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NOTHING LIKE A GOOD NAME.

A young Auckland citizen calls his sweetheart Revenge, because she is sweet, and a young married man residing in Dunedin calls his mother-in-law Delay, because she is dangerous; and a Taihape man calls his wife Fact, because she is a stubborn thing: and a fourth wife of an attorney calls him Necessity, because he, knows no law; and a Hawera man calls his wife Sluggard, because she gets mad and goes to her aunt every time he stays out at the lor.'ge; and a Wellington man calls his wife Frailty, because Shakespeare says, "Frailty, thy name is woman": and a certain insurance agent calls his wife Honesty, because it's the lest policy; and a Napier man calls bis wife Mary -lane, because that is her nam"; and a ,\Vanganui man calls his wife Darling, because that isn't her name—

she's a regular vixen •, and a Now Plymouth man calls !iis wife Knough, because she is as good as a ft;.st.

THE MUSICAL COOK. Sir Frederick Bridge, the famous organist ol Westminster Abbey, who compiled the music lor the Wesleyan hyniuliook, confesses that lie received much assistance in his work from \&. Rider, his rook for thirty years, who was a life-long Wosbynn. " Occasionally," says Sir Frederick, ,T T was vh a difficulty about one of the traditional Wesleya'n turn s, and I used to go to tlv dinner lift, and call c'.own to Mrs. Rider in the kitchen, 'Do you know this hymn!-' 'Yes,' she vrouid reply. 'Won'd you please hum it to me?' And my cook would sing it up the lift. an<i ninny tunes she thus sang to me 1 added to the hymn-honk iust as she sang them. Hitler." says Sir Frederick. '•'was my cook for thirty years, and T never once prevented her from going to chapel, and she never objector: to me goiiiLr to {lie Abbey. We observed a sort of benevolent neutrality."

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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 169, 28 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

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322

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD NAME. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 169, 28 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD NAME. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 169, 28 April 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

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