A WOMAN’S ECONOMY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1194, 21 June 1884, Page 3

A WOMAN’S ECONOMY.

1 Nothing.for dinner V asked a Park street gentleman the other day when he went home and found his wife sewing and a cold bite set out for him.

4 I am so busy, deaf,’ murmured the good woman. ‘ Sew I see,’ remarked the husband, Then he took his hat, went down to the Women’s Exchange and had a hot lunch—hot rolls, hot meat-pie, coffee, and a delicious pudding. ‘ An excellent meal,’ he said pleasantly as he laid down the change for it,

‘ It ought to be good/ replied the lady cashier ; your wife baked the pie. and made the rolls and the pudding j she is such a good cook that -we keep her busy sending ip luncheon all the time.

‘ You might have knocked me down with a feather,’ he said afterwards to liis confidential friend. ‘ I thought we were getting a good many new things up at the house, and that Sue was awful economical, and here she’s just been starving it out of me. Weil ! well ! It a e. oman to practice economy—at some other fellow's expense.’

They Picked up the Baby.— 4 Look at you 1’ shrieked Mrs Economy, as the nurse let the hahy fall over the second floor baluster, ‘Two inches nearer the wall and that child would have smashed a nOdol. statuette and the hall lamp.’ And then they picked up the baby.

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