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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15920, 4 May 1912, Page 12

Tho wife, of an overworked company promoter said at breakfast i " Will you post chss letter for m», dear? It's to tho fnrrier, count*»v standing my order for that £IBO sabl{ and ermine' stole. You'll be sure ti. remember?" Tho tired eyes of th« harassed, shabby promoter lit up with joy. He seized a skipping-rope that lay with a heap of dolls and toys in a corner, and, going to his wife, said, "Here, tie my right hand to my lef* foot, so I won t forget!" A common Chinese talisman is tha " Hundred Families Lock," to procure which a father goes round among hi' friends, and, having obtained from ft hundred different parties a few of th« copper coins of tho country, himself adds tho balance, to purchase an orna. ment or appendage fashioned like a lock, which he hangs on his child's neck for the purpose of figuratively locking him to life and making the hundred persons concerned in his attaining old