LADY PUNTERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 6

LADY PUNTERS.

Trpuble v ove.r a Tote-Ticket.

Tfe sight of a couple" of women arguing over a tarnation tote ticket at the Oliristoliurob .Police Court lately is,' a nice commentary on latter-day femininity as compared'- with days of old.- T*be groat igam?l>li'ng- craze has invaded: a greats iiran-y / ii-opies,,- - -and tbepe.' ire plenty, pi hard-working men and msii whoidosi't do hard: woEk,, who don't dream that some of their earnings drift into toe totes.' They HVo m tho simple l (damned simple) faith that 'dear little wifie is ■ puttins;: by a little nes't-^l^g after paying <jhe 'household bills and getting her old frock re-frilled or re-tsurii-ed, or whatever you call it. They 'don't indulge m. ihie> spdnidl'e-l«^|s'ed variety, of sport themselves, but they are slow-4is 'slow as the oied'di>6s ttfieir wives (back. In .., Ghristdhuroh rciTHn.eroivs women slip out to the 'trots or to the raoes while their hubbies are at work (latter having • taken their ... dinmer, or din© in tow.».)>,; amd no ofre, tor those who see them on the course, are any the wiser. It is 'a species of duplicity 'that- is. constantly pract-isod.- . -At the -Metrop. 'grounds' the Ivdie's have a ; tafo to .themselves, bless you, and it , was at that show that Mrs Ellen Coo-toe- and/ Mrs Ann Penlingtan met, and ••th'ere was a sceivc. Mrs m C. alleges that she asked Mus P to. collect her divvy, and' she did collect it, and that when she didn't part up she called her a 'thief. At all events, Mrs P. avers •■ that she was. oall'Sd a thief. The id&fenda'nt sw-or-e thiat Mrs C's. div . was on! the shelf > and that she 'didn't, touch it at all- . The nag the ticket was on was Thicket, and he hadn't even <th ; o sense, to. run first, but second.. Bishop, S.M., doesn't piut a tanner on a race, himself, and he - apparently is of opinion that petticoats shouldn't, be fooling round racecourses looking' for . tips and things that aren't -tips nohow. He ain-imiad verted .on : tfoe fact that.' the time of the Court was taken up with such a trivial matter, and alludedUo a vulgar quarrel arising over the betting craze. They were married women-, ami married women coniM- /:«£ if 'tili'ey thpugftt proper, as it was '"respeotabtte," from a State point of view.- Both appe a t€d : to think J that they .were m the right, but he would give judgment for defendant, wifch,out 'costs- Mrs Cooke is tilie wife of a carrier, and Mrs .Penlin-giton the wife of a post office clerk,