MORAL FOR HUSBANDS.
A happy "bachelor party" , held by a ii\il m-rvant ami his closest friends at j Prague lias resulted in ait unusual ! claim for damages against his fellow j revellers. On the morning after the I party lie awoke with a violent headache, and a. vague feeling that there was something lie must not forget to do that day. Slowly he remembered what it was: he had to meet his wife at the station. He bed been celebrating her absence with friends of his bachelor days, at the previous evening's party. His wife noticed that people stared at them on their way home from the j station. Then, seeing what was on the , back of her husband's coat, she made J him take it off and carry it the rest of the way. On the coat 'was written in red chalk: 'I'm drunk to-night, but 1 shan't be tomorrow when jiiy old woman comes back." The unlucky husband ie now suing hie boon companions for exposing him to "public ridicule,"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 17
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172MORAL FOR HUSBANDS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 17
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