STRICT WAR-TIME ECONOMY

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 205, 1 September 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

STRICT WAR-TIME ECONOMY

Being economical : s an excellent virtue, hut old Skinflint had practised this finality to such an extent that with him it had become almost a vice. His wife was sometimes drveii almost to the write of dstrai tion by his meanness, fiie climax came when they moved into a new house. When old Skinflint was out. his wife thought she would repnper the walls of the drawing-room so a- to make it look aitractiv > and pretty. But when Skinfint saw it lie in ar'i.\ bad a lit. " I don't dislike ibe pattern or the colour,," be »asp.'d, purole n the face with rage. ,: but I do object to the way you have put it on. Yon extravagant woman '" he cried, ' now dare you paste it on r"' "Why, how else could I have don.' 1 iir" meekly answered his wf'e. " How else?" he retorted, "you should have tacked it on. You don't suppose we shall always live in this house, do you P" DENSE. She (blushing slightly) : "Do von know, (leorge, I've sometimes heard t t»a : .d that in ancient tunes kissing a pretty girl was a cure, for a headache?" Ho (with monumental stupidity) : "A headache is something I've never had.''