A DELIGHTFUL DRINKERY!

NZ Truth, Issue 124, 2 November 1907, Page 6

A DELIGHTFUL DRINKERY!

A ChristcfiurcSi Snare for Fools and- iPlats. Where the Girls are Free and Frolicsome, hut Virtuous. Chattering tongues never cease. They go at the rate of knots, or thereabouts, when there is anything to gas about ; when there isn't it is just the same. Since "Truth" took up the hotel business m Christchurch—in the way of criticismbusy bodies, including the cold ice party, and the keyhole administrators of feminine rights, and the parsonical push have been making 'remarks. Well, "Truth" didn't know that they knew so much about hotels before"; but the ladies and gents of the lemonade brigade appear to know more than what we give them credit for. However, we happen to know this : that a great, many of these pious freaks of nature hold shares m brewery firms m Christchurch, If not m their own Dames, m those of relatives or brokers. We doirt blame 'em ; they are lucky to be able to put up the spons for shares. At any rate, they draw nice divs. and are happy. The inconsistency of the tiling is preaching one thing and practising another. While they yap prohibition m a feeble way they vole m the other and make cash out of it. These sinful coots have been making remarks about certain hotels m Christchuroh — hotels that they would like to see passed out because their particular businesses aren't interested m them— and they display as much knowledge as a two-year-old pup with a cattle-bell round his neck. It has been asserted by some individual who should have his tongue grooved that there is one ■drinkery that shouldn't be allowed to exist within the precincts of the city which has a.cathedral that blocks traffic and should <be shifted to the slums where it could do most work— and better work. Well, there are a goodly number of squash warehouses m the place and they are all well conducted, but there are some where the girls are light-hearted, FREE AND FROLICSOME ; ladies of various hues of eyes and different sizes of waists, and with a different capacity for frivolity and all that sort of thing. But nothingmore ; mind that ! There is one house m particular where a couple of lovesome lasses act Hebe and tolerate the idiosyncracies of dashing dudes ami dead-beats and others of that sort, and lead men of money on to the last possible extreme. Then the love-born lover wilts like a hyacinth. No matter what presents have been made by the foolish, fatuous fellows who fooled around with these artless damsels ; no matter how often they slippered ; how often they theatred ; how often they motor-carred ; how often they kissed, kuddled and kamped out together on the charming wastes of the river Avont— there was never any immorality. The girls took, and arc taking, dashed fine care of tliat. It is wonderful how a woman can kid a man on until the last moment and then laugh m his face. These girls m this unspecified hotel are famous (or notorious) for it m Christchurch. It is a fine art with ' them, an' 1 they do it so cleverly, and enter into the "take-down" spirit with such avidity and vivacity that the hotel's coffers arc filled to overflowing when mugs are about, AND DRINKS ARK PLENTIFUL, and compliments and love sweetmeats are being trailed over the premises until the dog tries to bite them and has to get himself registered as a foolish, six-months-old puppy. This pub is doing tolerably well, and the girls are doing excellently, and the 1 , guests are on good terms with them- \ selves, and the proprietor doesn't ■ mind a dash; j^