She Got It Nearly Warm.

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 79

She Got It Nearly Warm.

When the thermometer had dropped far below zero good' Mrs Rogers was much disturbed at the recollection that Huldah, the new kitchen-maid, slept in an unheated room. ''Huldah," site said, remembering the good old custom of her own girlhood, "it's going to be pretty cold to-night. I think you had bett-ej take a flat-iron to bed with you." "Yes. ma'am," said Huldah, in mild and expressionless assent. Mrs Rogers slept soundly and free fiom care, secure in the belief that the maid was comfortable.. In the morning she again visited the kitchen. '•Well, Huldah." she askod, "how did you get along with the flat-iron?" Huldah brtathed a deep sigh of recollection. "W-ell. ma'am," she said. "I got it nearly warm before morning !'' Alec and His Brokeu Idol. It is impossible 3 pleaee everybody. Fortunately this is so well known that

nobody wastes much times in trying. When I would not let John pay' for my luncheon the other day at a restaurant where he happened to be lunching as wall, he said: ] "What kir.d of people do live amotJgst j that you wont let a man do these little j things fa" you? You wo.ldn't even let me pay~your cab." We had met at the door. The very next day Alec came to tea, and on being asked as to his latest love affairs — he always has some on — he said: "I had to drop that girl you saw me with at Sandown". She was too expensive. One day when we were lunching together she split her glove, and we went in a hansom to Bond street to buy another pair. The man behind the counter put them on for her — such a performance 1 H-a put a cushion for her elbow while he worked an the glove, and then s-he held her arm out for him to get the thing up over her elbow and to reach the sleeve and tuck it under. It was 20 minutes' .. hard work for the beggar. " 'Whait price?' asiked my lady: „ „, " 'Twelve and sixpence a pair, madam.' " 'Put up a dozen pair and send them to JJjis address.' • f Then, turning to me. she said : 'They are such nioa" kid and fit so well. Have you enough change with you?' I paid, of course. She hardly thanked and a^ we walked along Bond street she said, 'Could you get a box at Daly's Theatre? We could make a party "cd three or four and enjoy 'Th-a Little Michus."' t "I got a pry ale box, and what do you thank? She Drought another man, and talked to him the whole evening. There trere just -the three of us, and I --had to sit by and watch them flirt." I "And you had paid for the box?"" "Of course. I • didn't mind that, but I could have kicked the other fellah. Well. I chucked the lady soon after, but not till -she had got a cable 'tie' out of -Inc. She said she was cold, having dressed for a warm day, and found a bitter cold wind. Then we passed % a shop where nice-'ooking chocolates were in the window. She admired them and wont in. Altogether, she carried off with her in her hansom that afternoon tlie beat -parrt of a teimer of mine."

Poor 'Alec! His idols fall around him. He is for ever setting up a fresh one and then crying, "The great erod J Dagon js fallen, is fallen." — "Madge,"~in Truth.