ONE BETTER

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 08, 8 October 1908, Page 38

ONE BETTER

1 Madame,' briskly spoke up the gent, in the check suit, when the lady- of the house appeared at the door, ' I have here an invaluable invention for daily domestic-use — a combination of useful utensils no housekeeper should be without, combining, as it does, in one compact tool, a corkscrew, a paper-cutter, a "tinopener, a nut pick, a bodkin, a shoe-buttoner, a '

'No, thank you,' she answered curtly ; ' I have all the hairpins I need.' The next moment the door" was slammed in his face.