IN MAN'S CLOTHES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 September 1934, Page 5

IN MAN'S CLOTHES.

WOMAN’S DECEPTION

ATTENDED SMOKE CONCERT,

With her Eton crop brushed neatly back and a pair of tortoishell glasses to help her disguise, a young lady attended the annual reunion in Auckland of members of a well-known Southern secondary school on a recent Saturday evening. The reunion took the form of a smoke concert, and the lady was correctly attired in a well-fitting lounge suit.

The masquerade was suecesfully carried through, and even to-day there are some of the Old Boys who are still ignorant of the fact that for three hours their ranks contained a member of the opposite sex. “I remember a rather cissy looking chap who sat opposite me,'* said an Auckland man the next .morning. “His hair was black and well greased, and he wore glasses, but I did not pay particular attention to him. He smoked cigarettes and I don't know that he offered any objection when the steward filled up his glass. The uninvited guest, it is understood, was a Wellington girl who recenly married a professional man practising north of Auckland. (Her husband, an old boy of the school, was also present and apparently was a little worried by his conscience as the evening progressed for he whispered his secret to a friend. Apparently the husband and the friend decided that no harm would be done in allowing the masquerade to continue, for-the young lady was still in her seat whCn the last speech of the evening was made. Incidontly the usual wide range of smoke concert “stories" were told,-although it is not on record that the lady contributed to that side of the entertainment.