THE RETORT AMBIGUOUS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 473, 3 April 1909, Page 10

THE RETORT AMBIGUOUS.

It is extraordinary how diffident some people aro in asking you wliero you liave bought a certain thing they admire (says an English writer), and, more extraordinary still, how extremely diffident soino people aro—not! I never mind telling auyono whore

I have bought an article, or ioyud a. recipe, or seen tho very thing my ;ncighbour may want; but I seldom recommend a thing if I am not actually asked to do so, because what may suit mo may not suit thorn, and, if you recommend your-pet play, or your pet book, or your dressmaker, or evori ; your pot dish, you may find that, "what is ona mail's meat is another man's poison!" I (Cdd a neat retort made by a lady to a person who considered herself of vory. great, social importance, and who said, condescendingly, "My dear, what a very charming gown! Do tell mo whoro you bought it ?" Tho reply was given with disarming sweetness: , "I bought it from —or —let mo see, oh! yes, I remember; I bought it at a shop—just opposite a lamp-post!"