SOIREE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1462, 21 August 1883, Page 2

SOIREE.

;|.What^;uiv'^^ame ,, 'jhas never/ 'jbj'en |it '.'has/ 1 will firati lobk at: tfee d6Hvdii(iii ! 6f tha

'-eveningj' 'fropi ;and a^ro(fig. ; te; ,?Qhpßwhj iand.pthervdj^j^ 'mee^ngw'fl'society; c"dngregft'tio.h ! /!|EC, . where Varied with and. buslnesS'teports." '■' At the prespnt'jltinie. Ib wt; knows exactly what the- worctis' meant for, as it is so convenient.th'aiit;canW. |wisted to suit any kinjj -$f pent, : At : Qrie time it^camcdjd' certairij "ambunt of' fjm'l'expressioii twenty, but ftatoQ that's got up.and decorated' with' its name. ," Sam I ' : waß;invited by Hie footmen of Balh • lb consisting' pf> ; a l boiled leg : ,of -inutton ■, with the usual trimmings. Sam''wondered what name they.-would,.give a roasted one. ' In some partsf Church tea meetmgs.'are called sqireeSi,Salvation Muffi&:;-,worrieß.;. are-vaoirees, musical and literary entertammbnts; are soirees, its use ;htis;' :in.'fact ; become so general, that .is when visiting /.a strange'" : place, even to guess its meauing there, unless one wishes to court ridicule,' A case in point, occurred to anew arrival in this district a few'w.eeks ago. •■ Being one of the dancing sort, ; he received'an invitation •to a. soiree, he treated the matter as a joke, aud thought someone was trying to take a rise" out of him. iTEte laughed at the idea of joining in an ! evenings tea sipping with a loUf slow going fogeys as that was the, meaning of it, at the place he had; ju'sfr-arrived from. After a lot of explanation by some of his friends lie was induced to 1 try a Mastertonsoiree. ThQiUvitation . was accepted, has ' since come to the conclusion that our ; idea of" Soiree" is the best he has : come across. . \ '■'\,p ''..■ 1 •; -•,:.■' ' SmailCaps.