A carious notice to the following effect is to be read at the entrance of one of the restaurants in Pesth, where the waiting it done by females:—" Gentleman are requested to abstain from kissing the waitresses on the stairs, as this is a fruitful source of breakage and impedes the "■ service.'" The manager has trebled his business by this phcara, as every one now goes to see what the young ladies who are not to be kissed are like !
One of the saddest and most vexatious: trials that come to a jtirl when she marriei is that she has to discharge her mother and depend upon a hired girl. But the saddest time for the new-made husband ii when the wife does't discharge her' mother, but takes her home with her. Not Unlikely.—" How long will it be before you get your work done ? " said a lady to an apprentice who was painting her house. " Well I don't know, mann, said he ; " the boss has just gone to' look . for another job; if he gets it, I'll be done to-morrow, but if he don't I'm afraid it'll take me all next week."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3354, 22 September 1879, Page 2
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193Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3354, 22 September 1879, Page 2
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