The Proof.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 16, 17 April 1902, Page 19

The Proof.

Our beloved benefactor stated further that Miss Roosevelt, the President's daughter, still retained the pieces of the broken bottle. Poor Miss Roosevelt ! Any other woman in the United States is at liberty to go and have a look at Mr Seddon at the Coronation, but she cannot, because Bhe is the President's daughter. Any other woman in the United States, or out of them, can thrown the pieces of a broken bottle out on to the ash-heap or over the fence into her neighbor's yard, but Miss Roosevelt, evidently, hag to keep them in her house. At this rate, there can't be much fun in being related to a President. One wouldn't mind going around christening yaohts, etc., but I reckon it is too much to expeot him (or her) to take the pieces of the broken bottles home with him. After a few years the little home would become bo full of the mortal remains of these ' dead marines ' that every time anyone walked across the room bare-footed he would have to spend ten minutes extracting from his tootsies the odds and ends in glassware he had collected en route. And if the partner of his bosom should happen to leave a piece of wet soap where he could step on it, it would take a fortune in emollients and poultices to get all the glass out of him. This kind of thing puts a man against wanting to be a President's relation. I'd rather be a toad and live upon the vapours of a dun. geon — that is, until somebody invents a wooden glass bottle that won't break when you smash it.