"DRY" AWAKENING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

"DRY" AWAKENING.

LOST HUSBAND COMEDY.

ASLEEP ALL DAT Ef HOTEL BATE.

Mrs. M., who, with her husband* via doing the rounds of the Parisian entertainments, telephoned early one afternoon to the hall porter of the hotel in which they were staying to inquire whether he had seen her husband that day. The concierge had not, and said so.

At 5 o'clock the lady telephoned again. "I can't think what has become of him," she said. "Telephone to the cafes he usually frequents, and ask if he has been seen there." But neither at Fouquet's nor at Charley's, could any news be obtained of Mr. M.

By 8 p.m. his wife became seriously uneasy. "You had better notify his disappearance to the police;" she said to her concierge, and, ordering some champagne to be sent up to her, she prepared to await events, further fortified by the presence of a few friends who had rallied round her.

But the hotel porter is accustomed to disappearing husbands, and refrained from disturbing the police. At 10 p.m. the telephone rang once more. It was Mrs. M. again. "I have found my husband," she cried. "He is here." He had, in fact, been found in the bath, where he had spent the day in a profound sleep. Fortunately, there was, as often happens, a slight leak in the apparatus, and, so, when * discovered j he was lying in a place as dry as his i | native land.