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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9191, 14 September 1908, Page 5

An American sailor who look his pleasure sadly, plugged up the steep and slippery hill on a bicycle (says the "Melboirno Age"). Eveiy now and then he dismounted—in reality to take breath, but ostensibly to fix the fastenings of his wide pantaloons to save them from entanglements in the cogs and chain. Two or three small boys started to follow him, then a dozen, then a crowd. He dismounted breathleso, at an hotel on the hill's crest, and entered. "Waal," greeted a cyclist in cycling costume, who was already in the bar, "Guets you have bellows to end. Yes, sir." The sailor seemed annoyed. He thought that the man in cycling attire was mucking the American method of speech. High word aiosr-, but the man in the cycling c:>stunia kept'up the mockery with great tie termination. His nasal accent ijtc-nne I more exaggerated with every heatjil sentence. The sailor, after threatening many things, finish'-'cl his beer, jumped on his cycle, and, in gieat indignation, rode away. When he had gone, the cyclist said to the landlord: —"I calculate he's on the wrong trail. I'm from Massachusetts, and I'm 011 the Kentucky. I borrowed this here costume to come out f.ii" a ride." GOOD TASTE IN MtTJ.INERY. Millinery that is tasteful, refined, and elegant in appearance, alvvajs has a fascination for ladies. In Wellington, the finest stocks of Ladies' Hats from the leading British, and Continental houses are held by Mrs Mathowson, Lambton Quay, just opposite the Bank of Now Zealand. A visit to this establishment would bo an education and a pleasuro to any lady, and the moderateness of the prices a revelation. For Bronchial Coughs take "Woods 'fteat Peppermint Cure, 1,6 and 2/6.