WHY AUCKLAND GIGGLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 May 1919, Page 5

WHY AUCKLAND GIGGLES.

Auckland has got the giggles. It happened thus: A well-known society dame wdked into one of the 1 argest emporiums, and, an assiduous shopwalker, scenting business, hurried her into a showroom in which there was a glorious fur coat recently unpacked. “Oh, what a perfect beauty!" she gurgled; “what will it cost?" “One hundred guineas, madam. It is distinctive, it is unique, not one person in Auckland has seen it yet!" The lady begged him to put it out of sight until she should have time to think. Presently she returned. “I tell you what I’ll do," she said. “I will pay yon fifty pounds out of my Own pock't, if you will ring up my husband and ■-im buy it for fifty." So the assiduous shopwalker rang up one of Auckland’s biggest potentates and said: “I have a magnificent fin* coat worth one hundred guineas, which for trade reasons I will let you have for fifty. After some demur and further enquiry, “Eight you are," be said, “send it along." Very soon a very handsome little lady—not rhe wife — was seen tripping down Queen Street clad from head to foot in the perfect dream fur!! And the funny thing is that is’s nobody’s turn to speak. The society dame is diffident about opening up the subject; the potentate naturally is mum; and the lady friend, well so far she has not been called upon to say anything. But somehow the “good story" has got out, as good stories will and there you are!