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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2334, 2 June 1887, Page 3

Wbong Kind op Shirt.—lt was a respectable looking coloured man who brought his washing home. "Your wife is a good washerwoman, isn't she ?" said the young bachelor to the polite and obsequious man. "Yaas, sir; she com. monly always give satisfaction." " Well," resumed tho young baohelor in his blandest and most insinuating manner, "you can tell your wife that I esteem her very highly, as one possessing many womanly and Christian virtues, a domestic ge.n and household ornament, a social luminary and moral beacon, an exemplary Christian, a gentle, loving wife, a washerwoman among ten thousand, and altopother )oye)y, hut there's one objection. " What's dat, sah ?" inquired the smiling African, who had been showing two rows of spotless ivory and a cavernous opening of _ the head, while his wife was being so ex* travagantly eulogised. What's _ dat, boss ?" " She puts all the starch in my socks, and none in my shirts; she washes or irons aU the buttons off and forgets to re. place them , exchanges my clothes for those of some other patron, and if you'H look at this (holding up a garment) you'll seeho.w inconvenient it would be to wear either pantaloons, cuifs or collars with such a shirt as she sometimes sends me. It may bo that she cuts off the arms and collar to make the tail longer, but I can't see what the deuce she should want to ruffle the edge? for." The darky looked a little disgusted as he wrapped the garment up to take it home, but only said : " Idea sending a man dat kin' o' shirt!"