STEPS AND "STARS."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 104, 5 November 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

STEPS AND "STARS."

Mr. Julius M. Price, the well-known author, tells an amusing story of a famous painter. . The painter was dining at a friend fl house one evening, and the dinner was a very lively affair, with the wine flowing fast and free. During the evening be remembered that he ought to have written a note to somebody, so one of the servants took him up to the host's study, boon after there, was a tremendous row. lno <M.est» rushed into the hall and found That the somewhat unsteady artist had fallen downstairs. "Are you hurt?" his host inquired with great concern. "Who wa* the architect ot this house?" was the artist's extraordinary The host mentioned the name ot an architect famous also as a temperance lecturer. , , "T thought as much." retorted the artist; "the confounded teetotaller!

Usual!? a man's idea of practising economy is to oreaelt it three times a dav to his wife.