IN BOHEMIA.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 426, 8 July 1913, Page 7

IN BOHEMIA.

Mr George R. Sims tells two amusing stories of the Bohemia of his younger days. "At one club I belonged to there was a notice posted m the smoking room requesting members not to order hot Buppers after 5 o'clock m the morning. At the same club I once lost my purse with eighteenpence m it, and the waiter who afterwards returned it to me remarked that it was fortunate the purse had not been found by one of the other membe. iS s Mr Sims also recalls the financial ton., dition of these members of old-timo Bohemian society, Avho, he said, were not over particular if their weekly expenses sometimes exceeded the weekly income. They had occasional acquaintance with the law, but only a passing acquaintance with banks. He remembered a friend once . receiving an open cheque for £50 from a publisher, and six of them accompanied him to the i bank to cash it. When the cashier I asked: "How will you take it, sir?" j the friend replied: "Oh, that's all right, old chap, we have got a cab outside."—From ' The Tatler.'