LORNE-STREET.

NZ Truth, Issue 91, 16 March 1907, Page 5

LORNE-STREET.

RESPECTABLE RESIDENTS' COMPLAINT. The respectable residents of Lornesbreet are loud m their wail about the apathy of the police with regard to other residents who are not respectable. A street is like a dog; give it a bad name and it is a very second-rate, sort of affair ever after. The . majority of the residents of Lome-street want to preserve the good name of their street", believing; with the immortal Willie that "Good name m man and woman is, the immediate jewel," etc. But, alas, there are a few residents; of that quarter who are right up against respectability of all kinds. They receive visitors at unearthly hours, and create merry sheol when the swanky gets to work. These disreputable residents are of the female gender and they lean over the front' gate of evenings and say "Good-night, duckie," to perfect strangers who pass that way. ( But it some time happens that the 1 daughters or wives of eminently respectable residents are standing at the gate getting a. breather, when a half screwed habitue of the houses that are not respectable waltzes along, and he invariably insists upon oalling the. eminently respectable maiden or matron Flo, or Violet or Kid or something equally familiar and drinkified and wants to caress them and take them to his bosom m the fading twilight. Of course this kind" of thing is very distressing and annoying to' -the respectable residents and it is no wonder that their lamentations have . been distinctly heard m "Truth" office on more than one occasion. All they want is that the police will give the night-owl brigade the tip to shift into a street where their neighbors' code of morals Won't clash with their own, and that they will also keep a sharp eye on the half-screwed person who, when searching'for Flo, insults respectable matrons and maids.