JUSTLY REPROVE®;

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2464, 30 November 1886, Page 2

JUSTLY REPROVE®;

On-a oertain occasion an elderly gentle- S man started across a broad Btreet. Three 1 > young.ladietf; all abreast,, started' at th# t j Bamo moment frorii the other; side. The ; \ sprinkler had made pools of mud on either • 1 sido of the oroaaing, The old • gentlemaa : stepped.clear to the edge, but the young j woman in front of him literally bora down on him with no idoa that he would not plunge his fresh-polished gaiters into .the slop on.the right of the dry crossing. The old man looked at the mud, -he looked at the young lady, and then he waited £ . until she was within reswf him, wbsfl he, gently but firmly taka^her hand ia 8> ■his, and saidf inf low tone" deas "• young lady. I cannot step into ths mud. j I would give you.the way if it was neeei* ■ sary—any gentleman'would. But it not. necess&ry/'beo&uje you and yow companions could walk single file, and hot force anybody off. Always remember that while; iM* the duty a gentleman to & be polite and chivalrous to ladies, it ii » F wpmanVdtity tci be and nok make his' deference a U first the girl was. amaied, dumbfounded. Then she tried to, twist herself loos®, but •, the gentleman wm firm aa a rook, and held her perfectly ELill until h» had finished his neat andneodf ul little addrou. At;its clofl® .the lady • tushed off through, the thin mud 1 crying: with' mortification, • dbowiQß' herself through the small J crowd who had.-boen detained on the ' cross-stones at their sidos.