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New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9247, 14 January 1916, Page 2

"It is only a question of time when the suffragists will sweep the country." "Nonsense! Not half of tbem know now to handle a broom." 'i "Pa, whit's '«• struggling author?" "A struggling author is usually a fellow that does very little authoring .but a great deal of struggling." ; Old Eraud: "And after floating about on the spar for three days, I was finally washed ashore, sir." Gent (unimpressed ): "Ah 1 and it wouldn' t hurt you to be washed ashore again, either." Many are the vicissitudes through wiuoa jmglishmen pass on their pilgrimage to the House of Commons, and in the opinion of a contributor none is so annoying as the "voice" from the back of the hall- It is dreaded by even tke most. experienced" campaigner. Not long ago, following the present fashion of boasting of your fiumble origin and early struggles, a prospective M.P. referred to the. hardships of .his yontb. "How did I make my way in the world?" he askedithe-audience. ''lgot my start in~hfe "by serving in a grocery shop at twelve shillings a week, and yet I managed to save." "Was that before cash registers were invented?" asked the inexorable "voice." The -orator wisely decided to join, in the general langn. FLUENZOL