XMAS BOXES & NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1267, 2 January 1883, Page 3

XMAS BOXES & NEW YEAR'S GIFTS.

To the Editor of the .Waiiiarapa Daiw. i'DEAn Sir,—As it is Christmas time) tho hilarious developments of human nature . compounded under, the aatonndihg influence ■of •obr^mo'dera I 'astronomers, ; aspirants to 1 literary famo seem bysome micomprehensible: agency to spontaneously develop in lour local storekeeper immotalisation. Tko 'individuals alluded- to have feolings so peculiarly acuto. that anything-1 will say I won't hurt them. The one has such a ]paetkal capacity/ and' tho other such ah iOr/eirtd abundance of,-witticisms, slightly; i tinged with V.aukeyißm, bordering ou injured' innbeonce—sometbiiig really delightful for a I New Year's. Gilt or Christmas Pudding-or, i jin other,words, ''.VNfill yon come into my -chamber says' the spider to the fly." ; Now, jsuymy idea of those wirihies is, that.in;. stead'sfwaßtiiig'theirsuperfluous talent by iway of advertising each other, they .should have; adopted- thefcoiirso the celebrated Dau' O'Connell had recoup to when he wagered to beat the ' immortalised fish-wife' of Dublin, Mrs Moiiarly; in a fair scold in' the open street. 'Chat would be something 7, llike business instead of calling each other' Jgew-gawß, curibsityiboxes, *c,' Why, Sir;'' did .they not call'each'other .parallelo-' •grams, right-angles, tri-angles, 'acuta angles; s perpendiculars, biceps, &o. ? Why the', ivery .tone ■' of it is parliamentary and' 'elocutionary. Hoping you will excuse : iiie■for trespassing on your valuable Bpace on wry muoh that storekeepers are necessarily necessitated/to • have' recourse to suoh-a 1 fcurrilous node - of pmonutty} ajmtimj '■ each othtrj and lowering the'standard'of-respecta-jiility, that bona $/e. tradosmon fjiid; mer-. ' phants-.-are ehtitied to, ! Wialiinp you and all my-numerous customers and -friends a Sappy New Year,: and a great' many of ;hem.v, ■>:>..■,' •■ ■•' ■ n ■■;,, ■; ;. :.-(.„ .w M' ■ ■ -IhavoiAc',-, : ' : - : te H' '■• ■•\ ■ ; ' ; D;FvMcCarthy;"'