ALL TOPSY-TURVEY.

NZ Truth, Issue 136, 25 January 1908, Page 6

ALL TOPSY-TURVEY.

The Moll, Her Money, and Her Mash. -1— — y How ahout money against love?; {And has love any chance against money when you have been married five years, and have had sir Mds ? Looks hard, doesn't it ? But a wife is a faithful creature— not to- her lover and lord, but to her children. She is always fcuttbful to them. Why? Well, it's the a*fcesad-ant disgrace, and .that's all about it. Well, tbe story need not be long. A woman who was bad up for being; a brothel-feeeper before the CbristohuiCh Police Court lias since dropped m for a legacy irom Hobart, ber mother having died {there. .It is a very substantial legacy, too, but as the lady is one of Hi-fame, it isii't likely to last long, ffi the meantime a two-storey house along tbe Avon river -has been an object "of attraction. It is a topsvturvey bouse and the boss doesn t sleep with his wife, whfo bas no fewer than five children. She says nofthiu,2 on account of tbe youngsters and sleeps upstairs on ber own. RMs> cove is A VERITABLE DON 'JUAN, Ahd something else, and lots more .besides. He dwells with a lady who is aa accounted moll, and be keeps a lew gallon keg oh the premises m case you are dry. A generous. sort lof chap. But be is a malodorous fellow, and tbe place is dirty, and .things should be cleaner than they are, . and the day of, judgment should fall on plague spots of anti-vernjfti, and broken pint-pots,, and other necessary articles so common to mankind which costs so much an incli^ or (there is dire -trouble. However, for ithe sake of the- children, tbe woman dwells serene, and has a girl to perform tbe kitchen work, and there is another giil .boarder ; but this 35---year-old young fellow wants tbe lot. There's only' one man' whom "Truth" believes intrudes on the four women, but he is a, person, of no inconsiderable personal attractions, and who 'Ss '.'all ■ ..rigbt'.'; ; trom, tbe :f eminine point of viewi- T_t ; doesn't matter much about that, of course ; why should it ? But the jfact remains that that .< topsy-Turvey bouse will have to go under. It is a most scandalous place, and girls of illmorals have been seen .frequenting it, as well as some of the best members of society. Perhaps it "was the latter jwho gave it away ; no doubt it was. lAt any rate, this woman has been fcharfi-Sri with being a wanton ■; this woman wbo has been m . _the police /books for a long time, has. now tlie gold gonce to shout, aad' nobody begrudges it to her, but still she is a favored member of the flash push, and is trying to get that man away Irom bis wife to Hobart ; but she jwill be' able to put Ms pot on if he ftries the. game on. And •HE IS BOUND TO TRY IT ON. It is a pity that the young fellow has so many kiddies and so , much stuff to come and go upon, but ,a (thousand quid— of somebody else's money— won't last long when you have a ten gallon cask of beer m the house every day and a girl to kiss, and a servant to mug, and see that everything m the »r chard is all m bloom. . Well, thihgs are only middling m that show*, and tbe wife has a hell of a time ot it, but she, wants money arid she has to keep her children m olothes, faral the whole., housie has to be clothod (if only iir beer); and matters aren't? what they should be. But there is one thing that might be ment ioned— the boss has EOt a new suit a. c ; 'contrasted against Itbe dirty blinds tbat appear on the Front windows. Contrasts are fearful iand wonderful things.