Too True to be Sad.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1991, 11 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

Too True to be Sad.

Hk was * busy man, and she was a society wo man. One evening he suddenly looked up from hn paper and said : "By tho way, didn't we Lave a baby in this house about the time Midland Jiroad-guage went up to ninety-eight ' " " Yes," she said ; " Oscar was born the night of the Evenngham reception." " Boy, watn't it?" ho said, with a show of interest. "I had forgotteu ; must be about seven monthi old by this time. Where nhe 9 " She touched a bell, a servant appeared, and she ordered Oscar to bo brought into the presence of his sire. Instead of whom tho weeping nuis» appeared alone, and with many tears confessed that the infant Oscar had boon kidnapped in the park six weeks before, and that the most careful •earch, aided by advertisements in the duly papers, had thm far failed to reveal his whereabouts. Thus we wee that wealth is no barrier to sorrow, and even into tho homes of the rich and the great, trouble creeps with its stealthy tread, and sometimes breaks up a whole evening of enjoyment. — Jhii li/K/tiiit NiiwLci/i .