A FEMININE COMFORTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9261, 8 January 1907, Page 6

A FEMININE COMFORTER.

There was never a time when Mrs Edward Simmons did not try hard to utter ft comforting words to any stray sufferer who crossed her path; but on each and every occasion she failed to make a perfect success of her attempt.

'You're looking so fagged out, my dear," she said to Miss Loomis, the minister's sister of uncertain age and neuT&lgic tendencies, after church one Sunday. "I suspect the caTe of your brother's family wears on you, not being as young as you — well, of course, none of us are, ' amd Mtb Simmons breathed heavily at her narrow escape.

It's a tooth," eaid Mass Loomifi, briefly, with heightened color. "The doctor says I must have it out. That's the second one this winter."

•Well, well, dear," and Mrs Simmons laid a soothing hand: on the suffereoc's a*m, "that can't happen many more times, you know, s» keep up your courage."