Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42784, 28 September 1905, Page 4

Odds and Ends.

COURTSHIP ES T CAMERA. She gave him a cabinet photo ; He gazed for a moment or two, Then pleaded j “ Sweetheart, won’t you give me . ~ y. ■ ' .. - The lovely original too ?’ .. , v “If you’re positive, dear, that you love me,” '' ' She said, through a film of tears, “ A negative I cannot give you; I’m yours to the end of our years. • . . So courtship was quick to develop, ' Their marriage was fixed up in town, And now in a middle-class suburb She is steadily toning him down. : : MUTUAL RECOGNITION. As a hall recently a young medical student suddenly came face, to face with a dear. kind, fatherly-lpoking. gentleman, with white hair and highly respectable appearance, , c They both stood transfixed; the -£• same idea flashed across both of them. Your face is familiar to me—very familiar: but I cannot remember where y we have met so often. • ; • However, j the friendly impulse was carried out. TheyshooV warpaly, partook of a glass of wiiiy. . and parted, still ignor int of each other s name and occupation. *'' But the young m >n was determined. • to solve the problem, and he seized on .;-,y a waiter and said to him : v. Toll me, waiter, who is that diet ins guished stranger with the long white hair 1 ' , , ' . And the waiter whispered slowly : Why, sir, that’s .Mr X,', .the pawnbroker ! • : v Y A proninent member of the-Bar is noted for his quick wit, which has helped him to make hi S' name and fortune, and which never deserts him. One day a wealthy client entered his office, and throwing back bi 3 coat,, rappe 1 out irritably: # ' r “ Why, your oflß.ce, air, is as hot a as an ovea !” Why not?” was the calm response. . “ It’s here I make my bread.”