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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 18 March 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

,The "Plowbuy" Way of Ddixo It.- ' Britisli luisbamls, when theii- dioner-pnrties'turn out failures, are apt to grumble roundly at their wives for tip. cook's misdemeanours, b'tit tbey abstain from the practical stylo of rebuking < practised by the Celestials, Recently the Chinese- professor at Harvard College, U.S., gave a national banquet to his follow-profcssors, ' and was much put out becauso tho cookery was not to his la'sto. After a time he got up, bowed solemnly, said," Go lickeewife," and departed, ; returning presently, smiling and bland as iHital, after having administered judicious chastisement • to his better half.

A Cojri'osEß and ins Wife.-Not long • siuco, Strauss and his wife wore strolling out, when the.composer exclaimed to his companiiA, "Mydoar, I have a wait?, in my Jioad; quick, give mo the insido of a lottor or an envelope to write it down before I forget it" The situation was rural, and when Johann Strauss has music on the brain it maddons him untill if bo transferred to jrapor. Happily, after he had utilised his wife's linen culls m default of a scrap of paper,' site found a bank note in her pui-ie, ami tho ■ score was finished, Hums once Wrote a poem on a bank note, and it has never been presented at , (Ijebankyijt., Perhaps Strausi's new score may bo equally a present to the bankers. 1 '