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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2304, 16 April 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

"Wilt, you have a cigar, sir ?" asked Th ompson, offering an old gentleman one. "No, 110," replied the old gentleman, testily; "I never smoke." "No."' said Thompson, " but I see you flare up occasionally." Loun Hexky Bextixck, brother of the fifth Duke of Portland, once happened to attend a country church in the North of England on a week-day festival, when the interior was most elaboiately decorated with flowers and evergreens, while very few worshippers were present. After the congregation had been dismissed, the parson said to Lord Henry, '"May I ask what you thought of the service?" His lordship 'immediately replied, "As yon have asked my opinion, you shall have it in a very few words—plenty of cover, but very little game !" 1H isy tell a story of a newspaper man that illustrates his presence of mind under the most trying circumstances. He was awakened in an hotel one night by the cry of fire,' and in one spring and two movements was out of bed and in the hall, which was filled with smoke. Just ahead of him was a flying figure, clad in white like himself, and running at 2: 10 clip. A turn in the hall and two steps leading to a higher level brought the figure up, or rather down, and the same c.mse precipitated the newspaper man against her. "Let's pray," erii'd the alftighted W"oian, as she clasped him by the arm. " No, It's run," was his reply, and putting her once nioro in the ri<Wit direction, the lady was soon far ahead though her rescuer got out in plenty of time. Beauty.—There is nothing more unfavourable to female beauty th;>:i late hours. Women who spend most part'of the day in bed and the night at work or in' dissipation have always a pale, faded complexion, and dark-rimmed, wearied eyes. .Loo much sleep is almost as hurtful as'too little and is sure to bloat the person with a pallid and unwholesome fat. A gross and excessive indulgence in eating and drinking is fatal to fotnalo charms. The. appetite .should novor bo wasted during the intervals between meals on pastry, oont'ectionery, or any other tickler- of the appetite which gratifies the taste but does nut support the system. Exercise is of course essential to female beauty.