NOTES FOR THE FAIR.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 2

NOTES FOR THE FAIR.

After the nuptial knot is tied many find that it is knot what they expected.

Fact. — The hair from a lady's curl should never be worn on thelappelof a gentleman 8 coat, unless the parties are engaged.

Joe Jinks was fishing, and ■Pally' Squares waB sitting on a log beaide him. "fcftilly,' said he, " 1 vfish I was a fieb, and you was a bait— how I'd bite !"

Jane Marsh Parker has written a book which she calls " The Midnight Cry." * We have not read it, but we know all about it, and Jane haa our symputhy. The cats bother us, too.

" Few ladies continue their piano-playing long after marriage." Dues our contemporary make this announcement in order to encourage young men to enter matrimony?

Our esteemed friend, Mrs Malaprop, has no patience with the people who want women to have votes. She declares that, for herself, her nerves -could never bear the shock of having anything to do with the electrical franchise.

A lady was once lamenting the ill-luck, which attended her affaire, when a friend, wishing to console her, bade her "look upon the bright eido." "Oh," she sighed, " there seema to be no bright side." " Then, polish up the dark one, was the quick, reply.

A girl wants to know /* if it is true that kissing will cure freckles." Wouldn't say positively, but a simple cure like this ia worth trying. Call after business hours.

" Penelope," said a New York lady to her little Boston niece, '* will you see how high the thermometer is, please ?" " Yes, auntie, it is just even with the mantelpiece." "Thank you," eaid little Penelope's aunt, who was equal to the occasion ; " and will you see how high the mercury is ?" " Seventy degrees Fahrenheit, auntie," replied the Boston m\a*.