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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 189, 22 July 1874, Page 2

80 in. Finlay’s Twill Sheeting, Is Bd| per yard, worth 2s lid —Edwards’ Drapery and Clothing Sale.— Advt. W. Edwards is Slaughtering Drapery and Clothing at Greene’s Auction Mart, Gisborne. —A dvt. W. Edwards is selling Boys’ English and Colonial Tweed Knickerbocker suits under cost price, at Greene’s Auction Mart.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones are to be had on long leases. Employment for the mind is what thousands of women are in need of. After the plodding routine required for material necessities has been gone through with for the day, and the tired body requires and enjoys rest, the minds of many women reach out hungering and thirsting after intellectual food. Not having that craving satisfied is what causes unhappiness for many whose lives seem dark and barren. 1 To Mend China.—Take a thick solution of gum-arabic in warm water, and stir into it plaster of Paris till the mixture is of the proper consistency. Apply with a brush to the fractured edges of the china, and stick them together. In three days the article cannot be broken in the same place. The whiteness of the cement increases its value.