Though she was old, she wasn't by any means incapable or supporting herself, and nt the fresh, youthful age of 79 she went into the business of providing teas for perspiring cyclists, and storing the cycles of those travellers who decided that they had better return by train. Her first customers wero four young men who' left their cycles in her charge while they explored tho neighbourhood. For oach cycle she.gave them a ticket with a number upon it. Late at night the tourists returned. The old woman led them to their cycles with a sm'ile of self-satisfaction on her face. "You'll know which is which," she told them, "because I've fastened duplicate tickets on them." They gratefully thanked her, and when they found their cycles they discovered that the tickets were uea'tly pinned into each back tyre I
Tho negroes at Camp Dodge drafted into the National Army from Alabama wore overjoyod at the amount of equipment they were given. One of them was talking to a white soldier about it. "Say, boss," he asked, "do dey give us all dese clothes for liuthin,' without payin'. for dem? An' all dese eats three times a day, an' a good bed, an' all dem blankets?" Ho was told that Undo Sam gives them all 'those things. "Well den, why in Sam Hill didn't dis wall staht soonnh?"
Tho Camp Commandant ;>cknowledges with thanks tho undermentioned gifts to the Camp Hospital: Mrs. Holmes Warren, Featherston, eggs; Salvation Army, Featherston, sweets and handkerchiefs; Wairarapa Hospital Committee, Masterton, illustrated papers; Mrs. John Martin, Waiura, Maryborough, 1 ense of eggs.
At the Art Gallery, Whitmore Street, on October 23, at 8 p.m., an exhibition of Australasian photographs will commence, under the auspices of the Wellington Amateur Photographic Society. Call ami be shown or write and be told everythinjr. in connection with your hair, face, and skin. Ailments are ninny but thero is help for .von nil. Miss Milsom's Ion? connection with this very Miciitific profusion has mndo her name famous far and wide. She helps those with healthy hnir and skin to keep them healthy ns well ns those who want her help. The establishment for modern iininvork. All hair orders promnfly nttended to. Miss Jlilsom, 94 Willis St. 'Phone 81t.-Advt. J,ily of the Vnijev— that dainty, faseinn\\ne (lower which recoils enchanting drennie of weddings-is now coming in. Order your bounuet in qood time. Miss Murray's. Vice-Regal Florists, 36 Willis Street.'—Advt. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, For Cougliß and Colds, nover fails,*
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 21, 19 October 1918, Page 4
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