AN ACTOR'S PRACTICAL JOKE.

North Otago Times, 6 August 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ACTOR'S PRACTICAL JOKE.

■ ■■-.—.t, An actor's powers qT disguise- ri'iid mimicry are admirably adapted to practical jokes. A well-known, comedian. relates the story of how '' .he': threw his newly-engaged housemaid .into a slate of consternation by the following prank :- a Disguised, as an. old gentleman-he. knocked at the door of his house,, and was admitted .by the servant, who showed ■■ hi in into -a reception: room while he went to fetch . her mistress.

In the interval the actor rapidly changed his costume, and darting from the. house., by the back, way. reappeared at. the;-. front door, this, time in the character.of. a,seedy, man who wished to see the " missus " on important . business,: ami was: bidden to wait.

Another rapid change in, the. absence of the servant, and this time the opening of the street -door, in response . to : vigorous 1 knocking ro- ; venied a sea-captain, .who also wish-ed.-to sec the lady of the house. Then in (prick, succession came a legal gentleman ;\viih a.black bag and a ..young exquisite .with a lisp and a simper. ■

The fuce of the servant when she discovered subsequently that all the visitors had vanished mysteriously, find that tho only;.occupant of tho recoptioiHoom wftfj her. master calmly smoking his. pipe, was a comical sight,

'J lie wings of a lly are used with gicat (|uickui'ss, and probably 600 strokes are made per second. This would carry tiie fly abotit 215 ft.; but <i sneii-iold ulout\ can be attaint d making 17 r >lt pu second so that under certain.circumstances the little ..creature can outstrip a race-horse. ■ —»ti— 'i he safest remedy for chapped hands consists in keeping the hands wiiipiilouslj dij, and gi easing them once in a while, with ,an anhydrous latt\ substntue (not .old 110.1111) Well -adapted lor this purpose is wax Mihe (olive oil seven parts atiti ;vollow \\.ax three parts), or pure olive Oil.

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