WHAT MRS. SCANDAL SAYS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 311, 30 October 1880, Page 2

WHAT MRS. SCANDAL SAYS.

Mrs Scandal says that it was both cruei and uncalled for on the part of Mrs Sneer to say that if Mr Yerdigrease started a cheese factory she would have no occasion to buy rennets, for >\\e ' would only require to hold her old vinegar lace above the milk tubs to curdle the milk.- Bui Mrs Scandal says that Mistress Sneer should lie more guarded in her language, for she herself had often contiadicted the report that Mrs Sneer had a brother that was. hanished. Mrs Sc ndal says that she had w idea' that the manufacture of p arta and false jewellery had come to such perfection. She was at a party last week when she met Mrs Vermillion. She had two magnificent pearl dropearrings and an antique cameo representing Ganymede presenting the cup to Jupiter. It was whispered round the room that they were worth one hundred pounds. Judge of my nurprise, says Mrs Scandal, when I was informed next day by Mistress Envy that both the earrings an I the ant'que brooch were bought for fifty shillings. Mrs Scandal says that when she hears Mrs Tick boasting of her husband's wealth,, she cannot nelp thinking that it would be good for some folks if they were present when he was counting it. Mrs Scandal says that when she see& gentleman walking to churci, pointing out their toes like a French dancingmaster and carrying a large gilded Bible in titeir hands, she cannot help saying to herself, " " Coming events cast their shadows before." Mrs Scandal says that Mr Acid and Mrs Alkali are the two most disagreeable persons she ever met with in all her life—they cannot' be in each other's company for half-a-minute without raising a disturbance.

Mrs Scandal says, that there are some people in this world that the more you do for them the more they will abuse you. Just the week before the last Presbyterian Fast she happened to be out at a quiet party, and so it happened, just by chance as it were, that Mrs Envy made some remark about the extravagent dress which Mrs. Treddles had got lately, and she wondered where all the money came from to keep up such grandeur, for the daughter- were just as extravagently dressed as their mother ? Surely Mister Tivddles must be a wonderful rich man.

Mrs Scandal says that she then made t:ie following remarks :—The Treddlc* family were most respectable Deople,.but they had their trouble*, like their neighbours ; insanit;.' being in the familj fr >tn the fathers side, and the fallen sickness fr m the mother's. And what is the consequence ! says Mrs Scandal ; the Treddles family, male and female, young and old, are going about and calling her all maimer of names for taking h r part, and sympathising with them, which was nothing but her duty;, but it is just the old st ry, " set beggars on horseback," &c. Mrs Scandal has seen the day when Mrs Treddles was. gla i to get a days washing from her and will, maybe, see it again. A candle lighte.it at bot t t-nds does not last long, and, as Mrs Envy says, it is not all gold that glitters.—Saturday Advertiser.