BARMAID AT 70.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 133, 27 November 1911, Page 5

BARMAID AT 70.

A youthful misogynist. A youthful interrupter helped the Rev. " }!', e 8™ r to amuse the audience at a |H'oJnl>]tioii meeting in Wellington. The lecturer was speaking in favor of the abolition of barmaids, when a vounff man, sitting not far from the front, exclaimed: -Wouldn't they make the trade better?"

Tregear did not repel this suggestion but said he would make a condition 110 llotel should have a barmaid under <0 years of age. "And then," he added amidst laughter, "I don't think my young friend would be so fond of the

Tlus brought the youth to his feet I have the honor," he said in clear and nivging tones, "to be a misogynist, so your statement is incorrect. Trv another." v J

Mi»s who?" asked the lecturer, amid more peals of laughter. Ibe interrupter answered readilv enough: " 1 am not here ,to teach you the Lnghsh language. I said 'misogyn-

A misogynist is a woman hater," said Air. Tregear. "Look at him!"— which was easily done, for the youn® man was still standing. "Can you imagine a young man of ordinary common sense standing up and saying he is a woman-hater? It's too foolish for anything."

"Not so foolish as lots of tJhings you've said!" came the reply of the woman hater."

Why, he's only 18!" continued the lecturer.

"Seventeen!" shouted back the misogynist.

The chairman then closured the incident, although lecturer, inter-apter and audience still seemed t<* be enjoyin o ' themseives. *"