EVA'S EFFERVESCENCE.

NZ Truth, Issue 97, 27 April 1907, Page 6

EVA'S EFFERVESCENCE.

The new chum woman who comes before the Court— the first offender— doesn't like to face the small sea of faces that confronts her when she reluctantly enters the dock. With averted gaze, or lowered optics, she listens to the charge, and pleads, and gets dealt iWith all m the course of' a few seconds, "but it really seems to be an eternity to her, and she is relieved when asked to stand down. That was how Eva Charters felt' at Christohurch police court this week. Eva is a well-roade woman -who togs up m a tailor-made grey tweed ; but her face couldn't, be seen as she was fooking at her boots all the time. And her boots were good to see. From what came out it appears that the lady is the wife of a shopkeeper m Colombo-street, and that she had a few drinks. Also she had a few rows with her husband, and went outside on the , street and defied buiiby and the universe. ' Twice did a copper put her inside her own house and tell her to hold her confounded mug,, but the undaunted woman returned to the footpath a, third time, and then she was run m for being "disorderly, yer Washup." Next day she was repentant, and it transpired, on her husband's say so, that she 'had never been that way before. Also, that she wasn't addicted to drink, or any such vice of so low a character. Bench Bishop looked askance, but asked if there was any family f and received a reply m the negative. However, he .wasn't satisfied about the defendant's drinking capabilities, and he ordered her to join the great army of prohibited persons. That is, supposed to settle her, -but secret drinking is one of the greatest curses of Ohristchurch. There is no doubt about that. And the secret drinkers are • the worst when they riot round on the rampage. ..':