VARIOUS WAYS OF TELLING IT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 72, 14 March 1908, Page 3

VARIOUS WAYS OF TELLING IT.

The Plain Style,

A lady sliced on some orange-peel in ! sdiool Street yesterday, and l>rokc har ley. The Staccato Style. , It wa» H job for ii surgeon. Orange-peel did it. There was a slide, a scream, and a< dull thud. i The atmosphere was lull of lingerie, j frou-frou, liairpins, and bric-a-brac. It was laughaole. But only to a few. A dozen men rushed gallantly to the lvscue. j. It wass a woman who hud fallen. Horroi!'. A nether limb broken. She was in agony. And all because of somebody's care- I lessuoss. Saul has slain lii- thousands. , Orange-peel has slain its ten thou- i sands. i

The Florid St vie

Tripping lightly down School Street yesterday afternoon, her face all aglow with health, and every muscle, nerve, vein, and artery 111 harmony with the invigorating atmosphere, a representative of the softer sex was seen suddenly to detlect from the perpendicular, and ill another instant this one of Heaven's last and best gifts to man came .with crushing force to the hard, unyielding pavement. The, immediate cause of tile unfortunate lady's downfall was the greasy envelope of that tropica! fruit, the orange, which some thoughtless, il not. malicious, individual had cast upon the public pavement. The victim of this carelessness, or worse, has sustained a fracture of a- limb, and it will be many weary weeks ere she will again he able to walk erect and stately as heretoiore. The l'acetious Style.

She "will he careful how she treads 011 orange-peel hereafter. She didn't know it was loaded: hut it shot her oil. It is only a broken leg: not much comfort to her, but a good thing for the surgeon. There's money in it. People who throw away orange-peel should be careful to "throw it so that it will hind with the slippery side down, unless they are in league with the bone-setting profession. In that case, of course, it is different.