WHICH PEARL?

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 265, 28 October 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHICH PEARL?

Mr. Alfred Lester, the English actor, tells a good story about a group of actors who were sitting in the Btnokenom of a provincial hotel. The little waitress xxho brought their drinks was par-ii-u'ari.v pretty, and some of t’ne younger men chaffed her a good deal a’aiiit the rosillexs of her cheeks and the gitldincss of her hair, cnsjitig doubts on their being tru« to Nature. “ What is your wm-:-” one of them asked. " Pear].” she reolied. flushing a little. "Pearl!” repented the actor. “What a prettv name. Ar.- v<m the pear] of great price ? The waitress's temper was beginning to -sliii its moorings bv this time. “No,” she reiilied tartly. “At prosent. I’m tin- u. nd iioior-- swine!” COLOUR ( HANGING PATNTR. Mem’-cr; >f tin- Phtsicrd Society in Lend m xvere gr-'-ntlv interested at a reel nt on et ini' Lx a a exh i lii t ion of specimens of naints whi-h change their co! onr witb variations of the temneiaturo. Ono of these nnint’-- is red at ordinary temperatures. Ini: turns black in a few sernnds when W'-rim-d in front of a stove or otlw-rxviso boated to 250 deg. Fahr. Anothir pmnt is yellow until I.rated to a t<iiiperaturo of 113 dog. Pohr.. when -t Lcrornes dark rod. l'ho» r.io called “ heat-indi'-ating paints,’’ hut nro little more than scientific curiosities.