Listeners Hear No Good

NZ Truth, Issue 1197, 8 November 1928, Page 19

Listeners Hear No Good

DIXIE, my child,— Add this one to your ; collectionVof .assorted cpnyer,A ■ sationalists. I glistened m". — shamelessly — -on a tramcar,: arid, was .so interested that I got out three stops after the righ'l; one. By the vyay, need; I lady looked as if George Washington had .chopped her but --of the' cherry: tree with his well-known little, .hatchet? '. "The yveddjrig was; lovely, dear--she looked better than I've ever seen her look before > mi n fact, she looked .a 1 most ; nice. The dress was lovely, too, but she .should have worn velvet, not lace— it's not everybody who can afford to wear these transparent frocks. . . .1 don't know: how going to get on at breakfast-r-they've only got -half a stomach betweeh them. She's a vegetarian and he can't eat anything 1 but egg's and milk. . ..■■..■■- ■:'.. ■'.'••.: n.■ ■ . "Isn't the wedding service disgusting? Fruitful vines and all that.. It wouldn't be allowed anywhere except m church; And, RATHER comic, really— he's .pltf enough to be her grandfather. Still, they do say< she married for a rest cure. . ....-.> "Oh, Mrs. Jones, T ; do think she's sweet,' but quite brainless; Of course; if she wasn't, she couldn't possibly endure him-— he'd drive me-, mad m a vVeek. They say he never lets' her finish a- : sentence—always says: 'Have'a drink, old chap,' Whenever she begins to talk. • Of course, I did think, m the first place,. 'that he would have married a different s6rt of girl. You know— she' can't say: 'Here I stand with a lily m my -hand.^ ; Butter wouldn't melt in' her ' mouth when she's with the right people. lt-doesh't : melt when she's .with' ME. .. But. she's a hard case.. ■■■'":■■•■■•' J " ■■■■'■■' ■•"'■- ■" ' : .- ■ ' " "' ' ■•-'.'.'■. •■ '.' ■ ■■'.'• ■'•■ "Ma'dge^ Blank— -oh, yes, she has perfect manners. Never speaks out of her-place. ; ! do- think that's to. her credit, for, ; of course, she was dragged iip m a ■gutter somewhere m Newtbwn, .She never learned her manners from women, you may be sure. ; Ricked, it up; from some^ of the numerous MEN .. „ . • .V' . : ' :'■'■''' '':■■'■'■ : r : -- -'■■•■'■ i : •'•-'.■■ ■'■;.■•■': "I wouldn't call her an immoral girl.i I'd just say she was born without' any morals.- 1 I don't want to. dot all .these things myself. I don't' uhdierstand them/ r But Vn\ broad -minded; Let people db; wjiat ;th©y;Uke r sayAl.vv.>.; &W± ■;-:. ;:■: V- '-";;.■ i l .!-^'''- 'i^^ "-' „■"■■ «,. ■■.;■•,"■ ;.■ -■' Well, 'Pixie,; what say .j you? Good- nig!jt|jnurse, r | suppose. Sam©: hew:^Ujnaniwouslys^urs,^AFFYr ; ' . * .. . ;: ..."... ..- ■■'■-.'•'