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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 715, 14 January 1910, Page 3

; Only one couple in 11,500 hvo to celebrate a diamond wedding. ' .■ ,' "Do -you'* know, Mary, that . we are spending every: cent. I earn ?" :' "Well, I don't see -why,•you; should complain. . All the other people:in .our set- are spending a good: deal moro than they earn. What's the use being so penurious?" ■ Many friends .of .the family calledto congratulate' the'elder daughter, who in her year's work at the university had simply romped through her* arts course.. Tea had-to be fnrnished to the callers, and- the asked the maid ,to bring; it at once. "But the kettle is not; boiling,; Miss Marie." "Oh; 1 - don't bother about that," said; the ;student . "The water will be quite as;hot ■:as' |we /like ..it .for" our tea.?-; ,' ; '' .' ffistress- : -''Now, l ',' remember, Bridget, the Jonses are 'coming .to ■ dinner .tonight" Cook—"Leavo it to. me, mum. I'll do my worst! They'll never trouble you again." • ' .