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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2400, 26 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

J[■ told to t.ilii! a “backseat” one will invariably take affront. Aiisbnic-eatisu produces clear, white t'H nlja 1 ■ >ll I.\ "lie week in Now Ym'k 32 dry-goods clinks lost tlii'ir situations bccansß it was ascertaine 1 that limy frequented poolrooms. A young niaii with vices makes an old man in crime. “My young fiiond,” he said solemnly, “do yon over attend a place of worship?” “Vis, sir. regularly every .Sunday night,” replied the youth. “I’m on my way to see her now.” Ur; appeared suddenly at the door of a fashionable hoarding-house Iho other day, wearing a bland smile and a seersucker suit. The ladies were all gioup id mi the verandah, iu breakfast costumes. “ Indies,” ho said, dolling his hat, “a gentlnmn who boards here asked me to bring this basket of lillies and present it with hi.s compliments to the prettiest lady I icre.” Tncre was a moment's p mse, and then a maiden who had seen many summers, asked sharply, “ Well, why don't yon present it ?” The man undo a deprecatory how. “How can I, miss? He forgot to give mu any address, and I couldn’t pick out one from so many.” What did ho look like?” asked all the ladies at once. “ Very distnangey, with a light moustache, or lennne see, was it dark ? 1 kind of disrmnomher the colour, lint that’s what he said -the prettiest lady,” *• Could it have been Mr for tint horrid Miss ?"’ “ More likely for the Widow,” “It must have been Captain “I hate to take them back,” said the man reflectively “If the lady he meant will pick herself out, 111 give her the lilies,” and he twirled one fragrant bnd in his hand. “ I suppose you couldn't sell any of then,” niurinmvd a sweet old thing who know .-.ho was the “one” inoant. “ I could sell to you all together, hut, not to ope; that, wouldn't ho fair. Von see the gentleman will know I couldn't afford to lose tie l sale of ’em. Six f. r live cents, ladies. If I can’t find the right one ’tiiin’t my fanir, an’ I never see s’ many pretty ladies afore in my life.” “ I'll take a hunch “And I.” The basket was soon emptied. At dinner every lady wore a lily i.a her head or at her ix-It, and Mr and Captain were smiled upon by Innn by the whole posti! of feinah' boarders, to their great, stirprise. “(.'nod heavens! what have we done to deservo it f” asked the gentlemen of each other, as they were thanked for their good intentions, The ladies do not know yet that they wore the victims of n commercial ) - «sf on the part of the lily vendor.