HARRY WAS SO HUNGRY.
"Ever since the -girls hav-e -known of my - engagement," Ethel- confided to a friend:, ' "they have been, prophesying -that I -won't 'know how to te&p Louse on Fxani's small ' salary, because I have never had to practise economy ait home. lam going- to . show 'them, that I can learn to practise it," _ and she tilted Jier pretty chin in the .air. "I intend to ask them to dine with me before I am -married, and I will ccok the ' dinner for them myself. Prom a .number , of menus which I have found in the now • magazine, 'Economy, a Pine Art,' I will , choose one, 'A Course Costing Only One "Dollar.' It includes everything from coup < to dessert and coffee ; that, is, the -editor of the magazine says it need cost no no ore , if the instructions for marketing are care- . fully followed." ''1 am just dying to tjome "to that dinner," laugb-edi the friend. "Do have it soon, and invite me." Put upon her mettle, the bride-to-be sent out five invitations for the dinner, which were promptly accepted, says the New York Times. The day arrived, and- with all the guests but one. The. dinner was en t>/»e, as were the diners. A chorus of voices ' expressed (regret at- the unavoidable absence of one of the number. The experiment required the presence ot six at table, m the hostess placed! her young brother in the vacant chair. At the^ conclusion of the repast, Ethel, excited and triumphant at the praise showered upon her by her admiring friends, bade au revoir to her smiling guests as they took their departure*, with satisfaction at the Tesult of her effort. Stifled sobs •from the region of the dining room drew her attention. Entering, she saw the figure
of the small boy who had taken the place of the absent guest at the dinner table, lying face downward upon th-e floor. "Harry," she cried in alarm, "-.vhat is the matter with you?"
"Oh," was the wailing response, "1 am 6O hungry ."
Thp shipping- trade of Wellington now equals 4-1 per cent, of that of the Clyde.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2651, 4 January 1905, Page 67
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