HOW SHE KEPT HER TEMPER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1091, 10 April 1883, Page 1

HOW SHE KEPT HER TEMPER.

It happened in this wise : . You know, M rather you don't know until I tell yon, (hit there was a beautiful dinner given ' nanjr years ago/ And she sat opposite him and looked ever so charmiog in a white colore! silk with a square neck, and otherwise arrayed as nerer were the lillirs of the valley 1 well, the idiot of a waiter in handling the soap, apiet the entire contents of api Ate right into her lip. Just think of it, girls. The whole front breadth of it utterly ruined, and far the world it could n>t be matched. Well, what did eke do f DiJ she faint t Did' she say,'you horrid man!' Not at all j she passed the thing off in some witty '• uark about her baptism, and calmly resumed he* dinner. Ee, of course, was delighted 1 thought her a most remarkable woman, and indeed •he was \ became attentive to her, and Anally married htr. One eveniog long after the event they were sitting be ore the fire, the children having gone to bed, aid were tatting about old times, when he said, 'My d»-r, I nerer told you, I think, how I first thought I would like to marry you, did I?' ' Why, graoious geodneis! no, never." * Weli,' he said, do you remember that dinner at Mrs Simpkins', where your dress was spoiled by the soapf 'lndeed I do,' she replied. *I shall sever forget it as long as I live.' ' Well,* he continue-),' you behaved so well about it that I thought you a perfect jt*el.' ' Te#,' she answered, 'I rememb-r Ke'.'VfingVery ##)l about it at the tim*, but, ny rtari, you should hive seen the mavki of my eeth on th btd* post that night. I' H< w wasn't that toe perfectly roroai ti« for anv • i »a ?