of him that be feels around for the eye in a very careful and judicious manner; but eventually, losing bis philosophy as the search becomes more and more hopeless, he falls to jabbing about in a loose and savage manner, and it is just then the needle finds the opening, and comes up through the button and part way through his thumb with a celerity that no human ingenuity can guard against. Then he lays down the things, with a few familiar quotations, and presses the injured hand between his knees, and then holds it under the other arm, and finally jams it into his mouth, and all the while he prances about the floor’ and calls upon heaven and earth to witness that there has never been anything like it since the world was created, and howls, and whistles, and moans, and sobs. After a while he calms down, and puts on his pants, and fastens them together with a stick, and goes to his business a changed man. JAMES SMITH, TE ARO HOUSE. LADIES’ BLACK STRAW HATS, (Superior QualitjH, ONE SHILLING EACH. FASHIONABLE FELT HATS ONE SHILLING EACH. FANCY DEPARTMENT., 5s lid. DRESS BUTTONS, Job Lot, Id per dozen. RIBBON VELVETS, Is PER PIECE. SILK FRINGES, Assorted Colors, 24d. MOHAIR TRIMMINGS, 36 yards for Is 6d. TARTAN BRAIDS, 36 yards for Is 6d. CARTE de VISITS ALBUMS, lUd. WHITE BUCKINGS, 2d. CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS, 3id. FUR TRIMMINGS, BJd. MOCK SABLE MUFFS, 2s lid. TE JAMES SMITH, ARO HOUSE, CUBA STREET, WELLINGTON. CHILDREN’S COSTUMES. 7s 6d, 8s Gd, 9s Gd. LADIES’ WATERPROOF TWEED MANTLES. Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to Reduced to 5s lid 9s lid 10s Gd 11s 9d 12s 6d 15s Gd LADIES’ BLACK CLOTH JACKETS, 2s Gd, 5s Gd, 7s Gd. CHILDREN’S WATEKPHOOE TWEED MANTLES. CHILDREN’S SEALED TRIMMED JACKETS. QUILTED SKIRTS, INDIAN CLOTH, 6s lid, 8s Gd, 9s 9d LADIES’ WOOL SHAWLS.