GIVE IT A TRIAL.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 6

GIVE IT A TRIAL.

It was not until a Bridgewator woman road the recipe in half a dozen different papers that she concluded to give it a trial. We refer to that recipe which cays that a " tableppoonful of sawdust placed in each boot will keep the feet both dry and warm." Tho hueband of this Bridgewater woman was always complaining about cold feet, and so the other morning ehe poured two tableepoonfula of sawdust into his boots. The result rather surprised her. He slipped on his boots, ate his breakfast, and started for his place of business. He had not gone 25 yards from the house before he retraced hia etepss, and commenced to orate on profane history. As soon as he got into the dining room he assisted one boot off with the toe of the other, and kicked it against a£s mirror, while its mate struck his seven -year- old son on the head, and made him yell lustily. His wife, seeing that something ailed her husband, asked, "Wbat'a the matter dear?" He said something that sounded like "Jam it!" gathered up his boots, and, after emptying out the sawdust, replaced them on his feet, and shot out of the house with his feet warm clear to the roots of the hair on his head. His wife thinkß maybe she used the wrong kind of sawdust.

A London waiter was both witty and > sarcastic, and did'nt know the fact. "Do you call that a veal cutlet, waiter?" said an exquisite, one of the most delicate type even in that favoured region of exquisites, the Weßt End. " Why, sir, such a yea outlet as that is an insult to every selfreepeoting calf Jn the , British i empire!", The waiter hung hie head in very shame for a moment, and then replied, in the language of humblest apology. " I really d'd'nt intend to insult you, sir."